(Photo: Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch) Morocco will stop subsidizing butane gas in 2026, but prices will begin to...
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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...
Morocco: Royal Air Maroc hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis, slashes pilot pays by 30% (s)
While air transport is one of the sectors most affected by border closings in Morocco and the declaration of a state...
Algeria looking to renew chloroquine stocks as it generalizes its use (s)
MEA Risk LLC: Algeria is urgently looking for international suppliers who can immediately sell large stocks of...
Morocco: Migrants breach Morocco-Spain border in Melilla
Madrid, April 6, 2020 - More than 50 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla on Monday...
Algeria: Regime jails human rights activist Abdelouahab Fersaoui
Algiers, April 6, 2020 - An Algerian court on Monday sentenced another leading figure in the country's anti-regime...
Egypt: Covid-19 confirmed inside Cairo’s National Cancer Institute
Cairo, April 4, 2020 - Egypt's main cancer institute has confirmed 15 cases of the novel coronavirus among its medical...
Algeria’s political police unleash terror on journalists and others
Journalist Meriem Chorfi, Editor-in-chief Mouhoub Rafik, and Mohamed Laamari, the Publisher of Algerian newspaper Sawt...
Tunisia: Untested Prime Minister gets super powers thanks to Covid-19
Tunisia's parliament on Saturday gave the prime minister special powers for two months to allow for the accelerated...
Egypt: Coptic leaders cancel Easter Holy Week services
Cairo, April 4, 2020 - Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church has decided to suspend prayers preceding Easter celebrations...
Algeria’s political police punishes another journalist
Algiers, April 5, 2020 - An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced to eight months in jail a journalist who had provided...
Covid-19 in Algeria: China to the rescue
Algiers, April 4, 2020 - As adversity strikes in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, Algeria has found a helping...
Covid-19: Morocco clears its prisons to fight pandemic
Rabat, April 5, 2020 - Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Sunday pardoned more than 5,600 prisoners and ordered their...
Libya: Former Interim Prime Minister of Libya Jibril dies from Covid-19
Mahmud Jibril, the former head of the Libyan rebel government that overthrew dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, died...
Nigeria: Refugee camps in Nigeria facing a new enemy
Maiduguri, Nigeria, April 3, 2020 (By Audu Abba Kurama and Aminu Abubakar in Kano) - Men and women cluster around...
Sahel: Mali held elections despite the pandemic
Bamako, April 2, 2020 - Turnout for Mali's parliamentary elections this week was 36 percent, officials said on...
Sahel: French soldiers active in the Sahel test positive for Covid-19
Paris, April 2, 2020 - Four French soldiers deployed in the Sahel region of western Africa in France's anti-jihadist...
Sahel: Covid-19 magnifies food crisis in the Sahel
Dakar, April 2, 2020 - More than five million people in Africa's conflict-ravaged Sahel region are facing hunger, the...
Maghreb: Media as collateral damage of Covid-19
April 2, 2020 - Measures to stem the novel coronavirus pandemic have affected the distribution and publication of...
Algeria is committing “acts of physical endangerment” with revenge arrests
April 3, 2020 - Reporters Without Borders has accused Algeria's government of taking advantage of the coronavirus...
Algeria: Food shortages lead to breaches in social distancing and confinement rules
The coronavirus is creating acute shortages of high-consumption foods and commodities. Despite the calls for social...
States within the state: Nigerian governors order their own state shutdown
Warri, Nigeria, April 1, 2020 - Thousands of Nigerians have been left cut off from homes and businesses as states...
Tunisia wants global approach to pandemic, but Security Council in disarray
April 1, 2020 - Tunisia has proposed a UN Security Council resolution calling for "urgent international action" to...
Maghreb: Anger in Tunisia and Morocco over poorly managed lockdown
Mnilha, Tunisie, March 31, 2020 - Several hundred Tunisians demonstrated in a working class district of the capital...
Africa: How to lock down a 20-million-people city?
Lagos, March 31, 2020 - Roads in Africa's largest city Lagos were deserted Tuesday after Nigeria locked down its...
Sport: Mediterranean Games pushed to 2022 due to Covid-19
Algiers, March 31, 2020 - The 2021 Mediterranean Games have been postponed a year until 2022 as a result of the impact...
Mauritania: French-Mauritanian national dies from Covid-19
Nouakchott, March 31, 2020 - Mauritania has declared its first fatality from coronavirus, state media reported on...
Algeria jails more journalists despite Covid-19
Algiers, March 29, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was Sunday ordered to be held in pre-trial detention, press freedom...
Libya does the right thing: it releases prisoners in pretrial detention amid Covid-19
Tripoli, March 29, 2020 - Libya's justice ministry announced Sunday over 450 prisoners were being freed in a bid to...
Africa is completely unprepared to deal with confinement of large populations
Lagos, March 30, 2020 (By Celia Lebur) - Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in...
Morocco earmarks more than $200 mil. to buy equipment to face Covid-19
Rabat, March 27, 2020 - Morocco's economy ministry said Friday it had allocated two billion dirhams ($201 million) to...
Algerian regime takes advantage of Covid-19 crisis to arrest opponents and journalists
Algiers, March 27, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was arrested on Friday, press freedom group Reporters Without Borders...
Tunisia: The women behind the mask
Tunis, March 26, 2020 - By Caroline Nelly Perrot: In Tunisia, 150 people -- mostly women -- have isolated themselves...
North Africans rush to Sanofi, betting on its antimalarials to fight Covid-19
The Algerian Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform announced on 23 March the use of a drug to treat...
Libya now fighting two wars: a civil war and Covid-19
Tripoli, March 25, 2020 - Libya has reported its first case of the novel coronavirus, a particular source of concern...
The disastrous confinement of the poor and the mediocrity of Maghreb regimes
March 25, 2020 (By Sophie Pons) - In Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, workers in informal jobs fear not only the novel...
Four more African countries announce first case of Covid-19
Bamako, March 25, 2020 - Four countries led by war-ravaged Mali on Wednesday joined the lengthening list of African...
Sahel: Mali announces Covid-19 curfew after first case was identified
Bamako, March 25, 2020 - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced a nationwide night-time curfew on Wednesday...
North Africa’s incomprehensible night curfews
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Persistent, logical and even unpopular policies must be implemented to fight the coronavirus....
Education: Studying from home amid Covid-19
Tripoli, March 24, 2020 - By Rim Tahar - Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf...
Concerns about Africa’s readiness to confront Covid-19
Lagos, March 24, 2020 - Equipment shortages, scarce beds and poorly-paid doctors and nurses: Africa is finding that it...
Covid-19: Africa update as of March 23, 2020
March 23, 2020 - Democratic Republic of Congo's second largest city began a 48-hour lockdown and three more African...