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Libya: Illegal gold mining network dismantled, foreign nationals arrested
An illegal gold mining network, comprised of Chinese, Chadian, and Nigerien nationals, has been dismantled in southern...
Sahel: Mauritania sends ex-president Ould Abdelaziz to prison for corruption
A court in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Monday sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years...
Mali arrests former Prime Minister over alleged corruption
By Serge Daniel Former Malian prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga was arrested on Thursday as part of a corruption...
Egyptian military accused of committing extra-judicial killings
Amnesty International called Thursday for an investigation after it said an Egyptian army video apparently showed...
Tunisian president accuses hundreds of businessmen of corruption
By Romain Fonsegrives: Tunisia's President Kais Saied accused 460 businessmen of embezzlement as he declared a...
Libya: Militia gang leader Mohammed al-Kani gunned down
A Libyan militia gang leader accused of major human rights violations has been shot dead at a farm in the eastern city...
Mauritania arrests former president Ould Abdel Aziz for alleged corruption
Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Tuesday jailed after a judge in charge of a corruption...
Niger: Bandits ambush and kill policemen in Agadez
Three Nigerien policemen and a gendarme were killed overnight Wednesday when their patrol was ambushed on the border...
Libya: Red Crescent official kidnapped in Ajdabiya
The Libyan Red Crescent said Sunday that unidentified assailants abducted one of its local officials several days ago...
Mauritania: Former President Ould Abdelaziz in trouble, current regime wants him locked up
Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Tuesday put under "house surveillance" by a judge after...
Egypt: Nine people executed over 2013 raid on police station
Egyptian authorities executed nine people Monday over the storming of a police station in 2013 in which 13 policemen...
Libyan authorities on the hunt for killers of Al Warfalli, arrest suspect
Libyan authorities Saturday announced increased security measures in second city Benghazi and the arrest of two...
Tunisia: Italian garbage still piled up in Tunisia, owners unwilling to remove it
Italy and Tunisia were pressed on Thursday to clear hundreds of containers of waste illegally shipped and stored at a...
Mauritania: Intruder tries to seize plane at Nouakchott airport
An intruder tried to seize a plane at the airport in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott Thursday before being arrested, a...
Mauritania: Ex-President Ould Abdel Aziz facing tough corruption charges
By Hademine Ould Sadi - A Mauritanian state prosecutor on Thursday requested corruption charges against former...
Egypt continues to favor capital punishment, executes 11 people
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source said, in the latest cases of...
Morocco: Police seize 9.5 tons of cannabis near Rabat
Around 9.5 tonnes of cannabis resin was seized from a refrigerated lorry near Morocco's capital Rabat, the national...
Algeria: How corruption and bad governance destroy an entire industry
By Abdellah Cheballah - Shuttered assembly plants, jailed bosses, laid-off workers. Algeria's once ambitious plans to...
Morocco: Authorities find large quantities of cannabis buried in sand in the southwest
Nearly 9.2 tonnes of cannabis resin hidden in bales buried in sand were seized in southwestern Morocco, the national...
Tunisia: As the world decriminalizes use of cannabis, Tunisian law remains stubbornly intransigent
Thirty years' jail for smoking a joint after a football game? Tunisia has seen calls for reforms to dictatorship-era...
Tunisia: President’s aide briefly hospitalized after opening suspect letter
The Tunisian president's chief of staff has been hospitalised after handling a suspicious letter addressed to head of...
Algeria: Court upholds long-prison terms of disgraced former Prime Ministers Ouyahia and Sellal
A court in the Algerian capital on Thursday upheld hefty prison sentences against two former prime ministers who...
Tunisia investigating suspect letter sent to president
An investigation has been opened into a suspect letter addressed to Tunisia's President Kais Saied, his office said...
Arab tyrants and their cronies: how Tunisia’s Ben Ali clan ended in utter misery and disgrace
Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like...
Algeria’s ex leaders committed more crimes with the help of Gulf donors
Former Algerian premier Ahmed Ouyahia, on trial for corruption, admitted Saturday to receiving gold bars from Gulf...
Algeria: The mysterious Madam Maya and the depth of corruption of the Bouteflika regime
Court of appeal upholds lower court's 12 year prison sentence against ex president's "secret daughter" A prominent...
Egypt: Anger in Rome after Egypt cleared policemen in Giulio Regeni murder case
The Italian government has described as "unacceptable" a decision by Egypt's public prosecutor to clear five police...
Tunisia: Media owner and ex presidential candidate Karoui arrested in corruption case
Controversial Tunisian media mogul and former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui was rearrested on Thursday in...
Algeria: Purge of former regime operatives continues
This week, Algeria experienced a series of court decisions that have accelerated the fight against corruption....
How Arab people’s efforts to bring democracy are undermined by online fake news
The incompetent Arab regimes: Opinion by Arezki Daoud Arab governments have perfected the science of fake news and...
Algerian court orders retrial of former regime leaders, paves way for their release
Algeria's supreme court on Wednesday said the brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and two ex-intelligence...
Algeria: Media provocateur, Anis Rahmani, gets five years in prison
The head of Algeria's top private media group was jailed for five years on Sunday, the company said, the toughest...
Sahel: Series of grisly decapitations in southern Mali
Security officers have discovered a fresh decapitated body in the southern Malian town of Fana, a local official said...
Niger: US national kidnapped in Tahoua
An American citizen has been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Niger, a senior official told AFP on Tuesday. The...
Algeria: After bleeding his country dry, oligarch Ali Haddad faces grim future
Several years ago, the Algerian authorities turned a blind eye to the acquisition of a luxury hotel in Barcelona by...
Libya: Another rogue official arrested in Libya for human trafficking
Libya's UN-recognised government on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former coastguard wanted by Interpol and under...
Algeria: Alleged daughter of Bouteflika and professional crook gets 12 years jail sentence
A prominent Algerian businesswoman, allegedly an illegitimate child of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was...
Tunisia: Unrest in Sbeitla after police killed a man sleeping in unlicensed kiosk
Tunisia: Presidency fires Governor of Kasserine and Sbeitla Delegate A press release issued by the Tunisian presidency...
Algerians in shock after murder of 19-year old woman
The rape and murder in Algeria of a 19-year-old woman sparked cries for action on gender-based violence in the North...
Niger frees campaigners detained in protests over military contracts
Niger's judicial system has ordered the release of three campaigners held for more than six months after staging...
Morocco: Police seize cocaine and two tons of hash in separate ops in coastal north
Nearly two tonnes of cannabis and over 20 kilograms of cocaine were seized this week in three separate operations in...
Morocco: Anger in Tangiers over rape and murder of a boy
The sexual assault and murder of a boy in the Moroccan city of Tangiers has stirred calls for the death penalty for...