Briefs Bound

Algeria plans to introduce online passport renewal for citizens living abroad by late 2025, allowing expired passports to be renewed remotely using existing biometric data. The move is expected to ease pressure on consulates and improve access to services for the diaspora.

Fourteen Egyptians where among 17 confirmed dead migrants after their boat capsized in rough seas south of Crete, highlighting once again the lethal risks of the Mediterranean route from North Africa to Greece.

Algeria’s parliament is weighing a bill that would let authorities revoke citizenship from nationals accused of aiding hostile states, threatening national unity, or joining terrorist groups abroad.

More than 3,300 people have fled northern Mali into Mauritania in recent weeks as armed violence, fuel blockades, and civilian abuses intensify, underscoring the deepening humanitarian and security crisis spreading across the Sahel.