Tunisia’s capital region faces a mounting urban safety crisis as officials warn of structural risks to residents In...
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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...
West Africa: Despite Record Oil Production, Senegal Faces Fuel Price Pressure
In Senegal, drivers are feeling the pinch as fuel prices soar to the highest levels in the entire WAEMU region—even...
Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prison
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen...
Libya: Police in Al-Marj open fire on civilians who were protesting economic despair
Protesters in Libya's second city Benghazi set fire to the headquarters of the parallel eastern administration...
The Algerian regime does it again: it blocks Internet access for the whole country to secure a pointless high-school exam
Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African...
Morocco: The coronavirus’ destructive impact on a major city
Snake charmers, storytellers and crowds of tourists; the legendary Jamaa El Fna square of Morocco's Marrakesh is...
Libya: Unrest in Benghazi over economic despair
Libyans took to the streets of Benghazi overnight to protest against rising economic hardship, in a rare display of...
Tunisia battered by heavy rains and floods, six killed
Six people, including three children, have been killed in six days of heavy rains across Tunisia, a spokesman for the...
Niger: Dozens of migrants saved in Niger desert after they were abandoned by smugglers
Eighty-three migrants were saved last week after their smugglers abandoned them in the Sahara desert in northern...
Egypt: Budding black market for convalescent plasma as Egypt adds it to its anti-Covid arsenal
Egypt's virus death toll approaches 6,000 Egypt has detected more than 100,000 Covid-19 infections and reported 5,541...
Sahel: Chad regime targets newspapers with forced closure
Chad's paramount media authority has suspended 12 newspapers for three months for failing to conform with a 2018 law,...
Morocco: Casablanca shuts down again as Covid-19 infections surge
Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day pupils were due to return to classes, in...
Egypt’s brutal and punitive judicial system
Egyptian human rights groups on Saturday accused the authorities of "recycling" judicial cases against dissidents to...
Algeria: Two political prisoners go on hunger strike
(Photo: Poet Mohamed Tadjadit) Two jailed activists from Algeria's anti-government "Hirak" protest movement have been...
Niger to drive UN talks on post Covid-19
United Nations, United States, Sept 1, 2020 - Niger, the current president of the UN Security Council, said Tuesday it...
Egypt’s Al-Azhar slams Charlie Hebdo for Mohammed cartoons reprint
Cairo, Sept 2, 2020 - Egypt's highest Muslim authority Al-Azhar on Wednesday condemned French satirical magazine...
Mali: Civilian killed by French forces near Gao
Paris, Sept 1, 2020 - French anti-jihadist troops in Mali killed a civilian Tuesday and injured two others after a bus...
Sahel: Communal clashes claim several lives in southern Chad
At least ten people have been killed in fresh fighting between nomadic herders and farmers in southern Chad, a local...
Libya: Covid-19 kills Moustafa Karwad, mayor of Misrata
Tripoli, Aug 31, 2020 - The mayor of the western city of Misrata died Monday of the novel coronavirus, Libya's unity...
Libya’s GNA fires Interior and Defense Ministers after violence against protesters
Tripoli, Aug 29, 2020 - The head of Libya's unity government on Saturday appointed a new defence minister and army...
The Algerian regime now sends poets to prison
The Algerian regime is gripped by fear that the anti-government Hirak movement reignites. Mass arrests have...
Niger: Death toll in Niamey’s floods reaches 45
Niamey, Aug 27, 2020 - Several areas of the Niger capital Niamey remained under water on Thursday as the death toll in...
Morocco and Algeria turn to Russia and China for a Covid-19 vaccine
North African governments are once again relying on foreign sources to help them deal with their crises. After...
Libya: Protest in Tripoli ends with violence and kidnapping
ripoli, Aug 27, 2020 - Libya's government in Tripoli on Thursday warned it would use force against militia gunmen who...
Libyans continue to rally in Tripoli over dismal living conditions
Tripoli, Aug 25, 2020 - Hundreds of young Libyans protested in Tripoli for a third consecutive day to decry...
Algeria’s repressive courts sentence journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to prison on bogus charges
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, his lawyer told AFP, in...
Libyans protest poor living conditions
Tripoli, Aug 23, 2020 - Hundreds of Libyans marched in the capital Tripoli on Sunday evening to protest deteriorating...
Immigration: 22 bodies recovered off the coast of Zwara, Libya
Tripoli, Aug 23, 2020 - The Libyan Red Crescent retrieved the bodies of 22 migrants off the coastal town of Zwara on...
Libya: Red Cross warns of fast spreading Covid-19 cases in Libya
Coronavirus cases have skyrocketed 15-fold in Libya since June, the Red Cross said Thursday, warning this was further...
Morocco: New anti-covid measures in Casablanca and Marrakesh as infections spike
Moroccan authorities Thursday slapped tight controls on movement in Casablanca and Marrakesh, the North African...
Immigration: More migrants die trying to reach Spanish islands
Madrid, Aug 21, 2020 - Five African migrants have died trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands by boat, officials said...
Morocco: Migrants storm border fence separating Morocco to Spain’s Melilla
Madrid, Aug 20, 2020 - One African man died and eight people were injured when around 300 migrants tried to storm the...
Libya: Nearly 50 people perish in the Med Sea
At least 45 migrants and refugees perished off Libya this week in the deadliest shipwreck there so far this year, the...
Egypt: Another building collapses in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt - A listed building in the centre of Egypt's capital partially collapsed injuring five people Saturday,...
Italy: Overwhelmed by new influx of migrants, Italy calls on Tunisia to help
Tunis, Aug 17, 2020 - Italy has no more room for illegal migrants, its foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday on a...
Niger: Floods kill dozens, 80,000 people affected
Abidjan, Aug 13, 2020 - Thirty-three people in Niger have died and more than 80,000 have been affected by floods...
Egypt: Another senior opposition figure dies in Egyptian prison
Cairo, Aug 13, 2020 - A senior leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood died Thursday in an Egyptian prison where he...
Mali security forces used excessive force against protesters
Bamako, Aug 12, 2020 - Security forces in Mali used excessive force in response to violent anti-government protests in...
Algeria’s outrageous justice system: jails some, releases others for the same offenses: signs of unstable regime
Algiers, Aug 11, 2020 - Supporters of jailed Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni on Tuesday demanded his release in an...
Growing tension between Rome and Tunis over illegal immigration
On Monday, 10 August, special flights will be organized to bring back home Tunisian migrants who landed in Italy over...
Niger confronted with multiple natural disasters
Heavy rains that have struck Niger since June have claimed 19 lives and inflicted economic harm on tens of thousands...
Chad: Worsening human rights record in Chad after death of civilians in prison
N'Djamena, Aug 8, 2020 - Forty-four people who died in a Chad prison cell were civilians who succumbed to brutal...