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Flashpoints: In Southern Chad, A Local Clash Reveals Deeper Fragility
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Tunis Appeals Court Upholds Prison Sentence Against Opposition Leader Abir Moussi
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Mauritania Arrests Anti‑Corruption Figure Mohamed Ould Gadda
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Moroccan Streamer Ilyas El Maliki Arrested Again
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Algeria: Salima Melizi’s Case Highlights Algeria’s Cultural Tensions
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Mauritanian Police Detain Anti-Slavery Activist After Advocacy Event
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Algerian Lawmakers Consider Stripping Citizenship from Nationals Abroad
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Tunisia: Pollution Uprising in Gabès Turning Into Sustained Protest Movement
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Morocco’s Youth Protests Regain Momentum, Calls for Reform Ahead of 2025 Africa Cup
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Morocco: GenZ212 Makes Tactical Pause in the Fight for Reforms
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Morocco: Youth-Led Protests Spur Police Crackdown Across Moroccan Cities
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Ethnic Targeting in West Africa and Sahel: The Forgotten Plight of the Fulani
What’s happening to the Fulani in the Sahel isn’t just war — it’s collective punishment. This is the story no one...
Tunisia’s Opposition Faces Mounting Legal Pressure
Government actions against opposition figures continue to dominate the political landscape in Tunisia. This week and...
EU Report Accuses Tunisia of Migrant Trafficking to Libya
A report, presented to the European Parliament on January 29 by a group of researchers, accuses Tunisia of deporting...
Egypt: Efforts at a National Dialogue Undermined by an Unhinged Political Police
Egypt is sending mix signals on its human rights records. Some in Cairo’s political system are trying hard to project...
Sahel: Wagner Group and Mali army engaging in mass murder and forced displacement of northern populations
The Wagner Group is wracking havoc in northern Mali, with actions that hint on ongoing efforts to depopulate the...
Moroccan authorities destroy homes without warning or relocation offers ($)
In a series of surprise operations, coastal communities in Morocco have been experiencing the forceful destruction of...
Mauritania: Christian group released from detention, expelled from Mauritania
Tunisia: Journalist Zied El-Heni released from jail, gets six-month suspended sentence
Tunisian journalist El-Heni was released from prison on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, but he was given a six-month...
UN rapporteur on human rights pressures Algeria to release jailed activists
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Algeria to release all jailed human...
Egypt: Italy sets new trial for Egyptians accused of student’s murder
A court in Italy on Monday set a February date for a new trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused...
Middle East: Wounded children from war-torn Gaza airlifted to UAE
By Mumen KhatibB and Giuseppe Cacace: Clutching a blown-up surgical glove as a makeshift toy, a Palestinian child is...
Egypt opens Rafah Border, to allow safe passage to foreign nationals
Egypt will help evacuate "about 7,000" foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign...
Morocco: Appeals court reduced prison sentence to rights activist Saida El Alami, but conviction remains
A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday reduced to eight months the sentence for a human rights activist convicted of...
Algeria: While pro-democracy Hirak movement represents no risk to regime, Algeria continues to hold people in prisons
Libya flood: As death toll exceeds 3,300, tens of thousands of people are displaced
France arrests journalist for reporting on alleged French targeting of civilians in Egypt
Tunisia: President continues to weaken Islamist party Ennahdha with more arrests
Algeria says it was forced to shoot at jet skiers, as families plan to file complaints in French courts
Algeria said Sunday its security forces had opened fire this week after a group of jet skiers from Morocco ignored...
Algeria sentences 2 men to prison for allegedly “publishing classified info”
An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced an Algerian-Canadian researcher and Algerian journalist each to two years in...
Egypt releases political activist Ahmed Douma
Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country's 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind...
Brief: Morocco’s overcrowded prisons ($)
Egypt: Under intense international pressure, Egypt releases Egyptian-Irish student Patrick Zaki two days after he was sentenced to prison
Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki and lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer walked out of prison Thursday, relatives said, a day...
Morocco continues to use judicial harassment against journalists
Egypt: Three years in prison and tortured for allegedly spreading “fake news”
The United States called on Egypt Wednesday to release rights researcher Patrick Zaki, a day after he was sentenced to...
Sahel: Malian journalist Mohamed Youssouf Bathily acquitted over PM ‘assassination’ claim
A prominent Malian TV and radio journalist was acquitted on Tuesday on charges that he falsely claimed a former...
Migrants: Appalling treatment of migrants by North African governments continues
By Aymen Jamli and Francoise Kadri: The bodies of two migrants have been found in a desert region near Tunisia's...
Tunisia: Witnesses report abusive acts against migrants
Egyptian national executed in Saudi Arabia for ‘terrorism’
Tunisia: Racial tension spikes in Sfax as Sub-Saharan migrants targeted
Tunisian stabbed to death in clash with African migrants
How Egypt’s road infrastructure investments are ruinous and destructive
Photo by Mostnir Shady Ahmed: In the decade since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power, Egypt has built dozens...