Morocco isn’t making much noise about it, but a subtle shift is taking place in how the country handles foreign...
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Guinea’s Mining Purge Echoes Mali’s Playbook, With Different Goals
Guinea’s junta has launched a sweeping crackdown on mining permits, abruptly revoking over 100 licenses for bauxite,...
Sahel: Russia Reorganizes in Mali: Wagner Withdraws, Africa Corps Moves In
After months of behind-the-scenes talks, Russia has managed to phase out the Wagner Group in Mali and replace it with...
Sahel: Fourteen killed in IED explosion in Mali
Bamako, Sept 3, 2019 - Fourteen bus passengers were killed Tuesday by a road mine in central Mali, the bus company...
Algeria: Junta chief General Gaid Salah insists on the impossible
Algiers, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) - Algeria's powerful army chief called Monday for a vote to elect a successor to ousted...
Sahel: Building collapses in Bamako, Mali. Twelve dead
Bamako, Sept 1, 2019 - Twelve people were killed on Sunday when a three-storey building under construction collapsed...
Tunisia: Four killed in army-insurgent clash in Kasserine
Tunis, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) - A national guard officer and three suspected jihadist militants were killed in a gunbattle...
Sahel: Two generals sent to prison in Burkina Faso for alleged treason
Ouagadougou, Sept 2, 2019 (By Armel Baily with David Esnault in Abidjan) - A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday...
Algeria: Risk analyst firm MEA Risk warns of crisis reaching climax in Algeria this fall
A MEA Risk assessment of the Algerian political stalemate warns that the crisis in the North African nation could...
Morocco: Raging flood water claims lives of seven people in Taroudant
Rabat, Aug 29, 2019 (AFP) - At least seven people were killed Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a...
Sahel: Scores killed in pastoral conflict in southern Chad
N'Djamena, Aug 28, 2019 - Eleven people were killed in fighting between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers in a...
Sahel: Unrest in Mali over dismal road conditions
Kati, Mali, Aug 27, 2019 (AFP) - More than 1,000 trucks loaded with merchandise were blocked Tuesday at the entrance...
Libya: More deaths off the coast of Libya
Tripoli, Aug 27, 2019 - The bodies of five migrants including a Moroccan child were recovered off Libya's coast...
Sahel: Chad jails alleged rebels
N'Djamena, Aug 27, 2019 - Chad has handed down jail terms to 243 rebels who crossed into the country from Libya in...
Libya: More migrants rescued at sea
Rome, Aug 26, 2019 - A German charity said Monday it had rescued some 100 people from a collapsing dinghy in the...
Sahel: Boko Haram attacks village in Gueskerou, Nigeria, dozen killed
Niamey, Aug 24, 2019 - A night raid blamed on Boko Haram has left a dozen villagers dead in southeastern Niger on the...
Tunisia: Despite his arrest, Nabil Karoui remains presidential candidate
Media magnate Nabil Karoui remains in the race for Tunisia's upcoming presidential election despite his arrest for...
Algeria: No-backing down, Algerians maintain pressure on government, insist on regime change
Algiers, Aug 23, 2019 - Algerians on Friday were back on the streets demanding an overhaul of the political system as...
Sahel: Explosive situation in Chad
By deploying troops and sealing borders to try to quell ethnic clashes in eastern Chad, President Idriss Deby risks...
Algeria: Another corrupt former Justice Minister arrested for alleged criminal activity
Algeria's former justice minister Tayeb Louh was Thursday placed in preventative detention on allegations of abuse of...
Tunisia: Islamist media and a candidate TV banned from covering election campaign
Tunis, Aug 23, 2019 - Tunisian electoral and media authorities have banned three local outlets from covering the...
Tunisia: PM Chahed focuses on presidential election campaigning
Tunis, Aug 22, 2019 - Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Thursday said he was delegating his powers in order to...
Algeria: Regime ignores calls for smooth political transition, insists on its own unpopular roadmap
In a message published this week by the state news agency APS, Interim head of state Abdelkader Bensalah repeated the...
Sahel: 150 children killed in Mali violence in six months
Bamako, Aug 13, 2019 - UN child protection body UNICEF warned on Tuesday children in Mali faced rising violence with...
Libya: Warlord Haftar’s troops lose ground in Tripoli battle
Tripoli, Aug 21, 2019 - Forces loyal to Libya's unity government said Wednesday they had made territorial gains south...
Sahel: More violence in Chad’s Tibesti region
N'Djamena, Aug 21, 2019 - Three people were killed in northern Chad on 19 August after trying to attack a police...
Sahel: Mali soldiers ambushed by insurgents in Mopti, five killed
Bamako, Aug 21, 2019 - Five troops were killed in central Mali on Wednesday when their convoy was ambushed by...
Libya: American arms dealer sentenced to prison for attempting to sell Russian weapons to Libyan militia
Los Angeles, Aug 20, 2019 - An international arms dealer was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Los Angeles federal...
Egypt: Army says it killed 11 insurgents near El Arish
Cairo, Aug 20, 2019 - Egyptian security forces killed 11 militants in the restive North Sinai region, the interior...
Spying on their people with Huawei technology
Kampala, Aug 16, 2019 - Uganda and Zambia on Friday denied a report that employees of Chinese telecom giant Huawei had...
Algeria: Months after starting their movement, Algerian people determined to oust illegal regime
Algiers, Aug 20, 2019 by By Amal Belalloufi and Aymeric Vincenot: Algerians launched an unprecedented protest...
Sahel: Insurgents kill at least 24 soldiers in northern Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, Aug 20, 2019 - The death toll from an attack Monday on a military base in northern Burkina Faso rose to...
Tunisian election regulator cleans up list of candidates to presidential election
Tunis - Tunisia's electoral commission has rejected nearly three quarters of hopefuls for next month's presidential...
Libya: MSF says 80 migrants rescued off Libyan coast
Aug 10, 2019 - The Ocean Viking charity ship rescued more than 80 migrants off the coast of Libya on Saturday,...
Libya: Tripoli could get a moment of respite in this Eid al-Adha
Tripoli, Aug 10, 2019 - Libya's government has said it is willing to accept a truce in fighting around Tripoli for the...
Tunisia: Abdelfattah Mourou of Islamist party Ennahdha to run for presidential election
Tunis, Aug 7, 2019 - Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party announced a presidential candidate for the first time...
Tunisia turns back Ivorian migrants to Libya despite safety concerns
Tunis, Aug 7, 2019 - The United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the safety of 36 Ivorian migrants, including...
Sahel: Red Cross suspends operations in Timbuktu, Mali, as violence escalates
Aug 6, 2019 - Twin attacks in Mali have killed four people, including two Malian soldiers, security sources said...
Egypt: Carnage in Cairo after blast killed 20 people
Cairo, Aug 5, 2019 - A huge blast which killed 20 people in Cairo was caused by a speeding car packed with explosives,...
Libya: Warlord Khalifa Hartar pursues attacks on Misrata as death toll in Tripoli reaches 1,100
Tripoli, Aug 6, 2019 - Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said they launched air strikes early Tuesday...
Algeria: court issues arrest warrant on Khaled Nezzar, ex-General accused of alleged mass killings in the 1990s
Algiers, Aug 6, 2019 - An Algerian court has issued an arrest warrant against a former defence minister and army...
Libya: Khalifa Haftar’s army kills 42 civilians in Morzuk
Tripoli, Aug 5, 2019 - At least 42 people were killed and dozens wounded in an air strike targeting a town hall...
Libyan civilian plane escapes bombing at Mitiga Airport in Tripoli
Tripoli, Aug 5, 2019 - A Libyan airliner has narrowly escaped being hit by incoming fire as it landed at war-torn...