Morocco said Saturday it will ban entry to all travellers from China, where cases of Covid-19 have exploded. Other...

Morocco said Saturday it will ban entry to all travellers from China, where cases of Covid-19 have exploded. Other...
Tunisia recorded its first confirmed case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a Congolese man who arrived...
Egypt on Monday barred officials and students not vaccinated against Covid-19 from government offices and universities...
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Morocco on Tuesday said it was lifting a nationwide pandemic curfew thanks to an improving health situation and...
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday announced the lifting of a nighttime curfew in place since March 2020 due to...
Egypt said Wednesday it plans to manufacture one billion doses a year of China's Sinovac vaccine, claiming it would...
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Libya's government Monday announced a two-week overnight curfew in the areas it controls in the centre and west of the...
Libyan authorities on Saturday stepped up their vaccination campaign around the capital Tripoli, as coronavirus cases...
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Tunisia's government stumbled deeper into crisis on Wednesday over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, after...
Mauritania, concerned over rising Covid-19 infections, has banned mosque prayers over the Islamic festival of Eid...
The North Africa Journal - Daily confirmed positive cases in Algeria rose sharply on Wednesday, 7 July, crossing the...
Tunisia virus situation catastrophic: health ministry Tunisia's health system has "collapsed" under the weight of the...
Morocco has vaccinated nearly 4,000 inmates as part of a campaign launched in March to inoculate the incarcerated...
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Egypt on Wednesday announced a partial shutdown of malls and restaurants and called off festivities for the Muslim...
The World Health Organization expressed concern Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic could worsen in the Middle East...
Spain and France are chartering planes and ferries to bring home thousands of their nationals stranded in Morocco...
Libya's interim prime minister on Sunday announced the arrival of the first batch of vaccines against Covid-19, as the...
At a hospital near the Algerian capital, staff say they are "on the verge of burnout" more than a year on from the...
Tunisia said Monday the first coronavirus vaccines were set to arrive to start mass inoculation in the North African...
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Egypt began its Covid-19 immunisation program Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its...
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Nigerian authorities have warned on Friday against the circulation of fake coronavirus vaccines in the country, where...
Egypt has approved the use of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm with its rollout to start...
Egypt said Sunday it had opened an investigation into the deaths of four Covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit...
A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said....
Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of coronavirus aged 71, his family and party said Friday, after being...
Morocco said Thursday it had ordered 65 million doses of novel coronavirus vaccine, as the North African kingdom...
Egypt has called off all New Year's celebrations in order to stem rising coronavirus cases in the country, Prime...
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Libyan Member of Parliament (MP) Omar Garmil has died in Morocco weeks after being infected with Covid-19, multiple...
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Sunday he was recovering from the Covid-19 illness, in his first...
Mali's interim legislature on Saturday elected Colonel Malick Diaw, a member of the military junta that toppled...
Morocco hopes to launch an ambitious vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus by year-end, but its efforts...
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Algeria imposed new coronavirus restrictions Sunday, closing sport and cultural centres as well as beaches after a...
In this brief podcast recorded on 12 November 2020, MEA Risk's Arezki Daoud provides an update on the Coronavirus in...
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In the evening of Wednesday, 28 October, Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune was transferred to Germany for...
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Tunisia has reinstated curfews in several regions in recent days in a bid to rein in a sharp spike in novel...
Tunisian authorities have warned that hospitals are struggling to cope with an influx of Covid-19 patients and urged...
Tunisia's tourism sector has collapsed, officials warned Saturday, with earnings plunging 60 percent and swathes of...
The Moroccan economic sector is struggling with the effects of Covid-19. Some businesses are being punished for...
Desert El Tîh, Egypt - Spread out at the foot of a vast plateau in the Sinai desert, hundreds of excited Bedouins...
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Egypt's virus death toll approaches 6,000 Egypt has detected more than 100,000 Covid-19 infections and reported 5,541...
Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day pupils were due to return to classes, in...
United Nations, United States, Sept 1, 2020 - Niger, the current president of the UN Security Council, said Tuesday it...
Tripoli, Aug 31, 2020 - The mayor of the western city of Misrata died Monday of the novel coronavirus, Libya's unity...
North African governments are once again relying on foreign sources to help them deal with their crises. After...
Coronavirus cases have skyrocketed 15-fold in Libya since June, the Red Cross said Thursday, warning this was further...
Moroccan authorities Thursday slapped tight controls on movement in Casablanca and Marrakesh, the North African...
Turkey has expressed concern over the rising number of coronavirus cases as the daily infection toll exceeded 1,000...
Brussels, July 29, 2020 - The EU is to reimpose travel restrictions on Algeria, diplomats said Wednesday, after a...
Skhirat, Morocco, July 29, 2020 - Moroccan farmer Hamid had pinned his hopes on selling his sheep for the Eid al-Adha...
Bamako, July 24, 2020 - Mali announced Friday that it would shortly re-open its air and land borders after a...
The African Development Bank said Thursday it would provide $285 million in aid to Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania,...
Beirut, July 20, 2020 - At least 14 prisoners have died from likely COVID-19 complications in scantly-monitored...
Wandering Cairo's bustling streets, Zeinab was struggling to survive by selling tissues when the coronavirus left her...
Algiers, July 18, 2020 - A former Algerian cabinet minister detained in a corruption case has died from the COVID-19...
Algiers, July 18, 2020- Algeria said Saturday that the coronavirus crisis on top of falling oil prices have caused...
The city of about a million inhabitants was locked down from Monday at noon local time, with public transport...
The recent arrivals have sparked protests by locals in some areas, after a few dozen migrants tested positive for the...
Rabat (AFP) - Morocco reported Sunday 698 additional novel coronavirus infections, the highest one-day increase since...
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday the Middle East faces a "critical threshold" amid a relaxation of...
Cairo, June 29, 2020 - A fire at a hospital in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria on Monday killed seven coronavirus...
Algiers, June 26, 2020 - Algeria's health ministry said Friday it recorded 240 new COVID-19 cases the day before, the...
Cairo, June 23, 2020 - Egypt will partially reopen cafes, restaurants, places of worship, cinemas and sporting clubs...
Kuala Lumpur, June 23, 2020 - Muslims expressed disappointment Tuesday at Saudi Arabia's decision to scale back this...
Rabat, June 19, 2020 - Morocco reported on Friday its highest number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections in a...
Amnesty International demanded Thursday that Egypt stop its "harassment and intimidation" of frontline medics for...
Egypt will extend a night-time curfew by a further two weeks in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus,...
There has been an outbreak deep in the desert south, with dozens of cases appearing in the south's largest oasis city...
Below are three interactive charts depicting the evolution of Covid-19 in Morocco. Please feel free to change the...
Cumulative cases of infection of the Covid-19 virus as of 10 June 2020 in Algeria reached 10,484, an increase of 117...
Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis as of 7 June 2020. More than 400,000 deaths The pandemic...
May 28, 2020 (By Isabelle Ligner and Isabelle Wesselingh, photo: Anastasia Vityukova) - To greet friends and...
Algiers, May 26, 2020 - Algeria will continue to use the drug hydroxychloroquine against the novel coronavirus, a...
Tunisia will reopen places of worship, restaurants and hotels from June 4, authorities announced Thursday, more than...
By Hager Harabech: Three months after Egypt reported its first novel coronavirus case, medical experts warn the...
Rabat, May 20, 2020 - Almost half of Moroccans are "anxious" under the mandatory lockdown enforced in mid-March to...
Algiers, May 17, 2020 - The death of a pregnant Algerian doctor from the COVID-19 disease after she was denied...
Niamey, May 15, 2020 - Niger's government on Friday lifted measures to isolate the capital Niamey to stem the spread...
Nouakchott, May 15, 2020 - Mauritania has said that it will reinstate restrictions on mosque prayers, after a recent...
Tunis, May 15, 2020 - Retail shops and supermarkets reopened Friday in Tunisia after the government announced zero...
Niamey, May 10, 2020 (By Boureima Hama) - Many Africans are managing to evade coronavirus lockdown barriers in Niger,...
Tunis, May 11, 2020 - Tunisia on Monday urged continued vigilance against the novel coronavirus, a day after recording...
United Nations, United States, May 8, 2020 - UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has warned that jihadist groups in...
Bamako, May 9, 2020- Mali's government said on Saturday it had lifted its nationwide curfew designed to stem...
Nouakchott, May 8, 2020 - Worshippers packed Mauritania's largest mosque on Friday, mostly ignoring social distancing...
Nouakchott, May 7, 2020 - The West African desert state of Mauritania has scaled back two-month-old restrictions aimed...
Algiers, May 7, 2020 (By Abdelhafid Daamache) - North Africans say they are missing the taste of Ramadan, as...
N'Djamena, May 6, 2020 - Chad's capital N'Djamena will be isolated from the rest of the country for two weeks from...
Rabat, May 6, 2020 - Morocco has rapidly expanded its fleet of drones as it battles the coronavirus pandemic,...
Kano, Nigeria, May 6, 2020 - A group of coronavirus patients staged a protest outside an isolation centre in northern...
Abuja, May 6, 2020 - Nigeria on Wednesday was to start repatriating nationals stranded overseas by coronavirus travel...