By The North Africa Journal: The entire sub-region of North Africa is the hardest hit by a drought that is causing...
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Drought is pushing North African economies to the brink and to social unrest
Drought is wreaking havoc on North Africa’s water supply and on its agriculture. All countries in the region are...
North Africa’s use of drones in the agricultural sector
By Aymen Jamli: A drone buzzed back and forth above rows of verdant orange trees planted near Nabeul, eastern Tunisia....
How Egypt’s road infrastructure investments are ruinous and destructive
Photo by Mostnir Shady Ahmed: In the decade since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power, Egypt has built dozens...
Niger: Sahara salt diggers struggle to maintain centuries-old trade
By Camille Laffont: At the edge of an oasis almost engulfed by the dunes, where the rare caravan still passes, is a...
Egypt: Sandstorm brings down billboard in Cairo, kills one
One person was killed and five others were injured Thursday when a billboard collapsed in a major thoroughfare as a...
Environment: Sahel region crippled by torrential rains and deadly floods
Flooding caused by torrential rain in Niger has left 195 people dead and affected more than 322,000, an official toll...
Egypt replants mangrove ‘treasure’ to fight climate change impacts
By Bahira Amin: On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to...
Environment: Rights and environmental groups say Egypt is not fit to host major climate summit
A month before Egypt hosts the UN climate change conference, Cairo is finalising the list of world leaders coming as...
Sahel: Record death toll from floods in Niger
Flooding caused by heavy rains in the West African state of Niger has claimed nearly 200 lives and affected more than...
Moroccan nomads’ way of life threatened by climate change
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri In the blistering desert of Morocco, the country's last Berber nomads, the Amazigh, say their...
Environment: Severe floods wreck havoc on West African agriculture
By Aminu Abubakar Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from...
Egypt: As it prepares for major climate summit, Egypt criticized for “growing repression of dissent”
Egyptian authorities "have continued to stifle freedoms" in the year since launching a national human rights strategy,...
The Sahel is in permanent state of climate shock, the world’s most vulnerable to extreme droughts, floods and heatwaves
The World Bank on Monday urged five West African countries to diversify their economies to adapt to climate change,...
Sahel: More than 150 dead in Niger rainy season floods
Severe floods in Niger after months of heavy downpours have killed 159 people, authorities said Monday, marking one of...
Sahel: Floods wrecking havoc on the country of Niger
Powerful rains that have swept the arid state of Niger since June have left 75 dead and affected 108,000 people, the...
Niger tries artificial rainmaking to ease drought
Niger has deployed rainmaking planes in a bid to alleviate a drought that has sparked fears of a food crisis in the...
Algeria: Death toll from wildfires exceeds 40, 13 arrested on suspicion of arson
The death toll has climbed to at least 43 from wildfires that have raged for days in northern Algeria, with numbers...
Sahel: Heavy rains destroy farmland, kill dozens of people in Chad
Torrential rains have caused the death of 22 people in Chad since June, with more than 110,000 affected, a UN report...
Algeria: Parts of the iconic El Kala Biosphere Reserve destroyed by fire
More than 10 percent of a UNESCO-listed biosphere reserve has been destroyed by fires that tore through northeastern...
Algeria: Forest fires spread in north Algeria, 26 killed
UPDATE: At least 26 people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday in forest fires that ravaged parts of northern...
Morocco hard hit by drought
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but...
Morocco: World’s biggest producer of cannabis inches closer to legalizing it
Morocco's national regulatory agency overseeing the use of cannabis for medical use met for the first time Thursday in...
Environment: Turtles freed in Tunisia with tracking monitor
Three rescued loggerhead turtles were released into the Mediterranean off Tunisia on Sunday, one with a tracking...
Morocco’s dams reserved down to 33% capacity, government earmarks one billion dollars for aid
Morocco said Wednesday it will launch a nearly $1 billion aid programme to help its agriculture industry, which has...
Religion & the environment: Morocco’s King orders mosques to pray for rain
Mosques held prayers for rain on Friday across the parched North African kingdom of Morocco where farmers are battling...
Sahel: Disasters hit Niger hard
By Boureima Hama Few countries in the world struggle with as many burdens as Niger. The arid Sahel state is the...
Libya: How the city of Benghazi is growing out of control
Over a decade of war in Libya the second city Benghazi has mushroomed to twice its size, creating an unplanned and...
Egypt: Rights activists decry choice of Egypt to host next environmental summit
Human Rights Watch criticised Monday the choice of Egypt as host for the next climate summit, warning the government...
Environment: Climate change could further destabilize North Africa
By Paul Raymond Tunisian olive farmer Ali Fileli looked out over his parched fields and crushed a lump of dry, dusty...
Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a dangerous landfill
By Aymen Jamli - [Watch video at bottom] As tear gas and protest cries filled the air in the Tunisian town of Agareb,...
Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a landfill
Clashes flared again on Thursday between security forces and residents of a Tunisian town protesting against the...
Algeria: Heavy rainfall and landslide cause the collapse of building in Algiers, three killed
Three people were killed and two children injured in a building collapse in Algeria following heavy rainfall, rescue...
Organic farming in the Maghreb: Tunisia ahead, Morocco trails, Algeria is far behind
By Kaouther Larbi and Françoise Kadri Proudly displaying her freshly picked pomegranates, Tunisian farmer Sarah Shili...
Sahel: Mali’s environmental crisis
Extreme weather events in central Mali are complicating even further the lives of residents of the conflict-ridden...
Egypt: Looming environment disaster in the Red Sea
By Bassem Aboualabass: Standing on a boat bobbing gently in the Red Sea, Egyptian diving instructor Mohamed Abdelaziz...
Environment: Beach pollution in Tunisia
By Akim Rezgui with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Tahar Jaouebi looks out from a beach south of Tunis remembering the...
Sahel: The country of Niger faces Covid and cholera at once
First Covid Delta cases emerge in Niger The first cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in the...
A destabilized region: Awful week in the Sahel
Introduction by Arezki Daoud: For years, several analysts made dire predictions about where the Sahel was headed....
Morocco: Wildfires in the Chefchaouen region
Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said Sunday as the...
Libya: Water supply to west and south Libya cut because of political terrorism
Libyan authorities have shut water supplies to swathes of the country after gunmen demanding the release of a jailed...
Algeria: Wildfires continue to rage in northern Algeria on Sunday
Algerian firefighters were still struggling Sunday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people...
Niger: Torrentials rains and raging floods kills dozens in Maradi and Agadez
Heavy rains that have lashed Niger since June have claimed 64 lives, authorities said on Saturday, as floods and...