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Morocco: Journalist Hajar Raissouni sent to jail for “illegal abortion”
Rabat, Sept 30, 2019 - Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail...
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...
Algeria: Military court sentences former political and intelligence chiefs after only a one-day trial
Algiers, Sept 25, 2019 (AFP) - An Algerian military court has sentenced the brother of former president Abdelaziz...
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,...
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...
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: Protests over bad roads continue in Mali
Bamako, Sept 11, 2019 (By Maīmouna Moro) - Like many of his fellow Malians, Ousmane Maiga used to drive regularly...
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...
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,...
Thousands of Aigle Azur passengers stranded as Air France makes offer to acquire collapsed airline
Sept 9, 2019 - French flag carrier Air France on Monday offered to snap up its much smaller rival Aigle Azur after the...
Morocco: Flood overturns bus in Errachidia, 17 killed
Rabat, Sept 9, 2019 - At least 17 people were killed in Morocco when flood waters overturned their bus in the...
Tunisia: Jailed presidential candidate Nabil Karoui on the campaign ‘trail by proxy’
Arrested just weeks before Tunisia's September 15 presidential polls, candidate Nabil Karoui has hit the campaign...
Morocco: Female journalist and others arrested for alleged ‘abortion’
Rights groups urged Moroccan authorities on Friday to immediately release a journalist arrested on charges of having...
Sahel: Security agents kidnapped in Mopti, Mali
Bamako, Sept 6, 2019 - Armed men abducted 22 members of a military unit comprising mainly Tuareg ex-rebels and former...
Sahel: Kidnappings intensify in southeast Niger
Niamey, Sept 5, 2019 - At least 66 civilians were kidnapped in July in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria...
Sahel: Rainy season hits Niger hard
Niamey, Sept 4, 2019 (By Boureima Hama) - "That's it, time to go!" As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards...
Egypt: Military says it killed six alleged terrorists near Bahariya
Cairo, Sept 5, 2019 - Six suspected jihadists were killed on Thursday in a shootout with police near the Bahariya...
Tunisia: Despite running for presidential election, Nabil Karoui remains in custody
Tunis, Sept 3, 2019 - Tunisia's judiciary on Tuesday rejected an appeal to release media mogul and presidential...
Sahel: Fourteen killed in IED explosion in Mali
Bamako, Sept 3, 2019 - Fourteen bus passengers were killed Tuesday by a road mine in central Mali, the bus company...
Algeria: Junta chief General Gaid Salah insists on the impossible
Algiers, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) - Algeria's powerful army chief called Monday for a vote to elect a successor to ousted...
Sahel: Building collapses in Bamako, Mali. Twelve dead
Bamako, Sept 1, 2019 - Twelve people were killed on Sunday when a three-storey building under construction collapsed...
Tunisia: Four killed in army-insurgent clash in Kasserine
Tunis, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) - A national guard officer and three suspected jihadist militants were killed in a gunbattle...
Sahel: Two generals sent to prison in Burkina Faso for alleged treason
Ouagadougou, Sept 2, 2019 (By Armel Baily with David Esnault in Abidjan) - A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday...
Tunisia: One of these five will be Tunisia’s next president
Tunisia's electoral commission on Saturday announced a final list of 26 presidential candidates to stand in a...
Morocco: Raging flood water claims lives of seven people in Taroudant
Rabat, Aug 29, 2019 (AFP) - At least seven people were killed Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a...
Sahel: Scores killed in pastoral conflict in southern Chad
N'Djamena, Aug 28, 2019 - Eleven people were killed in fighting between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers in a...