The diplomatic crisis between Algeria and Mali, long simmering over border security and regional influence, escalated...
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Egypt: Sisi Confronts Worldwide Embassy Uproar
A series of protests and confrontations at Egyptian embassies around the world has sparked international attention in...
Extraction Without Value: Mali’s Role in the Global Lithium Rush
By Mohamed AG Ahmedou, via MondAfrique: Mali’s strategic resources are a formidable source of enrichment for Beijing,...
Mali: Ousted President returns home after being held by military junta
Bamako, Aug 27, 2020 - Mali's new military rulers said Thursday that former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was...
Tension continues to rise in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea with all parties flexing the muscles
Istanbul, Aug 27, 2020 - Turkey on Thursday extended its controversial Mediterranean gas exploration mission and...
Mali: Negotiators fail to reach agreement on civilian rule
Bamako - Talks between West African envoys and Mali's new military rulers on Monday failed to yield an agreement on...
Algerians called to vote again in November
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - Algeria will hold a promised referendum on a revised constitution on November 1, the office of...
Tunisia: New PM submits list of cabinet members to parliament
Tunis, Aug 25, 2020 - Tunisia's prime minister-designate on Tuesday unveiled the country's second government in six...
Algeria’s repressive courts sentence journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to prison on bogus charges
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, his lawyer told AFP, in...
Libya: Warlord Haftar not on board with ceasefire, wants war to continue
Benghazi, Libya, Aug 24, 2020 - A spokesman for eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has slammed a ceasefire...
Mali: Coup leaders insist on military rule over the coming years
Four Mali soldiers killed in bomb blast: military source Aug 22, 2020 - Four Malian soldiers were killed and one...
Mali: Ousted Malian president “looks tired but relaxed.”
Bamako, Aug 21, 2020 - The United Nations said Friday it had gained access to Mali's ousted president while rebel...
Breaking: Libyan rivals reach agreement on ceasefire and elections
Tripoli, Aug 21, 2020 - Libya's warring rival governments announced in separate statements Friday that they would...
Mali: While Mali people want their President out for incompetence, world leaders run to his rescue
Coup leaders in Mali faced a wave of international pressure on Wednesday, a day after they forced out a president...
Egypt: Sisi strengthens his powers with loyalists winning upper house seats
Cairo, Aug 19, 2020 - Egypt's electoral commission said Wednesday that candidates on an electoral list loyal to...
Libya: Patchwork of divided tribes complicate the Libyan crisis
As Egypt flexes its muscle with threats to intervene in Libya's civil war, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has...
Algeria: Birthplace of the Hirak movement, Kherrata experiences first post-confinement rally
We may have missed this story and reported as a minor event, and in fact, no national newspapers reported it, but...
Mali: The military is now in charge
Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 - Mali awoke on Wednesday to a new chapter in its troubled history after rebel military leaders...
Mali: President Boubacar Keita resigns and the people are cheering
Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 - Mali's president said he was resigning to avoid "bloodshed" early Wednesday, hours after his...
Sahel: The unfolding Malian crisis
Aug 18, 2020 - Mali has been gripped for months by a political crisis that has sparked the country's worst unrest in...
Sahel: Fears of a soldiers’ mutiny in Mali as political crisis lingers
Bamako, Aug 18, 2020 - Gunfire broke out at a key army base near Mali's capital Bamako on Tuesday, officials and...
Egypt: Another senior opposition figure dies in Egyptian prison
Cairo, Aug 13, 2020 - A senior leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood died Thursday in an Egyptian prison where he...
Algeria: Supporters of jailed journalist Drareni launch international appeal
Algiers, Aug 12, 2020 - Supporters of jailed Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni launched an appeal on Wednesday for...
Algeria’s outrageous justice system: jails some, releases others for the same offenses: signs of unstable regime
Algiers, Aug 11, 2020 - Supporters of jailed Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni on Tuesday demanded his release in an...
Mali’s new Constitutional Court president
Bamako, Aug 9, 2020 - Newly-appointed judges at Mali's Constitutional Court, which is at the centre of a political...
Mali braces for more political turmoil, as calls for protests build up
Mali's opposition vowed to stage nationwide protests Tuesday seeking embattled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's...
Mali president appoints new constitutional court chief in a bid to save his job
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita appointed nine judges to the Constitutional Court on Friday, by decree, as...
Algeria military establishment continues to undergo leadership purge
On Tuesday, 4 August, Algerian President Tebboune officially dismissed General Abderrahmane Arrar, the head of the...
Sahel: Government reshuffle in Mauritania
Nouakchott, Aug 6, 2020 - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani on Thursday carried out a government...
Libya: Turkish and Italian officials visit Libya’s UN-recognised government
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is a staunch supporter of Libya's UN-recognised Government of...
Algeria: Reporters Without Borders calls for Algeria to release journalist Khaled Drareni
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), fellow journalists and rights groups called Thursday for Algerian...
Algeria: President Tebboune fires minister over unreported real estate purchases
North Africa Journal: On 29 July 2020, President Tebboune dismissed the Minister of Labor, Employment and Social...
Mali: Opposition rejects compromise by West African leaders, insists president must leave
Mali's opposition on Wednesday reiterated calls for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign, again spurning a...
Egypt: New election law prevents anyone from competing against Sisi in future elections
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday ratified a law banning active and former military personnel from...
Mali crisis: Opposition insists on president’s departure
A protest movement that has sprung up in Mali, shaking President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's grip on power, on Tuesday...
France’s Bernard-Henri Levy unwelcome in Libya
Libya's UN-recognised government has disavowed a visit by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, a champion of the...
Tunisia: Hichem Mechini tasked to form new government
Hichem Mechichi, who until now has served as Tunisia's interior minister, has been appointed to form the next...
Sahel: Five West African presidents gather in Mali to save it from complete collapse
Bamako, July 23, 2020 - West African leaders gathered in Bamako on Thursday in a fresh push to end an escalating...
Egypt wants Spain to extradite vocal political opponent Mohamed Ali
Barcelona, July 21, 2020 - Cairo is seeking the extradition from Spain of an Egyptian businessman and dissident, the...
One step closer to war, Egypt assembly gives Sisi permission to intervene in Libya
Egypt's parliament on Monday greenlighted a possible deployment of troops beyond its borders, after President Abdel ...
Sahel: Mali crisis deepens after ECOWAS failed at mediation
Bamako, July 20, 2020 - Malian leaders are gearing up for more mediation talks on Thursday, when four African...
Mali: Mediators propose that the opposition participates in government
Bamako, July 19, 2020 - West African mediators trying to resolve Mali's political crisis on Sunday called for a...
Libya: Some EU countries threaten to impose sections on nations involved in Libyan crisis
Berlin, July 18, 2020 - France, Italy and Germany are "ready to consider" sanctions on foreign powers violating an...