Tunisia's prime minister quit Wednesday after less than five months in office, threatening fresh political deadlock as...
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Libya: Illegitimate parliament in Tobruk invites Egypt to intervene militarily inside Libya
Benghazi, Libya, July 14, 2020 - Libya's parliament has passed a motion authorising Egypt to intervene militarily if...
Libya: Haftar’s supporters still insist on a losing strategy, Egypt ups threats of attack
Benghazi, Libya, July 14, 2020 - A war of words was heating up Tuesday in oil-rich and conflict-torn Libya, where two...
Libya: Khalifa Haftar warplane kills 40 migrants who were jailed in a detention center
Tripoli, July 3, 2019 (By Imed LAMLOUM) - Nearly 40 migrants were killed in an air strike Tuesday night on their...
Libya: UAE weapons used by warlord Haftar
Dubai, July 2, 2019 - The UAE denied Tuesday it shipped US missiles to Libya, which is under a UN arms embargo, after...
Libya: Haftar’s embarrassing defeat in Gharyan may complicate the Libyan civil war
Tripoli, July 2, 2019 - By Imed Lamloum - Libya's military strongman Khalifa Haftar, by provoking Turkey, seeks to...
Algeria: Another Bouteflika operative forced to resign as speaker of lower house
Algiers, July 2, 2019 - The speaker of Algeria's lower house of parliament resigned Tuesday, an official told AFP,...
Algerian journalist beaten, humiliated after arrest covering demos
Algiers, July 1, 2019 - A journalist arrested last week as he covered Algeria's weekly anti-regime demonstration said...
Algerian military regime arrests war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa for his political opinion
Algiers, June 30, 2019 - Algerian authorities have arrested a well-known veteran of the war of independence against...
Libya: Haftar frees Turkish sailors before it is too late
July 1, 2019 - Six Turkish sailors held by forces led by Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar have been freed, a Turkish...
Libya: Turkey warns Libyan warlord Haftar
Comments by Arezki Daoud: Warlord Haftar is chewing more than he can swallow. Not only he lost his base in Gharyan to...
Libya: Warlord Haftar complicates his situation as he loses Gharyan
Benghazi, Libya, June 29, 2019 - Strongman Khalifa Haftar has threatened to attack Turkish interests in Libya after...
Africa: South American cocaine finds its way into West Africa
Dakar, July 1, 2019 - Senegalese authorities have discovered more than a tonne of cocaine in the past week hidden in...
Algerian regime seeks to intimidate and scare, but Algerians continue to protest peacefully
Algiers, June 28, 2019 (By Abdelhafid Daamache with Aymeric) - Protesters thronged the heart of Algeria's capital on...
Tunisia: Advisors seek to appease concerns over power vacuum as President fights for his life
Tunis, June 28, 2019 - Tunisia is not at risk of a power vacuum despite the sudden hospitalisation of President Beji...
Mauritania: State TV claims foreigners took part to anti-election protests, but shows no proof
Nouakchott, June 27, 2019 - Mauritanian television has broadcast detained foreigners purporting to confess that they...
Morocco: Lawyers speak of Moroccan government failure to track terrorists, as suspects face death penalty
Salé, Morocco, June 27, 2019 - Lawyers for the family of a Danish hiker murdered last year in Morocco said on Thursday...
Tunisia: Main attacks in Tunisia since 2011 revolution
Tunis, June 27, 2019 - Two suicide bombers attacked security forces in the Tunisian capital on Thursday, killing a...
Morocco: Killers of European tourists in Morocco face death penalty
Salé, Morocco, June 27, 2019 - (By Ismail Bellaouali) - Moroccan prosecutors on Thursday called for the death penalty...
Libya: Setback for warlord Haftar as Tripoli forces retake Gharyan
Tripoli, June 26, 2019 - Libyan forces opposed to Khalifa Haftar claimed Wednesday to have retaken Gharyan, a...
Tunisia: Tunis rocked by twin terror attacks, as President fights for his life
Tunis, June 27, 2019 - Double suicide attacks shook Tunisia's capital Thursday, even as the country was plunged into...
Sahel: New dictatorship in Mauritania after General Ould Ghazouani declared victory
Nouakchott, June 25, 2019 - Mauritanian police raided the headquarters of two opposition parties, closing one of them...
Sahel: Two gendarmes killed in terror attack in Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, June 25, 2019 - A "terrorist attack" left two gendarmes dead and one seriously wounded in the north of...
The Sahara, a major corridor for Sub-Sahara migrants
Niamey, June 25, 2019 - Nearly 20,000 migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger over the past three...
Egypt: Another terror attack in Egypt’s North Sinai
Cairo, June 26, 2019 - Seven police officers have been killed in a jihadist attack in restive North Sinai, Egypt's...
Africa: Nigeria’s hunger for meet could solve the grazing crisis
Lagos, June 26, 2019 - With over 200 million people and an emerging middle class, Nigeria is witnessing a boom in...
Egypt: General Sisi attacks businesses, accuses them of plotting against him
Cairo, June 25, 2019 - Egyptian authorities raided 19 businesses Tuesday accused of funding a plot to overthrow the...
Libya: Parliamentary speaker calls for the shutdown of national oil production
Libya's National Oil Company has warned that any bid to tamper with the sector could escalate unrest in the...
Mauritania: Another general takes over power in North Africa
Nouakchott, June 23, 2019 - Government candidate and frontrunner Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won an absolute majority...
Algeria: Regime of General Gaid Salah arrests 18 for carrying Berber flag, increases repression of peaceful protesters
Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested 18 people who had brandished the Berber minority flag during an...
Algeria: Businessman Hassen Arbaoui detained in corruption probe
Algiers, June 20, 2019 - Algerian authorities on Thursday detained a third automobile tycoon as part of an...
Sahel: 18 insurgents killed in Niger’s Tongo Tongo area over a ten-day campaign
Niamey, June 20, 2019 - Eighteen members of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara were killed in a joint operation...
The Libyan civil war: no break for Tripoli
Tripoli, June 20, 2019 - Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has vowed to press ahead with an offensive to seize Tripoli,...
Egypt: Fallout of President Morsi’s death
Egypt's Morsi likely 'more popular' after death Cairo, June 19, 2019 (By Aziz El Massassi) - Unpopular in power and...
Libya: Three wounded in air raid on site operated by Mellitah Oil & Gas Company
Tripoli, June 19, 2019 - Libya's National Oil Company deplored an air raid that on Tuesday evening destroyed a...
Sahel: Mali’s ethnic Dogon people under attack
June 18, 2019 - Thirty-eight people (updated to 41) were killed and many others wounded in attacks on two ethnic Dogon...
Egypt: Opposition party accuses Egyptian authorities of “deliberately killing” Morsi
Cairo, June 18, 2019 (By Farid Farid and Mona Salem) - Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi...
Algeria: General Gaid Salah issues threats against those who don’t agree with him
Algiers, June 18, 2019 - Military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah said Tuesday that those who oppose the army were...
Morocco: UN warns of over-urbanising Morocco’s coastline
Mohammedia, Morocco, June 17, 2019 - Beneath an apartment block that looms over Monica beach in the western coastal...
Sahel: Three security personnel killed in new violence in Mali
Bamako, June 17, 2019 - Two Malian gendarmes were killed by a mine explosion outside a military base and a soldier...
Algeria: Business tycoon Ali Heddad jailed six months over illegal passport possession
Algiers, June 17, 2019 - Algeria's top businessman Ali Haddad, a key supporter of ousted president Abdelaziz...
Egypt: Former President Mohamed Morsi dies after facing judge
Cairo, June 17, 2019 - Mohamed Morsi, who died Monday aged 67, was Egypt's first democratically elected president but...
Tunisia denies landing of migrants stuck at sea
Tunis, June 14, 2019 - Dozens of migrants rescued in international waters off Tunisia are still stranded 15 days later...