(Photo from unconfirmed video showing an insurgent burning the presidential plane in Bamako. The person filming the...
(Photo from unconfirmed video showing an insurgent burning the presidential plane in Bamako. The person filming the...
With dense ties to West Africa, Morocco now has its first Mpox case, identified in the tourism city of Marrakech. This...
On Tuesday, 17 September 2024, Bamako, the capital of Mali, was the target of coordinated attacks claimed by the JNIM....
Algeria's president on Sunday ordered an "immediate" investigation into forest fires that have ravaged thousands of...
The UN's mission in Libya has voiced "dismay" at the sentencing of a journalist to 15 years in prison in the country's...
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), fellow journalists and rights groups called Thursday for Algerian...
Repressive Arab regimes are taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to crack down on the opposition, freedom of...
North Africa Journal: On 29 July 2020, President Tebboune dismissed the Minister of Labor, Employment and Social...
Mali's opposition on Wednesday reiterated calls for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign, again spurning a...
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday ratified a law banning active and former military personnel from...
Brussels, July 29, 2020 - The EU is to reimpose travel restrictions on Algeria, diplomats said Wednesday, after a...
Lampedusa, Italy, July 29, 2020 - Italy's coast guard said on Wednesday it had rescued nearly 100 migrants on a "half...
Skhirat, Morocco, July 29, 2020 - Moroccan farmer Hamid had pinned his hopes on selling his sheep for the Eid al-Adha...
Thousands of migrants have died after suffering "extreme" abuse while crossing Africa, according to a UN report on...
Cairo, July 28, 2020 - Egypt has executed seven people over the killing of a police officer in the northeastern city...
Tripoli, July 28, 2020 - Three Sudanese migrants were killed in a shooting in Libya after the country's coast guard...
A protest movement that has sprung up in Mali, shaking President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's grip on power, on Tuesday...
Dozens of migrants escaped quarantine in Sicily Monday, a day after nearly 200 others fled a separate holding facility...
Morocco's roads and transport hubs saw chaotic scenes after authorities announced snap movement restrictions affecting...
The cumulative confirmed infections of Covid-19 in the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and...
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced five female social media influencers to two years in jail each on charges of...
Around 100 migrants fleeing war-ravaged Libya have run into difficulty in the Mediterranean and could drown, the UN...
Libya's UN-recognised government has disavowed a visit by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, a champion of the...
Washington, July 24, 2020 - Russia continues to supply a broad range of arms to Libyan rebels including fighter jets,...
Turkey accused third parties of carrying out "doomed initiatives" to make ground in Libya's conflict on Wednesday, as...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday denounced what he called Turkey's "violation" of the sovereignty of...
North Africa Journal's editor's note: Although this case is on ENI's alleged corruption case in Nigeria, ENI's...
Egypt's military said it killed 18 suspected Islamist militants in aerial and ground operations in the restive North...
Bamako, July 23, 2020 - West African leaders gathered in Bamako on Thursday in a fresh push to end an escalating...
Barcelona, July 21, 2020 - Cairo is seeking the extradition from Spain of an Egyptian businessman and dissident, the...
Niamey, July 21, 2020 - Heavy floods in Niger have claimed nine lives and destroyed more than 2,000 homes , affecting...
Rabat, July 20, 2020 - A Moroccan court has ordered that the chief editor of Moroccan independent daily Akhbar...
Beirut, July 20, 2020 - At least 14 prisoners have died from likely COVID-19 complications in scantly-monitored...
Bamako, July 20, 2020 - Malian leaders are gearing up for more mediation talks on Thursday, when four African...
Libyan businessman Mahmud al-Sharkassi surveyed the ruins of his factory on the outskirts of war-scarred capital...
Wandering Cairo's bustling streets, Zeinab was struggling to survive by selling tissues when the coronavirus left her...
Khartoum, July 19, 2020 - Sudanese forces arrested around 160 people on the border with Libya who were en-route to the...
Algiers, July 18, 2020 - A former Algerian cabinet minister detained in a corruption case has died from the COVID-19...
Algiers, July 18, 2020- Algeria said Saturday that the coronavirus crisis on top of falling oil prices have caused...
In this brief podcast recorded on 17 July 2020, MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud provides an update on what we are seeing...
Cairo, July 16, 2020 - Egypt's president said Thursday that his country "will not stand idle" against threats to the...
El-Kamour, Tunisie, July 16, 2020 - Hundreds of protesters on Thursday forced their way into an oil production site in...
Bamako, July 15, 2020 - The Malian opposition alliance that demands President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita step down has...