Briefs Bound
Senegal’s outgoing president prepares for disgraced exit
By Francis Sahel, Mondafrique: In the absence of any other alternative, Senegalese President Mack Sall announced last...
Algeria-Morocco Competition for Regional Influence Shifts to Economic Affairs
Opinion By Arezki Daoud: Up until now, enemy brothers, Algeria and Morocco have been trying to impress and disrupt...
Libyan warlord Haftar invites the Russian military
Russian military officials including Moscow's deputy defence minister arrived in Libya on Tuesday after receiving an...
Algeria looking to ease tension in Sahel after Niger coup
Algeria's top diplomat began a tour of West African countries Wednesday in a bid to find a solution following the coup...
Egypt releases political activist Ahmed Douma
Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country's 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind...
Sahel: As political tensions persist, Niger population faces hardship
Floods this week have caused the death of 31 people in politically battered Niger, including eight following the...
Sahel: Political situation in Niger worsens with African Union suspending membership
By Aymeric Vincenot: The African Union said Tuesday that it had suspended Niger's membership in the wake of a military...
Sahel: Mali government troops and their Wagner allies are now attacking the ethnic Touaregs
By Arezki Daoud: As I have been saying for a while, the Malian junta is leveraging its honeymoon period with Russia's...
Environment: Coastal city of Agadir is hottest place ever in Morocco : 120F or 50.4C
Temperatures in Morocco have for the first time on record topped 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit), the North...
Mali: Mali junta face more disgruntled Ethnic Touaregs
Regional rebels in Mali who signed a peace deal in 2015 have withdrawn their representatives from the capital, a move...
Migrations: The deadly sea crossings of North Africa
A rubber dinghy brings back dozens of people from one of six boats the Tunisian coastguard intercepted in a 24-hour...
Niger crisis: Burkina Faso sides with Niger junta, suspends media for anti-Niger stance
Burkina Faso's junta-led government has suspended one of the country's most popular radio stations after it broadcast...
Niger: Toppled president said to be “fine, given the situation”
Niger's detained president was seen by his doctor on Saturday, his entourage said, amid mounting concern for his...
North African governments struggling with migrant crisis
Tunisia and Libya announced Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of...
Niger: ECOWAS walks away from early threat of using force to restore deposed president
West African leaders will make negotiations with the military leaders who have seized control in Niger the "bedrock"...
Morocco: 50 people arrested in anti-terror sweeps ($)
Morocco arrested 50 individuals, including 21 kept in preventive detention, following a nationwide raid on terror...
Brief: Morocco’s overcrowded prisons ($)
The number of prisoners held in penitentiary establishments in Morocco reached, as of August 07, 2023, a total of...
Migration Crisis: Latest News
Four dead, 51 missing in shipwreck off Tunisia At least 11 migrants have died in a shipwreck off Tunisia's coast and...
Niger crisis: Algeria opposes military intervention in Niger
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the prsident of Niger's northern neighbor Algeria, told reporters on Saturday August 5, 2023,...
Niger: Thousands of coup supporters gather in Niamey stadium
Thousands of supporters of the military coup in Niger gathered at a Niamey stadium Sunday, when a deadline set by the...
Migrants: Ten dead migrants wash ashore in Tunisia
The bodies of 10 migrants have been found on a beach in Tunisia, near the city of Sfax which has seen a spike this...
Egypt: One missing after tug sinks in Suez collision with tanker
A Suez Canal tugboat sank and a crew member was missing after the vessel collided with a Hong Kong-flagged tanker, the...
Sahel: Chad acquires military vehicles and security gear from the UAE
The United Arab Emirates has sent military vehicles and other security gear to Chad in support of anti-"terrorism"...
Morocco: 24 people killed in bus accident
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A minibus carrying market-goers in Morocco plunged into a ravine on Sunday, killing 24 people in...
Nigerian president Tinubu under pressure to avoid war with northern neighbor Niger
By Camille Malpat with Aminu Abubakar in Kano, Nigeria: Political leaders in Nigeria are urging President Bola Tinubu...
Morocco: Five years in prison for criticizing King over normalization with Israel
A Moroccan internet user has been sentenced to five years' jail for criticising the king on Facebook over the...
Brief: Nigeria cuts electricity to Niger after coup
Nigeria has cut its electricity supply to Niger after West African neighbours imposed sanctions on the junta that...
Niger: Coup leaders get popular support amid rising regional tensions
By Boureima Hama with Delphine Touitou: Thousands of people rallied Thursday in Niger's capital in support of the coup...
Sahel: West African states getting stressed over coup in Niger, do not rule out military action
Senegal said Thursday that it will participate if the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decides to...
Tunisia: President fires Prime Minister amid a worsening domestic economy
By Françoise Kadri: Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked Prime Minister Najla Bouden without explanation Tuesday night...
Niger: Nuclear industry in France seeks to appease concerns over Niger’s uranium
The military coup in Niger last week raises the question of Europe's dependency on uranium mined in the West African...
Niger: New leaders launch purge of deposed regime ministers
Four ministers in Niger, a former minister and the head of ousted president Mohamed Bazoum's party have been arrested...
Niger military junta accuses France of plotting counter-coup
By Boureima Hama: Niger's new junta on Monday accused France of seeking to "intervene militarily" to reinstate deposed...
Niger: ECOWAS threatens Niger junta to return power to civilians
African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and...
Niger: Athletes from Niger struggle to perform in Kinshasa after coup
Nigerien participants in the Francophone Games, which have kicked off in DR Congo's capital, have been left struggling...
Niger: Army General Abdourahamane Tchiani leads Niger’s new ruling junta
By Boureima Hama: Niger's putschists named an army general as the new leader of the unstable jihadist-hit nation on...
Niger: Army sides with presidential guard in ousting president Bezoum
Niger's armed forces chief on Thursday declared his support for troops who announced they had seized power, despite a...
Algeria: Dozens killed in raging wildfires
Algerian firefighters on Tuesday battled blazes that have killed 34 people across the tinder-dry north, destroyed...
Five Moroccan migrants drown off Western Sahara
At least five Moroccans drowned when their boat sank off Western Sahara, a rights group said on Tuesday, as crossing...
Tunisia: Panic in Europe over Tunisia’s potential economic collapse
By Francoise Kadri: Western nations fear an economic collapse in Tunisia could trigger even greater migrant flows to...
Niger in the footsteps of Mali and Burkina, coup in the offing
The Militarization of the Sahel By Boureima Hama: An attempted coup was underway Wednesday in the Sahel state of Niger...
Sahel: Gunmen kill dozen civilians in Niger’s Tillaberi region
Gunmen have attacked two villages in Niger's vast Tillaberi border region, killing a dozen people working in the...