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Sahel Displacement Hits 4 Million: UN Warns of Growing Crisis
By MondAfrique: On October 10, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) sounded the alarm: around 4...
Morocco: GenZ212 Makes Tactical Pause in the Fight for Reforms
The GenZ212 protest movement in Morocco, which emerged following the deaths of eight women in an Agadir hospital, has...
Algeria: Wildfires continue to rage in northern Algeria on Sunday
Algerian firefighters were still struggling Sunday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people...
Morocco: Rights group criticizes Spain for sending minors back to Morocco
Save the Children on Saturday urged Spain to halt the repatriation to Morocco of hundreds of unaccompanied minors who...
Algeria: Death toll from wildfires rises to 90
Algeria police arrest 36 after 'arsonist' lynching Algerian police said Sunday they had arrested 36 people including...
Egyptian military accused of committing extra-judicial killings
Amnesty International called Thursday for an investigation after it said an Egyptian army video apparently showed...
Morocco piles more charges on jailed journalist Omar Radi
A Moroccan court on Thursday sentenced journalist and rights activist Omar Radi -- already imprisoned on charges of...
Covid-19 in the Maghreb: More restrictions in Morocco, peak infection in Tunisia and panic in Algeria
Coronavirus: Latest global developments Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: - China outbreak –...
Mali: Truck-bus collision kills 37 people at Zambougou
Thirty-seven people were killed and several others injured when a bus collided with a lorry in central Mali during...
Egypt: Sisi walking a risky road, announces increase in the price of bread
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday his administration is ready to raise the price of subsidised...
Refugees: Hundreds rescued from drowning off the coast of Libya
By Estelle Emonet Rescue ships picked up more than 700 people trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift vessels...
Libya gets 2 million Sinopharm doses with more expected
Libya called Monday on people to come forward to be vaccinated after it received two million doses of the Chinese...
Algeria: Delta variant is driving Covid cases to new records, but fear is accelerating vaccinations
And in the Mideast too The World Health Organization said Thursday the Delta variant has led to a "surge" in...
Covid-19: Libya announces night curfew to stem rise of coronavirus, but not in Haftar’s controlled territories
Libya's government Monday announced a two-week overnight curfew in the areas it controls in the centre and west of the...
Tunisia: Protests erupt in Tunisia against mediocre government
Thousands of Tunisians marched in several cities protesting against the ruling party Sunday, criticising what they...
Sahel: Insurgency is destabilizing Burkina Faso, with mass population displacement
Record numbers of people in Burkina Faso have become internally displaced or fled abroad as a result of jihadist...
Covid-19: Sputnik V and Sinovac vaccines will be manufactured in Constantine, Algeria
Algeria will manufacture the Chinese coronavirus vaccine Sinovac locally, the government announced Saturday, in a...
Covid-19: Rush to vaccinate in Libya as pandemic continues to spread
Libyan authorities on Saturday stepped up their vaccination campaign around the capital Tripoli, as coronavirus cases...
Covid-19: Tunisia gets global support to combat crippling pandemic
The exhausting fight against Covid in Tunisia By Cecilia Sanchez In Tunisia's Mediterranean resort of Sousse,...
Tunisian government in crisis amid exploding Covid-19 cases
Tunisia's government stumbled deeper into crisis on Wednesday over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, after...
At least 20 dead in Mali boating accident
At least 20 people died while nine were rescued following a boating accident on an artificial lake in southwestern...
Tunisia: 16 migrants die off the coast of Zarzis
Tunisia rescued Thursday 166 migrants stranded at sea for nearly a week, recovering the bodies of 16 others who died...
Morocco punishes journalist Omar Radi, sentences him to six years in prison
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi to six years...
Under pressure, Egypt releases from prison six activists
By Mona Salem Egypt on Sunday freed six activists including journalist Esraa Abdel-Fattah, a symbol of the 2011...
Libyans facing an expansive Eid El-Adha holiday
Muslims in war-scarred Libya mark Eid al-Adha from Tuesday, but few will be able to afford the sheep or goat...
Libya’s normalization efforts at an impasse
The UN envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, on Thursday warned of an impasse in the political, security and budgetary plans for...
A secret trial in Morocco
A Moroccan judge on Tuesday took the trial of journalist and rights activist Omar Radi behind closed doors, a move his...
Morocco: Heightened migration crisis in western Med Sea
More than 300 migrants rescued off the coast of Morocco Morocco's navy has rescued 344 migrants, including women and...
Catholic hostages freed in Mali
A Malian priest -- the last of a group of five Catholics kidnapped in mid-June -- has been freed, church and...
Algerian Sahara: Unemployment and poverty riots erupt around Algeria’s southern oil and gas hubs
There has been escalating unrest in several localities in the northeast Algerian Sahara. The oil hubs of Ouargla,...
Libya: Migrants returned to Libya by Europe suffer “horrific violations’
Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the "horrific violations" being committed against migrants returned to...
Burkina Faso: Quarter million people forced to abandon their homes so far this year
More than 237,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes in the past six months in Burkina Faso, a country...
Covid-19: Covid cases in Libya hit new high, country faces critical situation
Libya on Sunday imposed sweeping restrictions to stem the spread of coronavirus as recorded cases hit a new high, with...
Egyptian law to punish state employees who show dissenting views
Egypt's parliament Monday authorised the dismissal of public workers listed as government opponents and "terrorists",...
Brief: Egypt steps up penalties for sexual harassment
Egypt's parliament on Sunday passed a law toughening sentences for sexual harassment to at least five years in prison,...
Morocco experiencing scorching heatwave
Morocco was hit by a fiery weekend heatwave that saw temperatures reach nearly 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees...
Algerian regime jails pro-democracy figure Laalami for two years
An Algerian court on Sunday jailed for two years Chems Eddine Laalami, a leading figure from the pro-democracy Hirak...
Moroccan journalist Raissouni sentenced to five years in jail
Detained Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni was sentenced on Friday to five years in jail for indecent assault...
Tunisia: Despite poverty and hardship, southern Tunisians are welcoming of migrants
By Zeďneb Boughzou In the front row of a small classroom, three women, all different nationalities, avidly learn...
Migrants: Rescue ship Ocean Viking docks in Sicily with almost 600 migrants
Italy on Thursday authorised the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship to dock in Sicily after the group urged EU members...
Tunisia: At least 60 migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
More than 60 migrants of sub-Saharan origin have been lost at sea off Tunisia since Saturday, after two Europe-bound...
Covid-19: Algeria is confronting a more virulent third wave
The North Africa Journal - Daily confirmed positive cases in Algeria rose sharply on Wednesday, 7 July, crossing the...