U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has announced that Libya, long divided between rival political and military factions,...
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Egypt Draws a Red Line on Nile Rights in GERD Dispute
Egypt is insisting that Nile water security is an uncompromising national priority, with the country’s leadership...
France Signals a Thaw in Its Rift with Algeria
France has signaled a possible thaw in its strained relationship with Algeria after several tense months marked by...
Podcast: One more election in Algeria and a highly compromised economic outlook
In this episode, Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk LLC and Editor of the North Africa Journal revisits Algeria after the most...
Algeria: Islamo-conservatives on the attack, unite in their disdain for minority languages and secularism
Algerian extremist court punishes man for his religious views, more human rights abuses by conservative judges An...
Algerians in shock after murder of 19-year old woman
The rape and murder in Algeria of a 19-year-old woman sparked cries for action on gender-based violence in the North...
Sahel: Ecowas lifts sanctions on Mali, interim government releases detainees
Eleven political and military figures arrested during the coup in Mali in August have been released, including former...
Tunisia announces arrest of two Islamic State insurgents in Jandouba and Kebili
Tunisia on Tuesday arrested two men allegedly linked to the Islamic State group who were plotting "terrorist...
Finally Egypt does the right thing: it released journalist Basma Mostafa
Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the country's south,...
Sahel: Mali braces for potential release of hostages by Jihadis
[Photo of French hostage Sophie Petronin] - A second batch of jihadists has been freed in Mali, sources said Tuesday,...
Libya: Financial challenges undermine UN’s rights agency’s work in Libya
The United Nations does not have enough funds to investigate rights violations in strife-torn Libya this year, the...
Algerians defy regime repression, return to the street to demand change
Hundreds of Algerians defied a nationwide ban on protests and took to the streets Monday to demand democratic change...
Egypt: With their rulers sowing the seeds of misery, Egyptians brave the seas to flee to Europe
Thousands of desperate migrants bound for Europe have perished in the Mediterranean Sea. In one impoverished Egyptian...
Egypt arrests journalist Basma Mostafa just for reporting on anti-Sisi protests
6 October Update Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the...
Sahel: Upsurge of malaria cases in Mali
Malaria cases in northern Mali have spiked, according to medical workers, claiming 23 lives in the often lawless...
Tunisia: Despite mandatory use of face masks, Tunisia to build field hospitals to cope with spike in Covid-19 cases
Tunisian authorities have warned that hospitals are struggling to cope with an influx of Covid-19 patients and urged...
Algeria: Regime pushes for another unpopular poll: a constitution crafted for army-appointed President Tebboune
Algeria is readying for a constitutional referendum that the establishment says will usher in a "New Republic" and...
Egypt accused of torturing LGBT people
Human Rights Watch lambasted Egypt in a report Thursday for routinely arresting, abusing and torturing LGBT people,...
Egypt: More death sentences in Egypt over murder of police agents
An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced six people allegedly belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood...
With Russia’s presence in Libya and turmoil in the Sahel, US seeks to reengage with the Maghreb
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper signed a 10-year military cooperation deal with Tunis Wednesday during his first stop...
Libya: After Morocco, Egypt gets its own Libya conference
Two days of talks between representatives of Libya's rival administrations that took place in Egypt this week were...
Tunisia’s tourism sector collapses with 60% drop in earnings
Tunisia's tourism sector has collapsed, officials warned Saturday, with earnings plunging 60 percent and swathes of...
Algerian lawyers hit back at government abuses, announce strike next week
Algeria's bar association said Monday it would hold a nationwide two-day strike this week to demand "respect for the...
Tunisia: President Kais Saied shows his real self, backs use of death-by-hanging in murder cases
Tunisia's President Kais Saied has said he backs capital punishment, after public outrage over a woman's murder...
Libya: Armed militias clash in populated neighborhood of east Tripoli
The United Nations has condemned clashes between two armed groups in a residential suburb of the Libyan capital and...
Egypt: At least one protester killed by police in south of Cairo
On Saturday, family and medical sources said a man was killed in clashes between protesters and police in a village...
Mali: Moctar Ouane appointed Interim Prime Minister
Mali's interim president Bah Ndaw on Sunday named former Malian foreign minister Moctar Ouane as prime minister,...
Algerian regime jails activist Brahim Laalami and opposition politician Khaled Tazaghart
An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced to three years in jail a member of the "Hirak" protest movement that forced...
Libya: More tragedy at sea, with migrants dead, others missing
Tripoli, Sept 25, 2020 - The International Organization for Migration said Friday the bodies of three migrants whose...
Podcast: An overstretched Egypt and the seeds of future unrest
In this 20-minute podcast, MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud discusses how overstretched Egypt is and what could be the...
Algeria intensifies judicial harassment of Hirak activists
Since the sentencing of journalist Khaled Drareni and the re-arrest of Mohamed Laalami, several political activists...
Libya: Amnesty Intl catalogs horrific abuses on migrants in Libya
Amnesty International on Thursday urged the EU to reconsider cooperation with Libya over "horrific abuses" of refugees...
Migration: Uncertain fate for migrants who arrived in Italian island
A ship with 125 rescued migrants aboard reached the Italian island of Sardinia on Thursday, the aid organisation...
Algeria: Migrants perish off the coast of Algeria, hundreds rescued
Algiers, Sept 22, 2020 - Algeria said Tuesday coast guard officers had collected the bodies of 10 people drowned while...
Turkey and Greece say they are ready to talk over East Med dispute
Turkey and Greece have agreed to start talks over disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish presidency...
Sahel: Boko Haram ambushes Chad soldiers, kills ten
Ten Chadian soldiers were killed while attacking a base of the Boko Haram Islamist group in the Lake Chad region, the...
Tunisia intercepts hundreds of would-be-migrants
Tunisia said Monday that naval patrols had intercepted 19 boats carrying a total of 246 people seeking to cross from...
Mali: Military junta announces transitional leaders, recalls retired colonel as Interim President
Bamako, Sept 21, 2020 - Dubbed "the big one" for his imposing height, Mali's future interim president Bah Ndaw has...
Libya: Russian and other mercenaries still impeding oil sector activity in Libya
"force majeure continues on the oil fields and ports that confirmed the presence of elements of Wagner gangs and other...
Libya: EU targeting three companies for breach of arms embargo
The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on three companies -- one Turkish, one Kazakh and one Jordanian -- for...
Algeria: Incapable of governing, President Tebboune justifies repression with imaginary “destabilization” conspiracy
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has accused press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) of working to...
Libya: Turkey’s Erdogan not too happy that Libya’s Sarraj is apparently quitting
What happened? The head of Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, said he plans to step...
Morocco: Police seize cocaine and two tons of hash in separate ops in coastal north
Nearly two tonnes of cannabis and over 20 kilograms of cocaine were seized this week in three separate operations in...