By Arezki Daoud: France is experiencing an unprecedented backlash in the Sahel and in West Africa. Disastrous...
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Mali: Al Qaeda attacks rebel convoy in the Ouagadou forest
By MondAfrique: A column of armed vehicles from the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), the Touareg rebel coalition...
Niger and Algeria recall their ambassadors over undocumented migrants
The authorities in Niger summoned the Algerian ambassador Bekhadda Mehdi on 2 April, over Algeria’s treatment of...
Libya: Increase of migrant departures from Libya, Europe returns them
Geneva, Jan 14, 2020 - Heavy clashes have spurred a growing exodus of migrants from Libya, but nearly 1,000...
Podcast: The Libyan crisis is getting more complex
The discussion on Libya that follows was recorded on the 10 of January. The discussion between MEA Risk’s Arezki Daoud...
Sahel: People of Mali want foreign troops out
Bamako, Jan 10, 2020 - Hundreds of people in Mali on Friday protested against the presence of foreign troops in their...
Podcast: Algeria risk assessment: the intersection of business and political corruption
In this episode, Arezki Daoud of risk assessment firm MEA Risk LLC and editor of the North Africa Journal, looks at...
Sahel: Massacre in Niger’s Tillaberi region
Niamey, Jan 12, 2020 - A jihadist attack on a military camp in western Niger three days ago left 89 soldiers dead,...
Sahel: Roadside bomb kills five soldiers in Mali
Bamako, Jan 6, 2020 (AFP) - Five Malian soldiers were killed Monday in a roadside bomb attack, a government...
Libya: Dangerous military buildup in Libya
Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar announced this morning (Monday, 6 January) his troops entered the coastal city of Sirte...
Libya: Warlord Khalifa Haftar’s raid on military school in residential area kills at least 28
Tripoli, Jan 4, 2020 - At least 28 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday in an air strike on a military...
Algeria: A new government cabinet that fails to impress
Newly appointed president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced his first government cabinet, which comprises 39 members,...
Sahel: Mystery about disappearance of civilians in Mali
Bamako, Dec 30, 2019 - Malian authorities and the United Nations have opened investigations into the alleged...
Algerian regime releases prominent political prisoners, seeks to ease public pressure
Well-known independence war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa, was released from jail on 2 January 2020. He had been detained...
Algeria: While new Prime Minister speaks of restoring “confidence,” regime continues to repress
Algiers, Dec 27, 2019 - The director of an Algerian internet radio station has been placed in pre-trial detention...
Algeria: New prime minister with academic credentials hired to perform miracles
Algiers, Dec 28, 2019 - Algeria's new president on Saturday named as his prime minister an academic turned political...
Moroccan regime confirms its zero tolerance to free speech
Rabat, Dec 26, 2019 - A Moroccan YouTuber (see photo) was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for "insulting...
The cost of a civil war, tens of thousands of Libyans flee their homes
Tripoli, Dec 27, 2019 (By Nawas Al-Darraji) - Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children's belongings...
Algeria: Hirak anti-regime movement continues for 45th week
Algiers, Dec 27, 2019 - Tens of thousands of Algerians demonstrated Friday for the second consecutive week since the...
Sahel: France escalates anti-insurgent offensive in Mali
Paris, Dec 23, 2019 - France's armed forces said Monday they had carried out a drone strike for the first time, during...
Algeria: Death of a tyrant and a country facing uncertainty
Opinion by Arezki Daoud | Even Hollywood could not have come up with such a dramatic script. The head of the Algeria...
Sahel: Roadside-bomb attacks kill four in Mali
Bamako, Dec 20, 2019 - Two soldiers and two civilians have been killed and another six people injured in separate...
Regime in Algeria faces insurmountable wall, population rejects presidential appointee
Algiers, Dec 20, 2019 - Algerian demonstrators on Friday rejected a call for dialogue by the country's new president,...
Algeria: Tebboune sworn in as president, faces insurmountable challenges
Algiers, Dec 19, 2019 - Establishment insider Abdelmadjid Tebboune was sworn in Thursday as Algeria's new president, a...
Algerians back to the street, reject dialogue with new President Tebboune
Algiers, Dec 17, 2019 - Students, teachers and other demonstrators rallied in their thousands in Algeria's capital...
Algeria: With its Algeria venture CEO in prison over alleged corruption, Volkswagen suspends production in Algeria
Carmaker Volkswagen has suspended production in Algeria, where the head of its local partner has been detained since...
Sahel: Insurgency and criminal activity in the Sahel
Criminal activities such as arms and drug trafficking are crucial to the survival of jihadist groups in the Sahel,...
Sahel: Niger gets military equipment from US
Niamey, Dec 10, 2019 - The United States is donating $21 million (19 million euros) of military equipment to Niger...
Libya: French oil company Total to buy Marathon Oil’s stake in Libya’s Waha oil concessions
Libya's National Oil Corporation said Tuesday it had agreed to let French oil giant Total buy US outfit Marathon Oil's...
Algeria: Ongoing rallies expose failure of the Algerian regime’s election drive
Hundreds of thousands of people, including large numbers of students demonstrated on Tuesday, Dec.10 in Algiers and...
Egyptian opponent abroad, Mohamed Ali, sentenced by Sisi court to jail in absentia
Cairo, Dec 10, 2019 - A self-exiled Egyptian businessman and dissident who has accused President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...
Algeria: Former officials sentences to jail, protesters unmoved as battle against military regime rages
Algiers, Dec 10, 2019 - An Algerian court sentenced two former prime ministers to long jail terms Tuesday in the first...
Algerian diaspora rejects presidential election, observers report empty poling stations
The Algerian diaspora was supposed to vote this past weekend. But in Western nations, Algerian diplomatic missions...
Algerian regime increases attacks on pro-democracy activists and opponents over the Internet
Dec 8, 2019, By Salsabil Chellali: Social networks set alight the months-long protest movement against Algeria's...
Algeria: Crunch time for the Algerian military rulers, disaster looms, says MEA Risk LLC
Analysts at MEA Risk LLC have looked at the situation in Algeria and see no positive outcome from next week's...
Human Rights Watch decries the violence of the Algerian government
Algerian authorities are cracking down on the protest movement known as “the Hirak,” which opposes holding the...
Algerian people send strong rebuke to military rulers, massive rallies to reject elections
A vast crowd rallied in Algiers on the final Friday before a contentious presidential election many see as an elite...
Mauritania: Disaster at sea, scores of Europe-bound migrants drown off the coast of Nouadhibou
Nouakchott, Dec 5, 2019 - At least 58 migrants trying to reach Europe from West Africa died as their makeshift boat...
Algeria: Pitiful diplomacy in full display: when European ambassadors meet a rogue presidential candidate
Version française By Arezki Daoud - Editorial for 4 December 2019: It’s no secret that one of the top jobs of an...
Tunisia: Unrest in Jelma, Sidi Bouzid
Tunis, Dec 3, 2019 - Eleven Tunisians were arrested during a night of clashes between protesters and police in the...
Libya: Civilians killed in air strikes on Tripoli, authorities say UAE drones used
Tripoli, Dec 2, 2019 - At least five civilians were killed and 10 wounded in overnight air strikes in a suburb of...
Morocco: Another tragedy on North Africa roads, 17 killed in bus crash near Taza
Rabat, Dec 2, 2019 - A bus crash in northern Morocco killed 17 people as the vehicle overturned, the health ministry...
Libya: Scores of migrants saved from drowning off the coast of Zawiyah
Libya's navy said Saturday it had rescued 205 migrants in an operation off the coast of Tripoli. The rescue took place...