The authorities in Niger summoned the Algerian ambassador Bekhadda Mehdi on 2 April, over Algeria’s treatment of...
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Morocco: Health workers go on strike, demand implementation of reforms
While the healthcare sector is undergoing strikes and tensions between health workers and the government rise, Morocco...
Morocco: Price of butane gas to increase by 25% in April
(Photo: Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch) Morocco will stop subsidizing butane gas in 2026, but prices will begin to...
Egypt: Looming social unrest
Cairo, April 8, 2020 (By Farid Farid) - Haggard and dishevelled from the stress of making ends meet, day labourers...
Egypt maintains night-time curfew until at least April 23
Cairo, April 8, 2020 - Egypt will extend a nationwide night-time curfew by a further two weeks in a bid to slow the...
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...