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More than 143,000 cumulative Covid-19 infections in North Africa, at least 6,000 deaths so far, Egypt worst hitF

The cumulative confirmed infections of Covid-19 in the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt reached 143,258 over the weekend ending 26 July 2020. The combined death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic reached 6,144. Egypt, which...

Egypt attacks female online media personalities, five of them sentenced to prisonF

An Egyptian court Monday sentenced five female social media influencers to two years in jail each on charges of violating public morals, a judicial source said. The verdict against Haneen Hossam, Mowada al-Adham and three others came after they had posted footage on...

Migrants currently crossing the Med Sea face imminent dangerF

Around 100 migrants fleeing war-ravaged Libya have run into difficulty in the Mediterranean and could drown, the UN said Monday, urging a rapid rescue. The arrival of summer and more favourable conditions at sea tends to lead to an increase of attempts to cross the...

France’s Bernard-Henri Levy unwelcome in LibyaF

Libya's UN-recognised government has disavowed a visit by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, a champion of the 2011 ouster of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi whose standing has plummeted since the uprising. Across Libya, the euphoria of the NATO-backed rebellion...