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Africa: New Warning of Evolving Hybrid Threats Linking Terrorism, Crime, and Climate Pressures Across Africa
At a recent Mediterranean Dialogues Forum in Naples, Mauritania’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug...
Washington Returns to Libya’s Frontlines in Bid to Counter Russia and Reunify Militias
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has announced that Libya, long divided between rival political and military factions,...
German prosecutors charge man with spying for Egypt
A man who worked in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's press office has been charged with spying for Egypt, prosecutors...
Though unconfirmed, western media report death of Al Qaeda leaders
The reported deaths of Al-Qaeda's top two leaders in recent months have raised questions about the future strategy and...
The Western Sahara conflict reignites
For three decades, a UN-monitored ceasefire has kept a fragile peace in the disputed Western Sahara. Now a row over a...
Western Sahara: Clashes erupt between Morocco and the Polisario Front
The pro-independence Polisario Front said Saturday that clashes are continuing in the disputed territory of Western...
Egypt: Man tries to sets himself alight during anti-government protest
An Egyptian man set himself alight in central Cairo in an anti-government protest on Thursday, but was stopped before...
Algeria confirms record low turnout for referendum on a new constitution, approves it anyway
The 23.8-percent turnout was a record low for a major vote in Algeria, with fewer than 15 percent of eligible voters...
Health: Shortly after the UN declared polio eradicated in Africa, cases emerge in Chad
Dozens of polio cases have been detected in Chad just months after the UN declared the disease eradicated in Africa,...
Sahel: French forces intensify their operations in the Sahel, report killing Al Qaeda’s Ba Ag Moussa
France announced Friday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed the military commander of an Al-Qaeda-aligned...
Libya: Death toll from recent migrant shipwrecks reaches 100
Italian coastguard rescues migrant boats near Lampedusa Italy's coastguard rescued about 170 migrants on two separate...
Tensions escalate in the Western Sahara: Morocco and Polisario brace for confrontation
Polisario Front declares end of truce The pro-independence Polisario Front declared a three-decade-old ceasefire in...
Podcast: Covid-19 in the Maghreb region as of mid-November 2020
In this brief podcast recorded on 12 November 2020, MEA Risk's Arezki Daoud provides an update on the Coronavirus in...
Sahel: Mali politics sinking to new low with military’s attempt at power grab
A leading opposition group on Wednesday warned of a military stranglehold on Mali's post-coup government and called...
Egypt: Helicopter of observer force crashes in Sinai, seven killed
A helicopter crash in Egypt's Sinai desert involving a multi-national observer force killed seven people on Thursday...
Libya crisis: Talks in Tunisia show some progress
Libyans agreed in UN-led talks on Wednesday a plan to hold elections within 18 months, as diplomatic efforts grow to...
The Mediterranean Sea’s fishing wars
Domenico Asaro recalls the day in 1996 when Libyan forces began firing on his Italian fishing boat "Osiride" (Osiris),...
Libyan lawyer and media figure Hanan Al-Barasi murdered in Benghazi
A Libyan lawyer was shot dead in her car in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday, a security source told AFP,...
Turkey sees rough times ahead with a Biden presidency
With Joe Biden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will probably be unable to influence US policy with a simple...
Tunisia is still using repressive laws to punish freedom of speech
Amnesty International on Monday urged authorities in Tunisia to stop using "largely outdated, overly broad and...
Morocco announces upcoming launch of mystery Covid vaccine
Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Monday endorsed a decision by scientists to launch a nationwide vaccination campaign...
Egypt: New initiatives to restore the ‘City of the Dead’
In Egypt's "City of the Dead", centuries-old monuments are being restored and artisanal heritage revived, turning a...
Libyans looking for an end to their conflict. Will foreign meddlers allow them?
The UN launched talks among Libyans on Monday aimed at creating a unity government and preparing for elections to...
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: France drags European troops into a conflict they cannot win
Inside a military base in northern Mali, a concrete bollard emblazoned with French, Estonian and Swedish flags marks a...
Egypt: 15-year jail sentence for a sit-in
An Egyptian court sentenced 59 suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood to 15 years in prison on Thursday for...
Sahel: Series of grisly decapitations in southern Mali
Security officers have discovered a fresh decapitated body in the southern Malian town of Fana, a local official said...
Tunisia’s problem with its radicalized youth
The killing of three people at a church in France has focused attention on extremism in the suspected attacker's...
Algeria: War hero and anti-regime icon dies from Covid-19
Lakhdar Bouregaa, a highly respected veteran of Algeria's war of independence against France and a key figure in an...
Burkina Faso president launches campaign for second term
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore launched his re-election campaign on Thursday, promising "peace" in...
Immigration: Interceptions of migrants off the coast of Libya on the rise
A total of 575 migrants have been intercepted off Libya's western coast in just a week, the UN's migration agency said...
Algeria: Government finally recognizes president has Covid
Algeria’s poor communications and PR skills The Algerian authorities have been so bad at communicating the illness of...
Immigration: Concern over immigration in France after Nice attack
Tunisian President Kais Saied spoke with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Saturday about migration and...
Security: France in Al-Qaeda’s crosshairs
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb urged its followers Monday to kill anyone insulting the Prophet Mohammed and...
Libya: New meeting in Ghadames to set up the basis of a ceasefire
Rival Libyan military officers arrived Monday for talks held for the first time on home soil following a ceasefire...
Economy: Drought threatens Morocco’s agriculture
Parched fields stretch as far as the eye can see on plains overlooking Agadir in southwestern Morocco, as precious...
Algeria: Failed referendum with another doctored election
Algerians approved a revised version of the North African country's constitution with two thirds of votes cast, the...
Algeria: President Tebboune’s health conditions worsen, prompts evacuation to Germany
In the evening of Wednesday, 28 October, Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune was transferred to Germany for...
While Algeria needs hospitals, schools and cash, its leaders are opening Africa’s biggest mosque
Algeria's Grand Mosque, the world's third-biggest and Africa's largest, will host its first public prayers on...
Morocco: IS-linked inmate kills guard at Tiflet prison
A Moroccan prison guard was killed by an inmate who was in jail for belonging to a militant cell linked to the Islamic...
Algeria: President Tebboune admitted to military hospital, authorities say ‘it’s no big deal’
First reaction by Arezki Daoud: No one goes to a hospital just to isolate The Algerian authorities want us to believe...
Niger: US national kidnapped in Tahoua
An American citizen has been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Niger, a senior official told AFP on Tuesday. The...