Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is a staunch supporter of Libya's UN-recognised Government of...
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Egypt: Impasse in talks over Nile dam. Sudan threatens to withdraw
Egypt on Tuesday called for a suspension of meetings with Ethiopia on Addis Ababa's massive dam construction project...
Immigration: Influx of migrants gives new momentum to Italy’s far-right movement
Lampedusa, Italy - [Photo: Giorgia Meloni] - Out in the Mediterranean, under a baking sun, fisherman Ezio Billeci...
Libya: Sudan nationals headed to Libya as mercenaries captured at border
Khartoum, July 19, 2020 - Sudanese forces arrested around 160 people on the border with Libya who were en-route to the...
Mali: Mediators propose that the opposition participates in government
Bamako, July 19, 2020 - West African mediators trying to resolve Mali's political crisis on Sunday called for a...
Libya: Some EU countries threaten to impose sections on nations involved in Libyan crisis
Berlin, July 18, 2020 - France, Italy and Germany are "ready to consider" sanctions on foreign powers violating an...
Libya: Egypt’s Sisi doubles down on threat to send troops to Libya
Cairo, July 16, 2020 - Egypt's president said Thursday that his country "will not stand idle" against threats to the...
Mali: Inside the June 5 Movement
Bamako, July 17, 2020 - Mali's protest movement against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has triggered the war-torn...
Tunisia: Protesters block key pipeline in Tataouine
Tunis, July 17, 2020 - Protesters demanding jobs in Tunisia's marginalised south have blocked a key pipeline carrying...
Mali opposition agrees to truce, announces cancellation of Friday protest
Bamako, July 15, 2020 - The Malian opposition alliance that demands President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita step down has...
African researchers looking for their own ways to fight viruses
[Photo: Moelcular biologist Christian Happi]: "Strong people don't put others down -- they lift them up." So says the...
Sahel: Regional initiative to ease tension in Mali
[Photo: Ex-Nigeria president Goodluck Johnathan leads ECOWAS delegation to mediate in Mali crisis]: Envoys from Mali's...
Sahel: Understanding the crisis in Mali
A protest movement in Mali has snowballed in just six weeks, shaking the presidency of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and...
Algeria: Auto industry magnate Mahieddine Tahkout sentenced for corruption
Algiers, July 15, 2020 - A former car industry boss who swiftly amassed riches under Algeria's ousted president...
Tunisia’s political crisis: Prime Minister Fakhfakh quits
Tunisia's prime minister quit Wednesday after less than five months in office, threatening fresh political deadlock as...
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...
Egypt: You are considered a criminal if you fly a kite in Egypt
Cairo, July 11, 2020 - [Photo: Rene Vincit] Egyptian police have seized kites from people flying them after a ban by...
Algeria: While cutting his prison sentence by three months, court keeps journalist Djamel Toubal behind bars
Algiers, July 14, 2020 - An Algerian appeals court Tuesday reduced a journalist's jail term to 15 months over Facebook...
Tunisia: Conservative court sends Emna Charki to prison for parody linking the Koran and Covid-19
Tunis, July 14, 2020 - A young Tunisian woman was sentenced to six months in jail by a Tunis court on Tuesday over a...
International court takes up case of Malian man accused of war crimes
The Hague, July 14, 2020 - A Malian jihadist police chief committed "unimaginable crimes" during a reign of terror in...
Mali: Embattled president seeks to appease tension with release of opposition figures
Bamako, July 13, 2020 - All opposition figures who were detained in Mali after violent protests against President...
Tunisia: Government of PM Elyes Fakhfakh under pressure as country slides into political and economic chaos
Tunis, July 13, 2020 - Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, the largest in parliament, called Monday for...
Tunisia: More unrest in Southern Tunisia over economic despair
Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated in the south of the country on Saturday against unemployment and the death of a...
Morocco: Second outbreak of Covid-19 forces shutdown of Tangiers
The city of about a million inhabitants was locked down from Monday at noon local time, with public transport...
New influx of migrants raises concern in Italy
The recent arrivals have sparked protests by locals in some areas, after a few dozen migrants tested positive for the...
Mali: The unsolved grisly murders of Fana
Fana, Mali, July 10, 2020 - Boubou Sangare, his face blank, points at a patch of ground beneath the entrance to an...
Algeria: Sonatrach rep in Lebanon among those charged by judge in tainted fuel scandal
Beirut, July 10, 2020 - A Lebanese investigative judge charged dozens of people including top officials Friday over a...
Libya’s oil production to resume after lifting force majeur
Tripoli, July 10, 2020 - The Libyan National Oil Company announced Friday the resumption of oil production and exports...
Reports of an Egypt spy inside the German government
A man who worked in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's press office is suspected of having spied for Egypt, a...
Mali: Opposition’s stance hardens despite president speech
Mali president's speech fails to appease opposition Mali's main protest leader called for fresh anti-government...
Algeria: As virus infections intensify, health sector faces disastrous outcome
Algiers, July 9, 2020 - Algerian doctors and nurses say they have paid a heavy price in the country's coronavirus...
Mauritania: Former President snubs parliament hearing on oil revenues
Nouakchott, July 9, 2020 - Mauritania's former president on Thursday skipped a parliamentary hearing examining his...
Niger: Environment under attack, four arrested for killing endangered gazelles
Around 40 dorcas gazelles, an endangered species, have been slaughtered by poachers in one of Africa's largest nature...
Morocco: Four arrested in Nador on suspicion of terrorism
Rabat, July 7, 2020 - Morocco on Tuesday arrested four alleged members of a "terrorist cell" linked to the Islamic...
Egypt is one step away from full military takeover of government
Cairo, July 6, 2020 - Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments allowing active or former military personnel to...
Moroccan authorities’ relentless harassment of journalist Omar Radi
Moroccan authorities have arrested a journalist for "public drunkenness and violence", authorities said Monday, days...
Mozambique: Setback in Rovuma gas project as insurgents kill eight workers
Gunmen ambushed and killed eight employees of a private construction firm working on the multi-billion-dollar gas...
Morocco and Algeria report record numbers of Covid-19 cases
Rabat (AFP) - Morocco reported Sunday 698 additional novel coronavirus infections, the highest one-day increase since...
Nigeria: Insurgents attack Damask, kill two civilians and damage UN helicopter
The United Nations on Saturday said two civilians including a five-year-old child were killed and an aid helicopter...
Tunisia: The struggle to identify dead migrants
The identity of dozens of migrants who drowned off Tunisia last month might have been lost without a trace, like...
Egypt announces arrest of man accused of abusing dozens of women
Egyptian authorities on Saturday arrested a man who allegedly sexually abused dozens of girls and women, in a case...
Mali: New massacre in Mopti’s Bandiagara region
Unidentified armed men massacred 31 civilians in simultaneous attacks on several Mali villages this week, then killed...