Mali's airports, from the bustling hub in Bamako to smaller regional ones, have become a key front in the battle...
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Mauritania: Ex-President Verdict Puts Mauritania’s Legal System Under Spotlight
Mauritania’s high-profile corruption trial of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has sparked a bigger...
Book: Lafarge Group and the Islamic State
Lafarge’s indictment for financing terrorism reveals corporate entanglements with ISIS to maintain operations in...
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...
Egypt: Court upholds three-year prison sentence for former Minister Safwat al-Sherif
Egypt's top appeals court upheld on Tuesday a three-year prison sentence over corruption charges for a Mubarak-era...
Sahel: Chad’s ex oil Minister Le Bemadjiel arrested on corruption charges
N'Djamena - Chad's former oil minister was in custody on Thursday following his arrest for allegedly stealing public...
Egypt: Police arrest suspected rapist as #MeToo movement reignites
Cairo, Aug 27, 2020 - Egypt has arrested a suspect in the alleged gang rape of a woman in a luxury Cairo hotel, the...
Former Mauritanian president under investigation for alleged embezzlement
Nouakchott, Aug 18, 2020 - Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, under suspicion over embezzlement...
Former and current ENI CEOs in trouble over alleged bribery in Nigeria
North Africa Journal's editor's note: Although this case is on ENI's alleged corruption case in Nigeria, ENI's...
Algeria: Auto industry magnate Mahieddine Tahkout sentenced for corruption
Algiers, July 15, 2020 - A former car industry boss who swiftly amassed riches under Algeria's ousted president...
Algeria: Corruption trial ends with more prison years for two former Prime Ministers and several members of Tahkout family
Algiers- The North Africa Journal - 15 July 2020: [Photo: Fall from grace. The photo shows former Prime Minister...
Mali: The unsolved grisly murders of Fana
Fana, Mali, July 10, 2020 - Boubou Sangare, his face blank, points at a patch of ground beneath the entrance to an...
Niger: Environment under attack, four arrested for killing endangered gazelles
Around 40 dorcas gazelles, an endangered species, have been slaughtered by poachers in one of Africa's largest nature...
Egypt announces arrest of man accused of abusing dozens of women
Egyptian authorities on Saturday arrested a man who allegedly sexually abused dozens of girls and women, in a case...
Algeria: Oligarch Ali Haddad gets 18 years in prison
An Algerian court on Wednesday handed heavy prison sentences to several former allies of ousted president Abdelaziz...
Criminality: Drug gang war leaves 10 dead in northern Niger
Niamey, June 22, 2020 - Clashes between rival drug runners left at least 10 dead last week in northern Niger near the...
Mali: Four inmates die in prison riot in Bamako
Four prisoners in Mali's capital Bamako have died after a "mutiny" which saw inmates break out of their cells and...
Algeria: Uproar after death of child during exorcism session
A ten-year-old girl who died in eastern Algeria while undergoing faith healing appeared to suffer "blows and burns", a...
Libya: Mass murder of migrants underscores state of chaos in Libya
Tripoli, May 28, 2020 - The family of a Libyan smuggler killed by migrants have taken revenge by killing 26...
Algeria: Sonatrach implicated in tainted fuel export to Lebanon
Beirut, May 13, 2020 - A Lebanese prosecutor on Wednesday pressed charges against 12 people including government...
Nigeria: First man to be hanged in ‘virtual’ trial
Lagos, May 5, 2020 - A Nigerian court sentenced a man to death in the country's first ever virtual ruling during a...
Food supply: The struggle to maintain normalcy in time of pandemic
Algiers, April 9, 2020 (By Abdellah Cheballah) - From an acute shortage of regional staple couscous to a surge of...
Morocco: The big scam in Casablanca
Casablanca, Morocco, April 2, 2020 (By Hamza Mekouar) - "Give us our money!", demands a group of home buyers, standing...
Algeria: A dictator’s cozy retirement and the whereabouts of Bouteflika
Algiers, March 31, 2020 - A year after the unexpected downfall of Algeria's longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika,...
Algeria: Appeals court uphold prison sentences for corrupt former Prime Ministers
Algiers, March 25, 2020 - An Algerian appeals court has upheld sentences of over ten years in prison for two former...
Morocco arrests Salafist preacher for publicly opposing anti-coronavirus measures
The Moroccan authorities arrested Salafist Preacher Abou Naim for publicly opposing anti-coronavirus measures enacted...
Algeria: Court sentences drug baron to prison, acquits president’s son in real estate corruption case
Algiers, Feb 27, 2020 - The son of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been acquitted in a high-profile...
Corruption in Algeria: Prosecutor calls for two-year jail term for President’s son
The public prosecutor asked a judge in Algiers to sentence Kamel Chikhi, known as "El Bouchi" (the Butcher), to 10...
Algeria: The dizzying pace of the anti-corruption campaign and the clan warfare
The Algerian legal system has resumed its anti-corruption campaign with the arrest this week of several business...
Egypt: Doctor in court over deadly genital mutilation
Cairo, Feb 22, 2020 - Egypt's state prosecutor decided to re-arrest and put on trial a doctor for performing a genital...
Egypt: Mubarak’s sons cleared by court in market manipulation case
Cairo, Feb 22, 2020 - An Egyptian court on Saturday acquitted two sons of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and...
Egypt: Cost of smuggling antiquities: brother of ex minister gets 30 years in prison
Cairo, Feb 15, 2020 - [Photo by Daniela Turcano] - A Cairo criminal court sentenced the brother of a former Egyptian...