Fana, Mali, July 10, 2020 - Boubou Sangare, his face blank, points at a patch of ground beneath the entrance to an...
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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...
Libya: France accused of complicity in the Libyan crisis, Paris denies
Paris, April 24, 2019 - Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the internationally-recognised government in...
Egypt: General Sisi consolidates his power
Cairo, April 23, 2019 - Egyptian voters have overwhelmingly backed constitutional changes that could see President...
Libya: Death toll climbs, displacement accelerates in Tripoli
Tripoli, April 23, 2019 - At least 264 people have been killed and 1,266 wounded, including civilians, in an...
Algeria: Students maintain anti-government momentum
Algiers, April 23, 2019 - Thousands of Algerian students marched Tuesday through the capital calling for the overthrow...
Algeria: And the witch-hunt continues
The speed in which a number of former and current officials and business tycoons have been implicated into shady...
Morocco arrests seven terror suspects
Rabat, April 23, 2019 (AFP) - Moroccan authorities said Tuesday they have arrested seven suspected jihadists with...
Algeria: Six controversial Governors fired, including unpopular wali of Algiers
Acting President Abdelkader Bensalah, on Monday, 22 April fired six walis (Governors) long considered controversial...
Morocco: Protest movement reenergized, monarchy must give something or face permanent state of protest
The Moroccan monarchy has been extremely hesitant to put in place more meaningful reforms that would address the basic...
Sahel: Dozen soldiers killed by insurgents in Mali
Bamako, April 21, 2019 - Suspected jihadists killed at least 11 soldiers in an attack Sunday in central Mali, the...
Libya: France’s Libyan dillema
Tripoli, April 22, 2019 - Libya's unity government has bitterly criticised France for its stand in the offensive on...
Sahel: Boubou Cisse asked to form new government in Mali
Bamako, April 22, 2019 (AFP) - Mali's president on Monday named economy and finance minister Boubou Cisse as the new...
Algeria: Private business sector swept away by protest movement, several businessmen under arrest
The protest movement in Algeria is having its first wave of collateral damage. With the judiciary active as never...
Algeria: Protests maintain pressure against regime in ninth consecutive Friday of demonstrations
Algiers, April 19, 2019 - Huge crowds of protesters filled central Algiers for a ninth weekly mass rally Friday,...
Morocco: Arrest of suspect allegedly plotting terror attack on Spain
Madrid, April 17, 2019 (AFP) - Police have arrested a suspect in Morocco allegedly preparing a jihadist attack on...
Libya: How the Internet and new media are worsening the crisis in Libya
Tripoli, April 18, 2019 - On Libya's front lines, fighters often hold a gun in one hand and a smartphone in the other,...
Libya: Unity government issues arrest warrant for Haftar
Tripoli, April 18, 2019 (AFP) - Libya's unity government on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for strongman general...
Libya: UN envoys predicts doom in Libya
Tripoli, April 18, 2019 - The UN's Libya envoy warned Thursday of "a widening conflagration" in the North African...
Egypt braces for long-term authoritarian regime
Cairo, April 17, 2019 - Egypt on Wednesday set a referendum for April 20-22 on sweeping constitutional changes...
Libya: UN Security Council debates over ceasefire while Tripoli crumbles
Tripoli, April 17, 2019 - The death toll from rocket fire on the Libyan capital Tripoli, blamed by the UN-recognised...
Algeria: The Algiers mosque, symbol of the misguided vision of a leader that destroyed his country
Algiers, April 15, 2019 - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika may be gone, but his unfinished Great Mosque of Algiers looms...
Sahel: Boko Haram attacks military base in Bouhama, Chad
N'Djamena, April 15, 2019 - Fighting between Chad soldiers and Boko Haram jihadists killed dozens, including 63...
Libya: The battle for Tripoli rages on, 147 killed
Tripoli, April 15, 2019 - At least 147 people have been killed and 614 wounded in the offensive launched on April 4 by...
Cheering pro-democracy movements or supporting autocratic rulers: a reticent America
Washington, April 12, 2019 - The United States initially cheered on the Arab Spring but as fresh popular uprisings...
Morocco: Swiss national sentenced to prison for terrorism
Rabat, April 12, 2019 - A Moroccan court has sentenced a Swiss citizen arrested in connection with the murder of two...
Algerians find new interest in law and their constitution
Algiers, April 12, 2019 - By Claire Doyen - Sitting in a living room transformed into a makeshift classroom, Algerians...
Libya: Thousands flee, population stranded inside conflict zone in Tripoli
April 12, 2019 - More than 8,000 people have fled fighting around Libya's capital, half of whom have been displaced...
Libya crisis update – 11 April 2019
Tripoli, April 11, 2019 - By Rim Taher and Imed Lamloum - The UN chief warned Libya is on the brink of "a very...
Egypt: Teenage suicide bomber kills seven in Egypt
Cairo, April 9, 2019 - A teen suicide bomber killed four members of Egypt's security forces and three civilians...
With the ousting of Bouteflika and al-Bashir, should others be concerned?
April 11, 2019 - Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by...
Mali: French forces in Mali set up base near Burkina border after major clean up operation
April 10, 2019 - French and Malian troops killed or captured more than 30 extremists and dismantled a jihadist...
Sahel: Mali soldier mistakenly shoots and kills civilian in moment of panic
Bamako, April 9, 2019 - Malian soldiers shot dead at least one villager and injured others after a detonation they...
Sahel: Boko Haram targets Niger’s Diffa region in new attacks
Niamey, April 10, 2019 - Several people have been taken hostage and a policeman killed in an attack by Boko Haram...
Morocco: Jailed leader of the protest movement takes drastic step of sewing his lips
Rabat, April 9, 2019 - The jailed leader of a Moroccan protest movement, Nasser Zefzafi, has sewn his lips together...
Algeria: Rejected by the Algerian people, the old guard remains in power
Algiers, April 9, 2019 - By Claire Doyen - Algerian lawmakers appointed a regime stalwart as interim president...
Libya: Fighting outside Tripoli rages on as UN struggles to find a solution to the crisis
Tripoli, April 10, 2019 - The battle for Libya's capital intensified as the UN Security Council prepared to meet...
Libya: Thousands flee Libya clashes
Tripoli, April 8, 2019 - Fighting raged around Tripoli and an air strike closed its only functioning airport Monday,...
Mali: Dozen dead as boat sinks on way to market in Segou
Bamako, April 8, 2019 (AFP) - A boat headed for market laden with merchandise and vendors capsized in the Niger River...
Libya: How global and regional powers are sustaining the mess in Libya
April 8, 2019 - The attempted offensive by Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli has thrown into sharp relief...
Libya: Flights halted at Tripoli airport as fighting continues, death toll reaches 35
Tripoli, Libya, April 8, 2019 - A warplane carried out an air strike Monday against the Libyan capital's only...
Mali’s humanitarian problem: too much focus on boots on the ground
April 4, 2019 - Mali is in dire need of humanitarian aid, with more than three million people requiring food and basic...