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Algeria Officially Joins ASEAN
Algeria just made a big splash on the global stage, officially joining ASEAN as a partner (What is Asean: An...
Sahel: Russia Replaces Wagner in Mali Under Pressure from Algeria, Touaregs Brace
As Wagner withdraws from Mali, Russia is not stepping away, but it’s reshaping its presence there. Under quiet...
Sahel: Mali president Boubacar Keita dismisses coup speculation
Bamako, Oct 6, 2019 - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Sunday rejected as speculation talk of a military...
Tunisia: Legislative elections underway
Tunis, Oct 6, 2019 (By Caroline Nelly Perrot) - Tunisians go to the polls Sunday for the third parliamentary polls of...
Egypt: Tension escalates with Ethiopia over Nile dam
Cairo, Oct 6, 2019 - Egypt has urged international mediation over what it called "deadlock" in talks in Sudan over a...
Western Sahara: The forgotten conflict that is likely to perdure
United Nations, United States, Oct 3, 2019 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he hopes to maintain the...
Tunisia: Alleged lobbying contract by Nabil Karoui guarantees election victory of Kais Saied
Tunis - The publication by US authorities of a $1-million international lobbying contract to promote a jailed...
Egypt: Fear of more unrest prompts Sisi government to lower fuel prices
Cairo, Oct 4, 2019 - Egypt lowered fuel prices on Friday, the oil ministry said, following several rounds of price...
Algeria: West silent at arbitrary arrests and human rights abuses in Algeria
The west has had a great deal of sympathizing for the struggle of the people of Hong Kong. There has been an uproar...
Algeria: Military command plays its last card, political crisis reaching its climax
By Arezki Daoud - 1 October 2019: This is make-or-break moment for Algerian military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah...
Sahel: Intense fighting between insurgents and Mali army in Mopti
Oct 1, 2019 - A large contingent of Malian troops, backed by air support, fought Tuesday with jihadist fighters who...
Morocco: Journalist Hajar Raissouni sent to jail for “illegal abortion”
Rabat, Sept 30, 2019 - Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail...
Tunisia: Presidential candidate Nabil Karoui still in jail
Tunis, Sept 27, 2019 - One of two presidential candidates to have won through to a runoff election in Tunisia has...
Libya: US kills suspected IS insurgents in raid on Libya
The US military command for Africa announced Friday it killed 17 suspected Islamic State group jihadists in southern...
Egypt: Online warfare rages as pro and anti-Sisi clans fight with same intensity
Cairo, Sept 26, 2019 (By Mona Salem) - Rival hashtags, angry videos and calls to march -- the war for Egyptian minds...
Algeria: Military court sentences former political and intelligence chiefs after only a one-day trial
Algiers, Sept 25, 2019 (AFP) - An Algerian military court has sentenced the brother of former president Abdelaziz...
Egypt: Grim picture in Egypt as military seeks to contain unrest
Cairo, Sept 25, 2019 - Egyptian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people, rights groups said Wednesday,...
Algeria: The rise and fall of a criminal- Head of disgraced FLN party, Mohamed Djemai is now in jail
Mohamed Djemai, the recently imposed head of the disgraced nationalist party FLN, and member of parliament...
Egypt: Journalist Mahmoud Hussein still jailed in Egypt for 1,000th days
Doha, Qatar, Sept 19, 2019 - Qatar's Al-Jazeera broadcaster marked 1,000 days on Thursday since its producer Mahmoud...
Algeria: Frightened of popular revolt, military junta chief Gaid Salah bans access to Algiers
By Amal Belalloufi - Algeria's military has ordered police to block protesters from outside the capital entering...
Algeria: Military junta arrests opposition activist Fodil Boumala
Algiers, Sept 19, 2019 - An Algerian court on Thursday ordered the pre-trial detention of a leading figure in protests...
Tunisia: Former dictator Ben Ali dies in Saudi Arabia
While the Tunisian people are preparing to chose their new president, former dictator from 1987 to 2011, Zine El...
Libya: Two killed in drone strike in Sirte, raid on Mitiga airport
Tripoli, Sept 16, 2019 - Drone strikes on Libya's coastal town of Sirte killed two pro-unity government fighters and...
From bad to worse: life after the ordeal of Libya
Benin City, Nigeria, Sept 17, 2019 (Sophie Bouillon) - Emerging from her ordeal, Gloria considers herself...
Tunisia election authority confirms Nabil Karoui and Kais Saied for presidential runoff vote
Tunis, Sept 17, 2019 - Tunisia's electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a presidential runoff vote will pit...
Algerians respond to military junta: thanks but no election!
Algiers, Sept 17, 2019 - Protesters massed in the Algerian capital on Tuesday to demand the cancellation of a...
Algerian regime challenges pro-democracy movement, announces election date
Algiers, Sept 15, 2019 - Algeria is to hold a presidential election on December 12, five months into a political...
Sahel: Chad in the grip of violence and inter-communal clashes
Chad's parliament on Tuesday extended by three months a state of emergency in three eastern regions hit by rebel...
Sahel: Destruction and escalating death toll in flooded Niger
Deadly floods across Niger have left 57 people dead and affected more than 130,000 since they began in June, according...
Sahel: Protests over bad roads continue in Mali
Bamako, Sept 11, 2019 (By Maīmouna Moro) - Like many of his fellow Malians, Ousmane Maiga used to drive regularly...
Sahel: Clash near Goundam in Mali leaves three dead
A Malian soldier was killed and seven others injured in an ambush by gunmen on Wednesday in the northern Timbuktu...
Algeria: Military kidnaps popular opposition figure Karim Tabou, says he “demoralizes the army”
Opposition leader Karim Tabou was forcefully taken away on Wednesday, 11 September in early afternoon by unidentified...
Algeria: Justice administration wants immunity of notorious member of parliament Tliba lifted
Baha Eddine Tliba, the billionaire member of the Algerian parliament representing the eastern city of Annaba appears...
Egypt: Actor Mohamed Aly flees to Spain, accuses Sisi and military of corruption
Cairo, Sept 9, 2019 - Videos posted online by an Egyptian construction contractor accusing President Abdel Fattah...
Thousands of Aigle Azur passengers stranded as Air France makes offer to acquire collapsed airline
Sept 9, 2019 - French flag carrier Air France on Monday offered to snap up its much smaller rival Aigle Azur after the...
Morocco: Flood overturns bus in Errachidia, 17 killed
Rabat, Sept 9, 2019 - At least 17 people were killed in Morocco when flood waters overturned their bus in the...
Tunisia: Jailed presidential candidate Nabil Karoui on the campaign ‘trail by proxy’
Arrested just weeks before Tunisia's September 15 presidential polls, candidate Nabil Karoui has hit the campaign...
Morocco: Female journalist and others arrested for alleged ‘abortion’
Rights groups urged Moroccan authorities on Friday to immediately release a journalist arrested on charges of having...
Sahel: Security agents kidnapped in Mopti, Mali
Bamako, Sept 6, 2019 - Armed men abducted 22 members of a military unit comprising mainly Tuareg ex-rebels and former...
Sahel: Kidnappings intensify in southeast Niger
Niamey, Sept 5, 2019 - At least 66 civilians were kidnapped in July in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria...
Sahel: Rainy season hits Niger hard
Niamey, Sept 4, 2019 (By Boureima Hama) - "That's it, time to go!" As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards...
Algeria: Purge in the military could undermine Algeria’s defensive effectiveness
Mass arrests have taken place in the ranks of the Algerian military in recent weeks, reliable sources said. Senior and...