A wave of youth-driven demonstrations swept through Morocco over the past several nights, with rallies unfolding in at...
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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...
Senegal Battles Dual Epidemics: Monkeypox and Rift Valley Fever
Senegalese health authorities have announced two concurrent epidemics: monkeypox (Mpox) and Rift Valley fever. So far,...
Covid-19: Algeria and Morocco start vaccination campaign
Algeria kicks off Covid-19 vaccination campaign with Sputnik V, expects first shipment of AstraZeneca vaccine Algeria...
Morocco under pressure to release from prison historian and rights activist Maati Monjib
Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Morocco to release dissident historian and rights activist Maati Monjib, who...
Tunisia: Death of protester in Sousse reignites unrest as PM proposes new cabinet
Man hit by teargas canister in Sousse dies Protesters clashed with police in the central Tunisian town of Sbeitla on...
Covid-19: Vaccination campaign begins in Egypt
Egypt began its Covid-19 immunisation program Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its...
Libya: Rescue operations fetch 374 vulnerable migrants off the coast of Libya in two days
More than 350 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast by the Ocean Viking humanitarian vessel in just two...
Morocco’s abusive use of preventative detention
Morocco's detention of thousands of suspects awaiting judicial proceedings has sparked a heated debate in the North...
Tunisia: Prime Minister recognizes “legitimate” anger of protesters but unrest continues
Young Tunisians clashed with security forces overnight and protest organisers called for anti-government rallies...
Libya: Officers killed in navy school fire near Tripoli
A fire at a Libyan naval academy near the capital Tripoli killed two senior officers and a civilian, the health...
Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the seizure of assets of former president Mohamed Morsi and 88 other members of...
Covid-19: Despite promising vaccines, worldwide deaths soar as nations face uncertainty
The worldwide death toll from coronavirus approached two million on Friday, with Europe topping 30 million infections...
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
An Egyptian court Thursday prolonged the detention of two young women, accusing them of human trafficking connected to...
Morocco: Torrential rain and dilapidated drainage systems kill one in Casablanca
Torrential rain in Morocco this week after a period of drought has caused at least one death in its economic capital...
Libya: Growing pressure on Tripoli-based government over mass graves
Human Rights Watch appealed Thursday to Libya's internationally recognised government to launch an investigation aimed...
Jailed Algerian pro-democracy activists in hospital amid hunger strike
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital Tuesday, 10 days after they began a hunger...
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and...
Chad: Deadly communal clashes in Salamat
At least 11 people have been killed in the latest fighting between farmers and nomadic herders in the southeast of...
Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
A supporter of Algeria's Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail Monday for satirical social media...
Algeria: 20 migrants killed in new year accident near Sahara town of Tamanrasset
Twenty people were killed Thursday in Algeria when a vehicle carrying mainly African nationals overturned in the south...
Egypt: Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine headed to Egypt, with late January rollout
Egypt has approved the use of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm with its rollout to start...
Egypt: Covid-19 deaths due to shortage of oxygen in Egypt
Egypt said Sunday it had opened an investigation into the deaths of four Covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit...
Egypt: Anger in Rome after Egypt cleared policemen in Giulio Regeni murder case
The Italian government has described as "unacceptable" a decision by Egypt's public prosecutor to clear five police...
Libya: The ordeal of Libya’s civil war amputees
For Radwan Jibril, wounded in a bastion of Libya's 2011 revolution, losing his leg became "inevitable" and he had a...
Morocco arrests rights activist and historian Maati Monjib
Morocco on Tuesday arrested historian and human rights activist Maati Monjib after an investigation into alleged money...
Egypt: Seven patients killed in fire inside Obour hospital
A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said....
Mali: Less than two months after his release by Jihadists, opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of Covid-19
Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of coronavirus aged 71, his family and party said Friday, after being...
Algeria and Morocco continue to repress journalists and rights activists
Algerian regime wants to punish activist Amira Bouraoui Algerian prosecutors have requested a tougher two-year jail...
Morocco picks Chinese Sinopharm and British AstraZeneca for upcoming Covid vaccination campaign
Morocco said Thursday it had ordered 65 million doses of novel coronavirus vaccine, as the North African kingdom...
Egypt: No New Year celebrations allowed this year in Egypt
Egypt has called off all New Year's celebrations in order to stem rising coronavirus cases in the country, Prime...
Despite their divisions, Libyans hope for a return to stability
The Tawergha People: By AlJazeera When Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled, people took revenge on those they...
Sahel: Being a Malian migrant
The age of 43, Aboubacar Traore is trying once again to kickstart his life after three failed attempts at migration....
Algeria: Journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche faces heightened judicial harassment
An Algerian journalist was released from prison Wednesday only to return directly to court for hearings in two other...
Tunisia: Italian garbage landing in Tunisia forces president to fire environment minister
Tunisia’s environment minister and others arrested over Italian trash scandal Tunisia arrested a dozen people...
Egypt: Religious minorities vulnerable as court acquits men who attacked Christian woman
An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday three defendants who stripped and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman...
Coronavirus: Latest global developments
World leaders who got the virus A growing number of world leaders and politicians -- most recently French President...
Divided Maghreb countries celebrate one common thing: the Couscous
Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across northern Africa's Maghreb region and beyond, Wednesday joined the UN list of...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in...
Libya: 18 foreign fishermen released from warlord Haftar’s prisons
Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed,...
Libyan politician Omar Garmil dies from the Coronavirus
Libyan Member of Parliament (MP) Omar Garmil has died in Morocco weeks after being infected with Covid-19, multiple...
Algeria: Recovering from Covid, President says he will return from Germany in two-to-three weeks
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Sunday he was recovering from the Covid-19 illness, in his first...