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Morocco: Youth-Led Protests Spur Police Crackdown Across Moroccan Cities
A wave of youth-driven demonstrations swept through Morocco over the past several nights, with rallies unfolding in at...
Niger: Heavy Rains Force Back-to-School Delay
For the second year in a row, Niger’s public education system is adjusting its calendar in response to extended...
Libya: Military court in the east sentences 22 to death on bogus charges
Eastern Libyan military courts have sentenced at least 22 people to death and jailed hundreds more since 2018 in...
Migrants from Morocco resort to swimming to flee to Europe
Around 100 migrants tried to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco, Spanish police said...
Sahel: The collapsing ecosystem of Niger River
By Amaury Hauchard - Ousmane Djebare Djenepo, wearing sunglasses and an easy smile, stands upright to show off the...
Libya: Tragedy at sea after migrant boat capsizes
Ten bodies were spotted near a capsized rubber boat off the coast of Libya on Thursday, which had around 130 people...
Algerian regime launches frontal assault on civil society
It’s hunting season against journalists and free thinkers Being a journalist or a whistleblower is a dangerous job in...
Algeria: Paranoiac regime sees conspiracies everywhere
Algerian security services said Tuesday they had arrested eight people linked to the Hirak pro-democracy protest...
Algeria: Remembering Amazigh’s Black Spring
By Abdellah Cheballa - Twenty years ago, an Algerian teenager's death in police custody in the heartland of the North...
Sahel: Fighting between herdsmen and farmers rages in southeaster Chad
Clashes between sedentary farmers and semi-nomadic herders in southeastern Chad have left many dead in recent days,...
Egypt’s crumbling train infrastructure: Nearly dozen killed in another accident north of Cairo
By Farid Farid - A train accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 11 people dead and 98 others injured, Egypt's health...
Tunisia: Dozens of would-be-migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
At least 41 people, including a child, have died after a boat carrying African migrants to Europe sank off Tunisia,...
Libya: In its quest for normalcy, Tripoli renovates its old town
By Rim Taher - In alleys criss-crossing the Libyan capital's Old City, construction crews are hard at work restoring...
MENA region more vulnerable to Covid-19 with the start of Ramadan
The World Health Organization expressed concern Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic could worsen in the Middle East...
Tunisians use old age Ramli technique to fight drought
By Aymen Jamli - Farmers near a seaside lagoon in northern Tunisia are fighting to preserve a unique, traditional...
Algeria: Human rights groups demand release of 23 political prisoners on hunger strike
Eight Algerian human rights groups warned on Thursday that 23 detained people on hunger strike could die, and called...
Algeria: Labor unrest intensifies as general prices rise. Country’s outlook compromised
Stress in he Algerian labor market has been intensifying in the face of a dormant government. Government action in...
Egypt: Journalists released from prison
Egyptian photojournalist Hossam el-Sayed and his wife Solafa Magdy, an independent journalist, have been released...
Egypt bus-truck crash kills 20: officials
Cairo, April 14, 2021 (AFP) - Twenty people were killed Wednesday in Egypt when a bus collided with a truck carrying...
Morocco: Victim of sexual assault during protest, Nezha Majdi gets jailed instead
A Moroccan teacher and 19 peers have been charged with "outrage" against security forces after she accused the latter...
Algeria: Political prisoners launch hunger strike
Twenty-three people detained after taking part in a protest march in the Algerian capital last week have gone on...
Chad’s security forces stifle dissent in the run-up to presidential elections
The security forces in Chad have brutally stifled dissent in the run-up to presidential elections this weekend,...
Covid-19: France and Spain evacuate their citizens from Morocco
Spain and France are chartering planes and ferries to bring home thousands of their nationals stranded in Morocco...
Covid-19: Libya gets first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
Libya's interim prime minister on Sunday announced the arrival of the first batch of vaccines against Covid-19, as the...
Algeria withdraws law stripping citizenship to opponents abroad, big loss for regime hardliners
(Photo: Ultra-hardliner Justice Minister Belkacem Zeghmati) The Algerian regime backed away from issuing a...
Algeria: 15-year-old boy accuses police of sex abuse
Algerian police said Sunday they had launched an investigation after videos on social media claiming officers sexually...
Mali: Remains of murdered Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockli to return to her family
The remains of a Swiss missionary taken hostage and killed by Islamists in Mali have been identified and will be...
Libyans working on reconciliation with release of enemy fighters
Authorities in western Libya released 120 fighters from a rival eastern force on Wednesday, the latest move towards...
Morocco: 3,000 Spaniards stranded in Morocco after Rabat banned flight from Spain
Madrid said Wednesday it was working to help repatriate some 3,000 Spanish tourists who are stranded in Morocco after...
Algeria: Guards and one inmate die in freak accident in Bejaia prison
Seven Algerian prison guards and an inmate died of suffocation Wednesday in a septic tank accident at a prison in the...
Sahel: UN says French air strike killed civilians in Mali, France rejects findings
A French air strike killed 19 civilians in central Mali in January, according to a UN report, seen Tuesday by AFP,...
Libya intercepts large number of would-be migrants
Libya's coastguard intercepted almost 1,000 Europe-bound migrants off its western coast in two days, the International...
Algeria: Journalist Abdelhakim Setouane gets six months in prison
A court in Algeria's capital Monday sentenced journalist Abdelhakim Setouane to six months in jail for defamation of a...
Egypt: Eight arrested over train collision in Tahta that killed 18 people
Egypt has ordered the arrest of eight people over a collision between two trains that killed 18 people last week, the...
Egypt: Building collapse in Cairo claims 25 lives
Egyptian state media said Sunday that at least 25 people were killed in a 10-storey building collapse in Cairo the day...
Algeria: Hirak launches fifth week of anti-regime protest
Pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in Algeria Friday, with authorities making arrests in the capital and...
Tunisia: Italian garbage still piled up in Tunisia, owners unwilling to remove it
Italy and Tunisia were pressed on Thursday to clear hundreds of containers of waste illegally shipped and stored at a...
Algeria: Journalist Drareni heads back to court after Supreme Court orders retrial
By Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret - Prominent journalist Khaled Drareni, a symbol of the struggle for a free...
Libya’s media professionals face censorship, intimidation and threats
By Hamza Mekouar - A decade after the fall of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi and the end of his regime's stranglehold...
Tunisian youth in permanent fear of repression
By Caroline Nelly Perrot - Hamza Nasri, a young Tunisian activist, hit the streets as part of anti-government protests...
Moroccan farmers in Algeria’s Laaroda oasis: Victims of a neglected conflict
Moroccan farmers in an isolated oasis on the Algerian border are bearing the brunt of regional tensions after Algiers...
Tunisia counts its losses from the Jasmine Revolution
Tunisia's government has finally given an official toll of 129 dead and 634 injured in its 2011 revolution, in what an...