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Egypt Anchors Its Energy Strategy With Long-Term Israeli Gas as Israel Weighs the Trade-Offs
Israel has approved a long-term natural gas export agreement that will channel roughly 131 billion cubic meters of gas...
Environment: Algeria’s Race Against a Looming Water Collapse
Algeria is heading toward an acute water crisis, and the clock is ticking much faster than most policymakers admit....
Sahel: Mali ex-interim president and PM freed from house arrest
Former Malian interim president Bah Ndaw and his prime minister Moctar Ouane have been freed from house arrest, the...
Libyan’s electricity crisis
By Hamza Mekouar: Walk down any commercial street in the Libyan capital Tripoli and the pavements will be lined with...
Libya: Preserving Libya’s Sufi heritage
By Hamza Mekouar: Bullet holes scar the minaret of the Sufi mosque in Libya's Zliten, but followers of the Muslim...
Libya: Rival forces agree to protect water network
The United Nations on Thursday welcomed the creation of a joint security force from rival sides in Libya to secure the...
Algeria says it will end natural gas transiting deal with Morocco
Algeria said Thursday it was ready to divert all its Spain-bound natural gas exports via an undersea pipeline that...
Morocco: Big test for monarchy and Islamist party as Moroccans are set to pick new assembly
Campaigning began in Morocco Thursday for September 8 elections that will seal the fate of the Moroccan Islamist party...
Mali arrests former Prime Minister over alleged corruption
By Serge Daniel Former Malian prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga was arrested on Thursday as part of a corruption...
Sahel: 16 soldiers killed in jihadist-hit southeast Niger
An attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger's jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and...
Algeria cuts ties with Morocco after months of diplomatic turmoil
Morocco says Algeria's cutting of diplomatic ties 'unjustified' Morocco's foreign ministry said Tuesday that Algeria's...
Morocco: Woman to walk free after more than 3 years in prison over religious views
A dual Moroccan-Italian citizen jailed for three and a half years for "insulting Islam" will walk free Monday after a...
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....
Algeria and Morocco squabble again, relations set to deteriorate further
A long history of distrust and wasted time Algeria is to review its relations with Morocco, accusing it of involvement...
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...
Egypt army says 13 jihadists killed in Sinai
Egyptian forces have killed 13 Islamist militants during clashes in the restive Sinai Peninsula, the army said. In a...
Morocco: Rights group criticizes Spain for sending minors back to Morocco
Save the Children on Saturday urged Spain to halt the repatriation to Morocco of hundreds of unaccompanied minors who...
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...
Egyptian military accused of committing extra-judicial killings
Amnesty International called Thursday for an investigation after it said an Egyptian army video apparently showed...
Morocco piles more charges on jailed journalist Omar Radi
A Moroccan court on Thursday sentenced journalist and rights activist Omar Radi -- already imprisoned on charges of...
Tunisian president scores big wins with military support and Islamist party doing soul searching
Ennahda party looking for new directions Tunisia's Ennahdha party ready for 'self-critique' Tunisia's...
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...
Egypt: Intense violence in North Sinai
Egypt's military said Sunday it has killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an...
Mali: Truck-bus collision kills 37 people at Zambougou
Thirty-seven people were killed and several others injured when a bus collided with a lorry in central Mali during...
Egypt: Sisi walking a risky road, announces increase in the price of bread
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday his administration is ready to raise the price of subsidised...
Sahel: Another attack in SW Niger at border with Burkina Faso
Fifteen soldiers have been killed and six more are missing after a "terrorist" attack in southwest Niger, near the...
Refugees: Hundreds rescued from drowning off the coast of Libya
By Estelle Emonet Rescue ships picked up more than 700 people trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift vessels...
Libya gets 2 million Sinopharm doses with more expected
Libya called Monday on people to come forward to be vaccinated after it received two million doses of the Chinese...
Tunisia: Critic of president, Parliamentarian Yassine Ayari arrested
Tunisian security forces on Friday arrested a member of parliament who condemned President Kais Saied's power grab as...
Egypt sentences 24 Muslim Brotherhood members to death
An Egyptian court on Thursday (29 July) sentenced 24 Muslim Brotherhood members to death for the killing of police...
Algeria: Delta variant is driving Covid cases to new records, but fear is accelerating vaccinations
And in the Mideast too The World Health Organization said Thursday the Delta variant has led to a "surge" in...
Western Sahara: Spanish court closes case against Polisario leader Brahim Ghali
Spain's top criminal court said Thursday it had archived a case involving genocide allegations against the leader of...
Tunisia: Weakened, Islamist leader Ghannouchi struggles to respond to presidential action
Tunisia's Ghannouchi says he wants democracy By Caroline Nelly Perrot, AFP Tunisia's parliament speaker Rached...
Tunisian president accuses hundreds of businessmen of corruption
By Romain Fonsegrives: Tunisia's President Kais Saied accused 460 businessmen of embezzlement as he declared a...
Niger: 18 civilian killed in terror attack in Banibangou
A fresh attack in western Niger near the border with Mali has left 18 civilians dead, a local elected official said...
Chad: Protest in N’Djamena against military junta
Several hundred people marched in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Thursday to protest the ruling military junta as police...
Libya: Militia gang leader Mohammed al-Kani gunned down
A Libyan militia gang leader accused of major human rights violations has been shot dead at a farm in the eastern city...
Covid-19: Libya announces night curfew to stem rise of coronavirus, but not in Haftar’s controlled territories
Libya's government Monday announced a two-week overnight curfew in the areas it controls in the centre and west of the...
Tunisia’s largest party protests outside army-blocked parliament
The head of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha, the largest party in parliament, led a sit-in protest Monday in...
Covid-19: Rush to vaccinate in Libya as pandemic continues to spread
Libyan authorities on Saturday stepped up their vaccination campaign around the capital Tripoli, as coronavirus cases...
Sahel: French troops kill two ISGS regional leaders in Mali
France said Friday that its forces had killed two senior leaders of the Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS) group...









