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Morocco’s Influencers Face Rising Legal Risks
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Moroccan Streamer Ilyas El Maliki Arrested Again
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Sahel: France signals willingness to allow talks with Jihadists in the Sahel
France could back talks with some jihadist elements in Africa's restive Sahel region, a source in President Emmanuel...
Spain annoyed by Morocco’s PM El Othmani over his comments on Ceuta and Melilla
Spain has summoned the Moroccan ambassador to explain comments by its prime minister over the Spanish north African...
Tunisia arrests dozen people over waste shipped from Italy
Tunisia arrested a dozen people including its environment minister Monday in a scandal over hundreds of containers of...
Sahel: Mali is now a military dictatorship
Hopes that soldiers behind Mali's coup would swiftly restore civilian rule and tackle jihadism and ethnic violence are...
Sahel: Funding the insurgency with illegally acquired gold
Several "suspected terrorists" were arrested and more than 40,000 sticks of dynamite and detonator cords for illegal...
Tunisia: Shepherd in Kasserine beheaded, authorities say attackers are terrorists
The decapitated body of a young man has been found in Tunisia's central Kasserine region, in a probable "terrorist"...
Tunisia: Italian garbage landing in Tunisia forces president to fire environment minister
Tunisia’s environment minister and others arrested over Italian trash scandal Tunisia arrested a dozen people...
Sahel: Why the G5 Sahel force remains completely ineffective
Three years ago West African nations launched a joint force touted as a giant's stride in the fight against Islamist...
Algeria’s mediocre diplomacy: Even the Tunisians are slowly turning their back to Algiers ($)
Tunisia: Gulf monarchies are not ripping apart just Libya, they are now focused on Tunisia via their local proxies ($)
Evidence of alleged Russian and French involvement in covert online operations targeting North Africa and Sahel
The government of Chad announced Thursday it would open an inquiry after Facebook said it had closed down fake...
Egypt: Religious minorities vulnerable as court acquits men who attacked Christian woman
Algerian regime launches frontal assault on online media
Algeria has announced tighter state controls over online media, sparking alarm in the North African country whose...
Burkina Faso: Christian Kabore “wins” presidential election
Coronavirus: Latest global developments
Divided Maghreb countries celebrate one common thing: the Couscous
Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across northern Africa's Maghreb region and beyond, Wednesday joined the UN list of...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in...
Libya: 18 foreign fishermen released from warlord Haftar’s prisons
Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed,...
Libyan politician Omar Garmil dies from the Coronavirus
Libyan Member of Parliament (MP) Omar Garmil has died in Morocco weeks after being infected with Covid-19, multiple...
Sahel: Boko Haram raids village in southern Niger, kills 27
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group on Monday claimed responsibility for the weekend attack on a village in...
Libya releases Russian operatives after serving 18 months in prison for vote meddling
An ally of President Vladimir Putin has shelled out nearly $500,000 to two Russian political operatives recently freed...
Algeria: Recovering from Covid, President says he will return from Germany in two-to-three weeks
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Sunday he was recovering from the Covid-19 illness, in his first...
The Western Sahara: What’s at stake?
Disputed and divided Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony, mostly under Morocco's control, where tensions have...
Morocco recognizes Israel in exchange for Trump’s backing on the Western Sahara crisis
First impressions, by Arezki Daoud Today, 10 December 2020, Morocco said it will resume -"with minimum delay-...
Egypt: How both the military and IS terrorize the people of Sinai
Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an Islamic State group affiliate occupied...
Algeria: Purge of former regime operatives continues
This week, Algeria experienced a series of court decisions that have accelerated the fight against corruption....
Morocco: Franco-Moroccan agreement on repatriation of child migrants
Paris and Rabat signed an agreement Monday on repatriating underage Moroccan migrants, the most complex of the...
Egypt: Bloodbath in Sinai, army claims it killed 40 “takfiris”
The Egyptian army said Tuesday it had killed 40 suspected jihadist militants since September in air and ground...
Tunisian health workers stage protest over crumbling infrastructure
Thousands of striking Tunisian medics and hospital staff staged an angry protest on Tuesday over the country's...
Libya: Forces of warlord Haftar seize Turkish commercial ship, hold 17 crewmen
Turkey on Tuesday denounced the seizure of a commercial ship by the forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, warning...
Sahel: An army Colonel heads Mali’s legislative body
Mali's interim legislature on Saturday elected Colonel Malick Diaw, a member of the military junta that toppled...
Tunisia: Night curfew extended through December
Tunisia on Sunday extended a night-time curfew until the end of the year in a bid to tackle spiking novel coronavirus...
Algeria: Iconic opposition activist Karim Tabbou gets one-year suspended sentence
Algerian opposition activist Karim Tabbou, a key figure in anti-government protests last year, was given a one-year...
Algeria alleges and decries ransom payment to ‘terrorists’ by foreign government
Algeria's prime minister has sounded the alarm over reported ransoms paid to "terrorist groups" for the freeing of...
Egypt: French President Macron fails to confront Sisi on Egypt’s human rights abuses
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday rejected criticism of his close ties with visiting Egyptian strongman Abdel...
Mali’s in big trouble: A legislative body appointed by a junta-backed government
Mali's interim government on Thursday announced the composition of a new legislative body for the West African...
Turkey-France: Erdogan’s attacks on Macron intensify
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he hopes France will get rid of Emmanuel Macron as soon as...
Sahel: UK deploys hundreds of troops to war-torn Mali
Britain is deploying 300 troops to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali to help strengthen security and human rights...
Sahel: New terror attack in La Tapoa, Niger
Two forestry workers were killed and two soldiers were reported missing after an attack early Friday in southwestern...