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By Arezki Daoud: Since 2011, Libya has been engulfed in a bloody civil war after the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Over...
Niger and Algeria recall their ambassadors over undocumented migrants
The authorities in Niger summoned the Algerian ambassador Bekhadda Mehdi on 2 April, over Algeria’s treatment of...
In the Media: Pressure grows on Moroccan leaders over conflict in the Middle East
US World & News Report discusses the public pressure and protests in Morocco and other Arab nations in response to...
Tunisia: Prison escape rattles President Saied
Tunisia's president said Wednesday that the escape of five prisoners convicted of "terrorism" was a well-planned...
Anger in the Arab world over strike on a Gaza hospital
In Libya: Several hundred people protested in Tripoli and other Libyan cities late Tuesday over the deadly strike on a...
Tunisia’s economy minister sacked amid unprecedented financial crisis
Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked the economy minister on Tuesday and appointed the finance minister to the role on...
Tunisia: Strike on Gaza hospital ignites protest in Tunis
Thousands of angry protesters gathered outside the French embassy in Tunisia on Tuesday, also denouncing the US, after...
Tunisia: Rally in Tunis to free jailed opposition leader Abir Moussi
Hundreds of supporters of Abir Moussi, a prominent opponent of the Tunisian president, gathered on Sunday in the...
Morocco: Appeals court reduced prison sentence to rights activist Saida El Alami, but conviction remains
A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday reduced to eight months the sentence for a human rights activist convicted of...
Sahel: Touaregs say they seized military site in Gao province
Tuareg rebels on Wednesday claimed to have captured a camp of Mali's armed forces in the north of the country, where...
Sahel: French forces are leaving Niger this week
France said Thursday that it would start withdrawing its troops from Niger this week after a falling-out with the...
Libya: Revisiting Derna a month after the floods: mental trauma and thousands still missing
By Rim Taher: Nearly a month after floods hit Derna in eastern Libya, survivors are struggling to overcome the...
Algeria fires CEO of energy giant Sonatrach
Corruption and Politics: By Arezki Daoud: Oil company Sonatrach is once again going through turmoil. This week, CEO...
Libya: Divisions deepen among Libyan leaders over flood relief
By Imed Lamloum: More than three weeks after Libya's deadly flood disaster, the divided country's two rival...
Spain: Migrants arrested in Spain for alleged mutiny on rescue ship
Nine migrants were arrested in the Canary Islands on "piracy" charges for forcing the ship that rescued them to change...
Libyan ambassador to Brussels dismissed and arrested over alleged corruption
Libya's prosecutor general ordered the detention of the country's ambassador to Brussels on Tuesday over alleged...
Migrations: Italy wants rescue ships to return migrants to own countries
First migrants in a week land on Italy's Lampedusa A small group of Tunisians arrived by boat on the Italian island of...
Libya: More arrests in Libya-related floods
Libya's prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of four more officials, bringing to 12 the number held as part of an...
Libya: Warlord Haftar in Moscow
Libya's eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar travelled to Russia on Tuesday for talks on the situation in the war-and...
Algeria: While pro-democracy Hirak movement represents no risk to regime, Algeria continues to hold people in prisons
A United Nations expert on Tuesday urged Algeria to pardon people convicted or detained over their involvement in the...
Algeria and Morocco on opposite sides of the Western Sahara conflict, face off at UN
Moroccan and Algerian representatives to the United Nations sparred over the fate of Western Sahara on Tuesday, with...
Tunisia: Eight migrants killed in Kairouan road accident
A road accident overnight in central Tunisia killed nine people including eight sub-Saharan African migrants,...
Libya orders 8 officials arrested after flood
By Rim Taher: Libya's prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of eight officials as part of his inquiry into the...
Libya’s latest official death toll exceeds 3,800
Nearly two weeks after a flash flood devastated the Libyan port city of Derna, the official death toll keeps rising,...
Podcast: And Now the Environment is Major Factor of Instability in North Africa
As we reach the end of the third quarter 2023, about to enter the tail-end of the year, it is difficult to see a...
Tunisia suffers hours-long power outage
A sudden power outage hit Tunisia Wednesday, causing a nationwide blackout for about three hours due to technical...
Morocco’s five-year plan to rebuild quake-hit areas will cost the state US$12 billion
Quake-hit Morocco's government announced on Wednesday a budget of more than $11 billion for reconstruction, rehousing...
Libya flood: As death toll exceeds 3,300, tens of thousands of people are displaced
Libya's flood disaster, which killed thousands in the city of Derna, also displaced more than 43,000 people, the...
Tunisia’s foreign migrant problem
Thousands of migrants are living without proper shelter north of Tunisia's port city of Sfax after many were driven...
Libya: Ancient Greco-Roman city of Cyrene faces risk of collapse
Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country's premier ancient sites,...
Libya: Incompetent eastern authorities tighten control on media, block communications access
Communications were severed Tuesday to the flood-hit Libyan city of Derna and journalists were asked to leave, a day...
Week after quake hit Morocco, survivors worry about dire hygiene conditions
By Anne-Sophie Labadie: In her earthquake-hit Moroccan town, Zina Mechghazzi has improvised a sink by placing a pink...
Libya: Entire families of Syrian migrants perished in flood
More than 100 Syrians, including entire families, died in flash flooding that killed thousands in Libya's eastern city...
Libya: ‘Worse than war’: Flood trauma haunts survivors
By Fulya Ozerkan: Grief etched into her face, 15-year-old Ibrar struggled to find the words to describe her pain at...
Libya: Phone and internet links severed in flood-hit Derna, day after protest
Telephone and internet links were severed Tuesday to Libya's flood-hit city of Derna, a day after hundreds protested...
Libya: Unrest in Derna
By Amanda Mouawad: Hundreds of protesters rallied in Libya's disaster-hit Derna on Monday, accusing the authorities of...
Libya: What is the storm that destroyed NE Libya? Meet Daniel
The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed a "medicane", a rare but destructive...
Morocco: How is King Mohammed VI Managing the Earthquake Crisis?
Could the earthquake be a defining moment for King Mohammed VI? So far, there have been mix signals about his...
Libya: The utter destruction of Derna
By Abdullah Doma: Rescuers sifted through mud and rubble Friday in their search for people missing from the...
Podcast: Libya’s Floods and Maghreb’s Leadership Deficit
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: The earthquake in #Morocco and the floods in #Libya should be an opportunity for "leaders" in...
Libya Floods: Latest Update
By Rim Taher: Flash flooding in east Libya caused by Storm Daniel tore through the coastal city of Derna, leaving...
Podcast: Understanding North Africa’s earthquakes, history and outlook
Understanding North Africa's Quakes, History and What to Expect