French President Emmanuel Macron has requested that the government suspend visa exemptions for Algerian diplomatic and...
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Protests Erupt as Water Shortage Grips Mauritania
Opposition lawmakers in Mauritania staged a sit-in at the Ministry of Water to protest a two-week-long water shortage...
Niger Deepens Strategic Ties with Russia After Break from France
Civil nuclear cooperation and uranium development signal a shift in Niamey's global posture In a development that...
Algeria: Six controversial Governors fired, including unpopular wali of Algiers
Acting President Abdelkader Bensalah, on Monday, 22 April fired six walis (Governors) long considered controversial...
Morocco: Protest movement reenergized, monarchy must give something or face permanent state of protest
The Moroccan monarchy has been extremely hesitant to put in place more meaningful reforms that would address the basic...
Sahel: Dozen soldiers killed by insurgents in Mali
Bamako, April 21, 2019 - Suspected jihadists killed at least 11 soldiers in an attack Sunday in central Mali, the...
Algeria: Private business sector swept away by protest movement, several businessmen under arrest
The protest movement in Algeria is having its first wave of collateral damage. With the judiciary active as never...
Algeria: Protests maintain pressure against regime in ninth consecutive Friday of demonstrations
Algiers, April 19, 2019 - Huge crowds of protesters filled central Algiers for a ninth weekly mass rally Friday,...
Morocco: Arrest of suspect allegedly plotting terror attack on Spain
Madrid, April 17, 2019 (AFP) - Police have arrested a suspect in Morocco allegedly preparing a jihadist attack on...
Libya: UN envoys predicts doom in Libya
Tripoli, April 18, 2019 - The UN's Libya envoy warned Thursday of "a widening conflagration" in the North African...
Egypt braces for long-term authoritarian regime
Cairo, April 17, 2019 - Egypt on Wednesday set a referendum for April 20-22 on sweeping constitutional changes...
Libya: UN Security Council debates over ceasefire while Tripoli crumbles
Tripoli, April 17, 2019 - The death toll from rocket fire on the Libyan capital Tripoli, blamed by the UN-recognised...
Sahel: Boko Haram attacks military base in Bouhama, Chad
N'Djamena, April 15, 2019 - Fighting between Chad soldiers and Boko Haram jihadists killed dozens, including 63...
Libya: The battle for Tripoli rages on, 147 killed
Tripoli, April 15, 2019 - At least 147 people have been killed and 614 wounded in the offensive launched on April 4 by...
Morocco: Court upholds outrageous prison terms for Hirak leaders
Rabat, April 10, 2019 - Human Rights Watch on Wednesday warned Rabat over what it called the "shocking" Moroccan court...
Morocco: Swiss national sentenced to prison for terrorism
Rabat, April 12, 2019 - A Moroccan court has sentenced a Swiss citizen arrested in connection with the murder of two...
Libya: Thousands flee, population stranded inside conflict zone in Tripoli
April 12, 2019 - More than 8,000 people have fled fighting around Libya's capital, half of whom have been displaced...
Egypt: Teenage suicide bomber kills seven in Egypt
Cairo, April 9, 2019 - A teen suicide bomber killed four members of Egypt's security forces and three civilians...
The Libyan crisis and Rome’s immigration nightmare
Rome, April 11, 2019 - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned Thursday that the deteriorating situation in...
Algeria resurrecting major graft probes as police raid Sonatrach and Public Works ministry and ban hundreds from leaving the country
The North Africa Journal - 11 April 2019 - On 7 April 2019, the Algerian security authorities established a new list...
Algeria: Turmoil and leadership crisis at the ruling parties
The North Africa Journal - 11 April 2019 - There is an unprecedented level of tension within the ruling FLN and RND...
Algeria: Major shake-up of the Algerian intelligence services underway
The North Africa Journal - 11 April 2019: Several senior officers who directed various intelligence agencies during...
With the ousting of Bouteflika and al-Bashir, should others be concerned?
April 11, 2019 - Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by...
Mali: French forces in Mali set up base near Burkina border after major clean up operation
April 10, 2019 - French and Malian troops killed or captured more than 30 extremists and dismantled a jihadist...
Libya’s Escalating Civil War: The Oil Dimension
By Rauf Mammadov* and Theodore Karasik** - 10 April 2019: Libya’s civil war intensified this month after General...
Sahel: Boko Haram targets Niger’s Diffa region in new attacks
Niamey, April 10, 2019 - Several people have been taken hostage and a policeman killed in an attack by Boko Haram...
Morocco: Jailed leader of the protest movement takes drastic step of sewing his lips
Rabat, April 9, 2019 - The jailed leader of a Moroccan protest movement, Nasser Zefzafi, has sewn his lips together...
Algeria: Rejected by the Algerian people, the old guard remains in power
Algiers, April 9, 2019 - By Claire Doyen - Algerian lawmakers appointed a regime stalwart as interim president...
Libya: Fighting outside Tripoli rages on as UN struggles to find a solution to the crisis
Tripoli, April 10, 2019 - The battle for Libya's capital intensified as the UN Security Council prepared to meet...
Libya: Thousands flee Libya clashes
Tripoli, April 8, 2019 - Fighting raged around Tripoli and an air strike closed its only functioning airport Monday,...
Mali: Dozen dead as boat sinks on way to market in Segou
Bamako, April 8, 2019 (AFP) - A boat headed for market laden with merchandise and vendors capsized in the Niger River...
Libya: How global and regional powers are sustaining the mess in Libya
April 8, 2019 - The attempted offensive by Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli has thrown into sharp relief...
Libya: Flights halted at Tripoli airport as fighting continues, death toll reaches 35
Tripoli, Libya, April 8, 2019 - A warplane carried out an air strike Monday against the Libyan capital's only...
Mali’s humanitarian problem: too much focus on boots on the ground
April 4, 2019 - Mali is in dire need of humanitarian aid, with more than three million people requiring food and basic...
Algeria: Pressure grows on remaining Bouteflika operatives to resign
Algiers, April 4, 2019 - Algerians are planning mass protests Friday in a key test of whether they can keep up the...
Libya: The collapse of the social and economic infrastructure in Libya
Zintan, Libya, April 2, 2019 - By Imed Lamloum and Nawas Al-Darraji - Hundreds of blue pipes lay abandoned in...
Libya: Haftar troops headed toward Tripoli, fear of more violence coming
Tripoli, April 4, 2019 - Forces led by a controversial Libyan military chief manoeuvred Thursday for a threatened...
Algeria: The men tasked to drive the post-Bouteflika transition and why people don’t trust them
By Arezki Daoud - April 3, 2019: There have been loud voices calling for a clean slate in the Algerian system of...
Mali: French military doctor killed in Mopti, soldier wounded
April 2, 2019 - A French military doctor was killed in Mali when his armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive...
Algeria: President Bouteflika resigns
The North Africa Journal: The Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, officially notified the President of the...
Algeria: Expect unprecedented purge of the Bouteflika clan, as Algerians seeks to uproot the “deep state”
By Arezki Daoud: 2 April 2019: For now, all of the named individuals and companies listed here are innocent of any...
Algeria: Bouteflika to resign this month, in a sketchy transition period likely to keep protests going
By Arezki Daoud - April 1, 2019: No, this is not an April fools' prank, the battered President of Algeria, Abdelaziz...
Algeria: New Algerian government cabinet will fail to ease political tension
Photo: New protests in the capital Algiers after announcement of new government cabinet. Algiers, March 31, 2019 -...