Opposition lawmakers in Mauritania staged a sit-in at the Ministry of Water to protest a two-week-long water shortage...
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Morocco: Villagers on Edge as Wildfire Spreads Near Tangier
Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling a rapidly spreading wildfire in Houara Forest near Tangier, with 60...

Morocco: Two children killed in floods
Struggling with a debilitating drought, Morocco is now experiencing heavy rainfall resulting in floods that have been...
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...
Algeria: Death toll from wildfires rises to 90
Algeria police arrest 36 after 'arsonist' lynching Algerian police said Sunday they had arrested 36 people including...
Niger: Several regions experiencing severe flooding, dozens killed
Heavy rains lashing arid Niger since June have killed 35 people and made more than 26,500 homeless, the civil...
French nuclear tests in the Sahara in the 1960s remain a toxic issue in Algeria-French relations
By Amal Belalloufi with Philippe Agret in Paris More than 60 years since France started its nuclear tests in Algeria,...
Morocco experiencing scorching heatwave
Morocco was hit by a fiery weekend heatwave that saw temperatures reach nearly 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees...
Egypt: UN sees ray of hope in talks over controversial Ethiopian dam
An agreement on Ethiopia's controversial Nile River dam is possible, the UN said Thursday, urging "trust, transparency...
Egypt: More tension in Egypt after Ethiopia resumes filling of its giant dam
The conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile Ethiopia's construction of a massive dam on a...
Tunisia’s model seaweed farming
By Kaouther Larbi Wading knee-deep in the calm waters of a lagoon, workers in northern Tunisia harvest red seaweed, in...
NGO highlights harmful exports of fish from west Africa / Sahel
Rising exports of fish meal and fish oil from West Africa to Europe and Asia are depriving millions of Africans of...
Climate experts predict hottest year coming within the next five years
By Patrick Galey The world may temporarily breach the 1.5-Celsius warming mark within the next five years, according...
Egypt seeks to appease concern over impact of Ethiopian dam on water supply
Egypt's foreign minister has said that moves by Ethiopia to resume filling its vast dam on the Nile in the coming...
Egypt: Suez Canal about to get bigger after stranded ship crippled traffic for nearly a week
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved Tuesday the widening and deepening of the southern part of the Suez...
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...
Egypt: Impasse in talks over Ethiopia dam
Sudan said Wednesday the latest round of talks with Egypt and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa's controversial dam on the...
Sahel: Upsurge of malaria cases in Mali
Malaria cases in northern Mali have spiked, according to medical workers, claiming 23 lives in the often lawless...
Tunisia battered by heavy rains and floods, six killed
Six people, including three children, have been killed in six days of heavy rains across Tunisia, a spokesman for the...
Egypt: Impasse in talks over Nile dam. Sudan threatens to withdraw
Egypt on Tuesday called for a suspension of meetings with Ethiopia on Addis Ababa's massive dam construction project...
Algeria: Thousands of hectares of forests in Algeria ravaged by fire
Algeria's president on Sunday ordered an "immediate" investigation into forest fires that have ravaged thousands of...
Algeria: The return of the Saharan cheetah to the Hoggar Mountains
Algiers, May 20, 2020 - Naturalists in Algeria have filmed a Saharan cheetah, a subspecies listed as critically...

















