Algerian opposition and pro-democracy lawyer Zoubida Assoul has announced that she will run for the presidential...
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Agriculture: Spanish farmers say Moroccan strawberries carry virus, as Morocco surpasses Spain as tomato supplier to EU
Agriculture is the theater of another kind of war where there are winners and losers. Worth billions of dollars, the...
Bloody Sunday: The indiscriminate killing of Muslim and Catholic worshipers in Burkina Faso
Sunday, 25 February was a bloody day for religious groups in Burkina Faso. Two attacks against a church and a mosque...
Algeria: All-out repression as military regime seeks to impose unpopular status quo
Algiers, Oct 8, 2019 - Algerian police Tuesday prevented a weekly protest by students in the capital for the first...
Sahel: Conflict with Jihadists expands to southwest Niger
Niamey, Oct 7, 2019 - Two soldiers were killed and five others wounded in a "terrorist" attack in southwest Niger, a...
Tunisia: Negotiations to form new government underway after election failed to produce single winning party
Tunis, Oct 7, 2019 (AFP) - Tunisia's parliamentary elections held on Sunday appear to have failed to forge a clear...
Algeria: Regime finds no helper, unable to replace PM Bedoui
The Algerian military command and its civilian allies (the regime) are reported to be unable to find a prime minister...
Sahel: Mali president Boubacar Keita dismisses coup speculation
Bamako, Oct 6, 2019 - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Sunday rejected as speculation talk of a military...
Tunisia: Legislative elections underway
Tunis, Oct 6, 2019 (By Caroline Nelly Perrot) - Tunisians go to the polls Sunday for the third parliamentary polls of...
Egypt: Tension escalates with Ethiopia over Nile dam
Cairo, Oct 6, 2019 - Egypt has urged international mediation over what it called "deadlock" in talks in Sudan over a...
Libya: As the war for Tripoli drags on, the Libyan capital is in disarray
Tripoli, Oct 3, 2019 - Faraj al-Doukali hastened to unload the dozens of rubbish bags from his van onto a sidewalk...
Sahel: France wants to drag Europe into a conflict with no endgame
France has begun asking its European partners to send special forces to Mali and other Sahel nations in Africa, to...
Western Sahara: The forgotten conflict that is likely to perdure
United Nations, United States, Oct 3, 2019 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he hopes to maintain the...
Tunisia: Alleged lobbying contract by Nabil Karoui guarantees election victory of Kais Saied
Tunis - The publication by US authorities of a $1-million international lobbying contract to promote a jailed...
Egypt: Fear of more unrest prompts Sisi government to lower fuel prices
Cairo, Oct 4, 2019 - Egypt lowered fuel prices on Friday, the oil ministry said, following several rounds of price...
Algeria: West silent at arbitrary arrests and human rights abuses in Algeria
The west has had a great deal of sympathizing for the struggle of the people of Hong Kong. There has been an uproar...
Algeria: Forced election will destabilize the Mediterranean region
By Arezki Daoud - 4 October 2019: The Algerian political crisis is in its 33rd week with no sign of any of the...
Algeria: Military command plays its last card, political crisis reaching its climax
By Arezki Daoud - 1 October 2019: This is make-or-break moment for Algerian military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah...
Sahel: Intense fighting between insurgents and Mali army in Mopti
Oct 1, 2019 - A large contingent of Malian troops, backed by air support, fought Tuesday with jihadist fighters who...
Tunisia: Presidential candidate Nabil Karoui still in jail
Tunis, Sept 27, 2019 - One of two presidential candidates to have won through to a runoff election in Tunisia has...
Libya: US kills suspected IS insurgents in raid on Libya
The US military command for Africa announced Friday it killed 17 suspected Islamic State group jihadists in southern...
Egypt: Online warfare rages as pro and anti-Sisi clans fight with same intensity
Cairo, Sept 26, 2019 (By Mona Salem) - Rival hashtags, angry videos and calls to march -- the war for Egyptian minds...
Egypt: Grim picture in Egypt as military seeks to contain unrest
Cairo, Sept 25, 2019 - Egyptian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people, rights groups said Wednesday,...
Algeria: The rise and fall of a criminal- Head of disgraced FLN party, Mohamed Djemai is now in jail
Mohamed Djemai, the recently imposed head of the disgraced nationalist party FLN, and member of parliament...
Egypt: Journalist Mahmoud Hussein still jailed in Egypt for 1,000th days
Doha, Qatar, Sept 19, 2019 - Qatar's Al-Jazeera broadcaster marked 1,000 days on Thursday since its producer Mahmoud...
Algeria: Frightened of popular revolt, military junta chief Gaid Salah bans access to Algiers
By Amal Belalloufi - Algeria's military has ordered police to block protesters from outside the capital entering...
Algeria: Military junta arrests opposition activist Fodil Boumala
Algiers, Sept 19, 2019 - An Algerian court on Thursday ordered the pre-trial detention of a leading figure in protests...
Tunisia: Former dictator Ben Ali dies in Saudi Arabia
While the Tunisian people are preparing to chose their new president, former dictator from 1987 to 2011, Zine El...
Libya: Two killed in drone strike in Sirte, raid on Mitiga airport
Tripoli, Sept 16, 2019 - Drone strikes on Libya's coastal town of Sirte killed two pro-unity government fighters and...
From bad to worse: life after the ordeal of Libya
Benin City, Nigeria, Sept 17, 2019 (Sophie Bouillon) - Emerging from her ordeal, Gloria considers herself...
Tunisia election authority confirms Nabil Karoui and Kais Saied for presidential runoff vote
Tunis, Sept 17, 2019 - Tunisia's electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a presidential runoff vote will pit...
Algerians respond to military junta: thanks but no election!
Algiers, Sept 17, 2019 - Protesters massed in the Algerian capital on Tuesday to demand the cancellation of a...
Tunisia: First round of presidential election sees rise of outsiders
Tunis, Sept 16, 2019 - Political outsider Kais Saied was leading Tunisia's elections with just over a quarter of votes...
Tunisia: First round of presidential election ends with uncertainty and low turnout
Tunis, Sept 15, 2019 (By Caroline Nelly Perrot) - Two anti-establishment candidates in Tunisia's divisive election...
Algerian regime challenges pro-democracy movement, announces election date
Algiers, Sept 15, 2019 - Algeria is to hold a presidential election on December 12, five months into a political...
Tunisia: Tunisians brace for elections this Sunday in an unusual political environment
Tunisia will hold on Sunday its second free presidential election by universal suffrage since the 2011 uprising that...
Sahel: Chad in the grip of violence and inter-communal clashes
Chad's parliament on Tuesday extended by three months a state of emergency in three eastern regions hit by rebel...
Sahel: Destruction and escalating death toll in flooded Niger
Deadly floods across Niger have left 57 people dead and affected more than 130,000 since they began in June, according...
Sahel: Clash near Goundam in Mali leaves three dead
A Malian soldier was killed and seven others injured in an ambush by gunmen on Wednesday in the northern Timbuktu...
Algeria: Military kidnaps popular opposition figure Karim Tabou, says he “demoralizes the army”
Opposition leader Karim Tabou was forcefully taken away on Wednesday, 11 September in early afternoon by unidentified...
Algeria: Justice administration wants immunity of notorious member of parliament Tliba lifted
Baha Eddine Tliba, the billionaire member of the Algerian parliament representing the eastern city of Annaba appears...
Egypt: Actor Mohamed Aly flees to Spain, accuses Sisi and military of corruption
Cairo, Sept 9, 2019 - Videos posted online by an Egyptian construction contractor accusing President Abdel Fattah...
Tunisia: Islamist party Ennahdha version 2.0
By Caroline Nelly Perrot - Chastened by its early experiences of holding power in post-revolution Tunisia,...