The province of Skikda is experiencing anxiety after the announcement on Thursday of a death caused by diphtheria....
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Egypt’s Red Sea Crisis Intersects with U.S. Trade Strategy in Global Infrastructure Rivalry
Egypt’s foreign minister warned last week that Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have cost the...
Sahel: Fever Outbreak Overwhelms Mauritanian Hospitals
Hospitals in Mauritania are under growing strain as an outbreak of an unidentified fever spreads through the country’s...
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...
Libya: Warlord Khalifa Haftar wants money from oil revenues as condition to lift blockade of oil fields
Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar announced Friday a conditional lifting of a months-long blockade on oilfields and...
Algeria: Former cop who joined anti-regime protests sent to prison
A former Algerian policeman who joined the country's protest movement was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail,...
Turkey-France relations taking a beating as Erdogan keeps insulting Macron
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said France was being led by an "incapable" president as he stepped...
Sahel: French and US forces assess their cooperation on the Sahel as Trump remains uncommitted
The senior US commander for Africa met France's top general on Thursday to discuss the fight against militant groups...
Niger: Daesh says it killed French aid workers in Koure on 9 August
The Islamic State extremist group on Thursday claimed the killing in August of six French aid workers and their two...
Libya: Under US pressure, version 2.0 of the UN Mission in Libya will have a ‘Special Envoy’ and a ‘Coordinator.’ As if that matters!
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution Tuesday under pressure from the United States endorsing a change in...
Economy: Plethora of problems are hitting Algerian winemakers hard
Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria - Algerian winemaker Dahmane Hamamouche used to rise early and rush to work each morning, but...
Algeria: United Nations independent experts pressuring Algeria to release wrongly jailed journalist
A journalist jailed for his coverage of mass protests in Algeria must be released, United Nations independent experts...
Morocco: Business sector bracing for hard times ahead ($)
The Moroccan economic sector is struggling with the effects of Covid-19. Some businesses are being punished for...
Companies: Series of blunders result in millions of dollars of losses to Algeria oil firm Sonatrach ($)
After the disastrous oil leaks last week that took place on one of its pipelines in El-Oued and the problems that...
Egypt: Craving for normalcy, Egypt OKs resumption of camel racing
Desert El Tîh, Egypt - Spread out at the foot of a vast plateau in the Sinai desert, hundreds of excited Bedouins...
Morocco: Anger in Tangiers over rape and murder of a boy
The sexual assault and murder of a boy in the Moroccan city of Tangiers has stirred calls for the death penalty for...
Egypt: Court upholds three-year prison sentence for former Minister Safwat al-Sherif
Egypt's top appeals court upheld on Tuesday a three-year prison sentence over corruption charges for a Mubarak-era...
Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prison
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen...
Mali: Impasse in Bamako as opposition rejects junta-backed roadmap
Mali's popular opposition movement has rejected a charter for a transition government backed by the army officers who...
Turkey pulls out controversial ship from East Med, but pledges it will return soon
Turkey said on Monday that an energy exploration vessel that had pulled out of waters claimed by Greece was only...
Libya: Head of eastern government resigns over public protests
Benghazi, Libya, Sept 14, 2020 - The head of Libya's parallel government installed in the country's east has handed in...
Libya: Police in Al-Marj open fire on civilians who were protesting economic despair
Protesters in Libya's second city Benghazi set fire to the headquarters of the parallel eastern administration...
The Algerian regime does it again: it blocks Internet access for the whole country to secure a pointless high-school exam
Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African...
Morocco: The coronavirus’ destructive impact on a major city
Snake charmers, storytellers and crowds of tourists; the legendary Jamaa El Fna square of Morocco's Marrakesh is...
Mali: North and central Mali remain tense while Bamako struggles to recover from coup
Timbuktu, Mali, Sept 14, 2020 - Malian army lieutenant Abdoul Kadri leads a patrol through the bustling streets of the...
Libya: Unrest in Benghazi over economic despair
Libyans took to the streets of Benghazi overnight to protest against rising economic hardship, in a rare display of...
Morocco raises concern about Islamic State activity
Editor's Note Morocco's concern over a resurgence of Daesh activities came days after a gendarmerie officer was killed...
Libya talks: Some progress and more talks ahead
Delegates from rival Libyan administrations on Thursday agreed at talks in Morocco on criteria for appointments to...
Mali: Military junta wants to appoint its own president
Experts appointed by Mali's military junta on Friday proposed a two-year transitional government led by a president...
Tunisia battered by heavy rains and floods, six killed
Six people, including three children, have been killed in six days of heavy rains across Tunisia, a spokesman for the...
Niger: Dozens of migrants saved in Niger desert after they were abandoned by smugglers
Eighty-three migrants were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern...
Algeria: Like all previous presidents, Tebboune wants his version of the constitution
Algeria's government has adopted draft constitutional revisions aimed at responding to the demands of the country's...
Egypt: Budding black market for convalescent plasma as Egypt adds it to its anti-Covid arsenal
Egypt's virus death toll approaches 6,000 Egypt has detected more than 100,000 Covid-19 infections and reported 5,541...
Sahel: Chad regime targets newspapers with forced closure
Chad's paramount media authority has suspended 12 newspapers for three months for failing to conform with a 2018 law,...
Tunisia: Knife attack kills policeman in Sousse, Islamic State claims responsibility
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Monday for a knife attack in Tunisia which killed one National Guard...
Morocco: Casablanca shuts down again as Covid-19 infections surge
Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day pupils were due to return to classes, in...
Egypt’s brutal and punitive judicial system
Egyptian human rights groups on Saturday accused the authorities of "recycling" judicial cases against dissidents to...