Egypt faces a deepening energy crisis as natural gas production crashes 39%, forcing a return to costly LNG imports...
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Morocco: Villagers on Edge as Wildfire Spreads Near Tangier
Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling a rapidly spreading wildfire in Houara Forest near Tangier, with 60...
Mali in Turmoil: Junta Suspends Political Parties Amid Mounting Opposition
Mali’s ruling junta has officially suspended all political party activities, marking the most sweeping crackdown yet...
Algeria: Military command keeps war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa in prison for his political views
Algiers, Aug 1, 2019 - Algeria's judiciary has refused to provisionally release a well-known independence war veteran...
Algerian military chief Gaid Salah rejects demands for appeasement, wants his rules only
Algiers, July 30, 2019 - Algeria's powerful army chief Tuesday ruled out accepting any pre-conditions to launching...
Libya: Fighting continues in Tripoli
Tripoli, July 30, 2019 - Rocket fire forced flights to be suspended and passengers evacuated at the Libyan capital's...
Egypt: One third of Egyptians live with less than $1.4 per day
Cairo, July 30, 2019 - Nearly a third of Egyptians live below the poverty line, up from 27.8 percent in 2015, Egypt's...
Sahel: Fifteen killed in Jihadi attack in Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, July 27, 2019 - Armed men described as jihadists raided a village in Burkina Faso's restive north,...
Egypt: Sudan warlord Mohamed Hamdan Daglo meets Sisi
Cairo, July 29, 2019 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met in Cairo Monday powerful Sudanese military General...
Morocco: Court issues death sentences in 2017 Marrakesh shooting
July 27, 2019 - A Moroccan court has sentenced to death two Dutch citizens over the accidental killing of a medical...
Libya: Warlord Haftar bombs hospital near Tripoli, kills dozen
Tripoli, July 28, 2019- Five doctors were killed in an air strike by forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on a...
Tunisians bid farewell to President Essebsi
Tunis, July 27, 2019 (By Kaouther Larbi) - French President Emmanuel Macron and other foreign leaders attended Friday...
Morocco: Landslide buries bus near Marrakesh, kills 15
Rabat, July 26, 2019 - Moroccan emergency crews pulled 15 bodies from the mud after a rare summer downpour triggered a...
Tunisia: Elections likely to be held 15 September after death of President Essebsi
Tunis, July 26, 2019 (By Caroline Nelly Perrot) - Tunisia has less than two months to organise snap elections...
Libya: Dozens of migrants missing in the Mediterranean
Tripoli, July 25, 2019 - Some 150 migrants are missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya, the International...
Libya: Misrata militia says it captured Qaeda leaders
Tripoli, July 25, 2019 - A Libyan militia has arrested a number of Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist leaders in a raid near the...
Tunisia: Death of President Essebsi forces change in election calendar
Tunis, July 25, 2019 - Tunisia is to bring forward a planned November presidential election by several weeks, the...
Egyptian minister suggests that people who criticize Egypt should be killed.
Montreal, July 24, 2019 - Egypt's immigration minister is facing criticism following a speech in Canada in which she...
Tunisia: President Beji Caid Essebsi Dies at 92
Tunis, July 25, 2019 - Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country's first democratically elected...
Sahel: Six people die of hunger after militia isolated their village in Mali
Bamako, July 24, 2019 - The Malian army will urgently deliver food and medical supplies to a region in central Mali,...
Libya: Italian fishing ship in Libyan custody
Tripoli, July 24, 2019 - The Libyan navy said Tuesday it seized an Italian-flagged fishing vessel and is questioning...
Libya: Fighting intensifies near Tripoli
Tripoli, July 23, 2019 - Forces loyal to Libya's UN-recognised government said they fought off a "major" attack on the...
Sahel: Foreign troops wounded in attack on military base in Mali
Paris, July 22, 2019 - Three French and Estonian troops were wounded on Monday when a car bomb exploded at the...
Maghreb: Libya warlord Haftar’s warplane breaches Tunisia air space
Beni Ghezayel, Tunisia, July 22, 2019 - A Libyan warplane of military commander Khalifa Haftar's forces made an...
Egypt: British Airways cancels flights to Cairo, cites security concerns
London, July 20, 2019 - British Airways said Saturday it had suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a...
Libya: Oil production from Sharara back after sabotage on pipeline
Tripoli, July 22, 2019 - Libya announced the resumption of production Monday at its largest oil field and the loading...
Sahel: Soldiers ambushed in NE Mali
Bamako, July 18, 2019 - A Malian soldier was killed and two others wounded in an ambush on their convoy in the...
Morocco: Killers of European tourists get death sentence
Salé, Morocco, July 18, 2019 - Three Islamic State group supporters were sentenced to death by a court in Morocco on...
Sahel: Lake Chad nations want $100 million to fight global warming
Niamey, July 19, 2019 - The four countries bordering Lake Chad on Friday launched a fund aimed at collecting $100...
Morocco: Migrants breach Melilla border fence
Madrid, July 19, 2019 - Around 50 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco...
Governance in disarray: the criminal syndicate that ruled and continues to rule Algeria
By Arezki Daoud: The political crisis in Algeria has brought to the fore the extent of the state of the bankruptcy in...
Tunisia: Islamic State Group issues new threat against Tunisia
Tunis, July 17, 2019 - The Islamic State group has called for more attacks in Tunisia in a rare propaganda video...
Sahel: Son of Mali President Keita fails to convince judge in defamation suit
Bamako, July 17, 2019 - A Malian court on Wednesday threw out a defamation case brought by President Ibrahim Boubacar...
Egypt: Suicide bomb attack claims two lives in Sheikh Zuweid
Cairo, July 18, 2019- Two people including a civilian were killed in a suicide bomb attack Thursday targeting security...
Libya: The backers of warlord Khalifa Haftar are calling for halt of fighting
Washington, July 16, 2019 - Key powers including backers of a rebel leader called Tuesday for a halt to fighting in...
Sahel: The bizarre idea of the International Crisis Group to solve the security crisis in Mali
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: The highly respected International Crisis Group (ICG) has proposed to Mali the...
Egypt: Restrictive law likely to mark the death of many NGOs in Egypt
Cairo, July 15, 2019 - Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments to a controversial law that rights groups say...
Algeria: Arrest of former industry minister Youcef Yousfi paves way for probes on major corruption cases in energy sector
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: Algeria has been plagued by widespread corruption ever since Bouteflika became president...
Algeria’s military command selects Conservative Islamist supporter as new parliament chief
Arezki Daoud's comment: The Algerian national assembly has a new speaker. It was supposed to be another nationalist...
Sahel: Burkina Faso parliament extends state of emergency
Ouagadougou, July 11, 2019 - Burkina Faso's parliament on Thursday extended by six months until January a state of...
Sahel: Boat capsizes in Niger’s Goulbi River, kills 11 passengers
July 11, 2019 - Eleven people drowned Thursday when their boat capsized on a river in central Niger, the governor of...
Egypt: Pro-Mubarak Facebook page admin arrested for “spreading false info”
Cairo, July 11, 2019 - The administrator of a Facebook page supporting Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak was...
Morocco: Judges under intense pressure to issue death penalty to killers of European tourists
Salé, Morocco, July 11, 2019 - The mother of a Danish student beheaded along with another Scandinavian woman while...