By Arezki Daoud: Khalifa Haftar, the powerful figure dominating eastern Libya, has orchestrated a regime where his...
Criminality and corruption Bound
Egypt: One killed, six arrested in gun battle on Egypt-Israel border
A gunfire broke out near Nitzana, Israel, along the border crossing separating Egypt and Israel. The incident, which...
Algeria fires head of police, arrests 11 Oran Airport security officers
Farid Bencheikh, the head of gigantic police and security agency, the Director General of National Security (DGSN),...
Mauritania: Ex President Ould Abdel Aziz prevented from leaving country amid corruption probe
Mauritania's ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who faces a trial for alleged corruption, said on Thursday that he...
Spain cracks down on use and abuse of undocumented migrants in agriculture
Spanish police said Thursday they have broken up a criminal group that exploited undocumented migrant workers in the...
Egypt: Actress Menna Shalabi sentenced to three years in prison for ‘cannabis possession’
Popular Egyptian actor Menna Shalabi was found guilty Thursday for cannabis possession and handed a suspended one-year...
Morocco: French national seeks UN help to fight extradition to US from Morocco
The lawyer of a Frenchman held in Morocco and fighting extradition to the United States for alleged hacking told AFP...
European plane maker Airbus to pay less than 16 mil. euro to avoid corruption probe
A French judge on Wednesday allowed European aerospace firm Airbus to pay 15.9 million euros ($16.4 million) to avoid...
Tunisia: Dozen policemen get only 2 years in prison in case involving death of young man
Twelve Tunisian policemen were jailed for two years Thursday for manslaughter in the case of a 19-year-old football...
Morocco: Two million captagon pills seized in port of Tangier
Moroccan authorities Friday seized more than two million amphetamine-type captagon pills, foiling an "international...
Morocco: Gang of human smugglers arrested in Nador
Morocco arrests 32 migrants trying to reach Spain Moroccan police on Friday arrested 32 migrants as they tried to set...
French cement giant Lafarge accused of supporting “terror groups”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he warned France about the cement company Lafarge's ties to terror...
Algeria: New corruption scandal rocks Air Algerie amid leaks of confidential procurement documents ($)
Appointed on June 18, 2022 by the government as CEO of airline Air Algérie, Yacine Benslimane is now under...
Morocco: Toxic alcohol kills 19 in Ksar El Kebir
At least 19 people have died and dozens of others were hospitalised after consuming toxic alcohol from a roadside...
Tunisia: Mayor of Mornag arrested after municipal police seized scales of street vendor who committed suicide
Tunisian police on Monday arrested the mayor of a town where a fruit seller committed suicide after his scales were...
Moroccan court sentences French narcotrafficker Sofiane Hambli to 20 years in prison
A Moroccan court has sentenced a French drug boss to 20 years in prison on a string of narcotics charges, a court...
Video: Inside sex tourism in Morocco
France24's Reporters report on pedophiles and sex tourists in Morocco, where hundred of thousands are being sexually...
Mauritania: Ex President Ould Abdel Aziz to face corruption trial
Mauritania's disgraced ex-president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has been released from custody pending a trial on...
Libya: International court abandons case against late Libyan security chief Tohami Khaled
The International Criminal Court said Wednesday it was dropping a war crimes case against deposed dictator Moamer...
Algeria: Another former Prime Minister arrested
Algeria's Former Interim Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui has been arrested on August 23, 2022. He has been placed in...
Morocco: Two Moroccan diplomats on assignment in Colombia suspended for questionable behavior
Two Moroccan diplomats have been suspended from their positions in Colombia after they were drugged and robbed by...
Sahel: New concerns in Burkina Faso amid calls to murder ethnic Fulanis
Burkina Faso's government on Thursday lashed calls on social media to attack the country's Fulani minority, describing...
Inside Chad: Violence, oil wealth and poverty
Chad is an oil-rich but deeply poor African nation that has become a key regional ally of the West in the fight...
Moroccan court OKs extradition to US of French cybercrime suspect Sebastien Raoult
Morocco's top court has given a preliminary endorsement over the extradition to the US of a French national suspected...
Algeria MP jailed for trying to help daughter cheat on school exam
An Algerian lawmaker has been jailed for three years for trying to help his daughter cheat on a school maths exam, the...
Morocco: French billionaire Jacques Bouthier accused by four Moroccan women of sexual harassment
Four women have pressed charges in Morocco against French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier, currently under arrest in...
Morocco: Former rights minister Mohamed Ziane sentenced to three years in prison
A Moroccan former rights minister who became an outspoken government critic was sentenced to three years in prison on...
Crimes: Former Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia
An Algerian court on Monday sentenced in absentia ex-energy ministry Chakib Khelil, who served under former president...
Crimes: Drug smugglers use deceptive practices to get hashish from Morocco into Spain
Spanish police said on Thursday they had busted a drug ring suspected of simulating sailboat accidents, including an...
Mali: The demise of the historic Timbuktu and the man who helped destroy it
The fabled shrine city of Timbuktu was reduced to a "shadow of its former self" by Islamist jihadists, and residents...
Libya: Police seize cannabis wrapped with images of Russian president Putin
Libya's anti-drug squad on Monday announced the discovery of 323 bars of hashish wrapped with images of Russian...
Egypt charges five after another teen suicides over blackmail
Prosecutors in Egypt charged five people after a teenager committed suicide over alleged blackmail using doctored...
Egypt accuses businessman El-Amin of human trafficking and sexual assault
An Egyptian businessman was charged on Saturday with "human trafficking" and "sexual assault" a month after he was...
Morocco businessman jailed over 29 deaths in factory flood
The owner of a Moroccan textiles workshop where 29 workers drowned, most of them women, in a flood in February was...
Morocco: Former rights minister Mohammed Ziane to be tried for adultery
A Moroccan former rights minister who has become an outspoken government critic said Wednesday he was facing charges...
Libyan journalist Siraj Abdelhafid al-Mogassbi kidnapped in Benghazi
A Libyan journalist was kidnapped Monday in the country's second city Benghazi, the government media authority said....
Criminality: Drug baron Hambli arrested in Moroccan hospital
A notorious French drug baron who skipped bail in March this year has been re-arrested in a Morocco hospital where he...
Disappointment in Italy after judges halt trial of Egyptian officers in murder of Giulio Regeni
By Ella Ide: The trial of four Egyptian security officers in Rome for the brutal killing of Italian student Giulio...
Inside West Africa’s drug trade
By Selim Saheb Ettaba: West Africa is a small but strategic hub for smugglers moving drugs from Latin America to...
Libya: Italian captain given jail term for handing migrants to Libya
By Ella Ide, Alvise Armellini: A ship's captain who rescued a group of 101 migrants from the Mediterranean sea before...
Libya: Pro-election youth leader Imad al-Harathi kidnapped
A Libyan youth leader was abducted by unidentified gunmen after calling for demonstrations in support of scheduled...
Algeria: Prison time piles against former government leaders over more corruption
Two detained former prime ministers under Algeria's longtime ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika were handed additional...
Spyware scandal: Phones of five French ministers infected by Pegasus malware
The mobile phones of at least five French ministers and a diplomatic advisor to President Emmanuel Macron were...