Tunisian journalist El-Heni was released from prison on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, but he was given a six-month...
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Libya: Protesters force closure of El Sharara oil field over local economics
The North Africa Journal - Protestors seeking social and economic development for the Fezzan region, located in the...
Drought is pushing North African economies to the brink and to social unrest
Drought is wreaking havoc on North Africa’s water supply and on its agriculture. All countries in the region are...
Algeria reports second COVID-19 death
Algiers, March 12, 2020 - Algeria has registered two deaths from the novel coronavirus, the health ministry announced...
North Africa coronavirus: 12 March 2020 update
Listen to the audio podcast above By Arezki Daoud: It is not total panic mode yet, but there is a feeling that the...
Algeria registers first coronavirus death
Algiers, March 12, 2020 (AFP) - Algeria has registered its first death from the novel coronavirus, the health ministry...
Tunisians rush to buy garlic to fight coronavirus
Tunis, March 12, 2020 - The price of garlic has shot up in Tunisia amid a buying rush as consumers hope it will help...
Libya still officially coronavirus-free
Tripoli, March 11, 2020 -By Jihad Dorgham- Despite advice from health authorities to shun public gatherings, Moayed...
Egypt: Foreign tourists stranded in Nile cruise over coronavirus flown back home
Luxor, Egypt, March 11, 2020 - Egyptian authorities said Wednesday that 46 French and US tourists who had been...
Morocco: First coronavirus death in Casablanca
Rabat, March 10, 2020 - Morocco's health ministry said Tuesday the country had recorded its first death linked to the...
Egypt: First death in Egypt’s coronavirus outbreak
Luxor, Egypt, March 9, 2020 - Scores of foreign tourists and Egyptian crew Monday remained quarantined aboard a Nile...
Algeria: Police prevent Saturday protest rally in Algiers
Algiers, March 7, 2020 - Algerian police arrested around ten demonstrators at an anti-government protest in Algiers...
Egypt: New coronavirus cases detected in Egypt
Cairo, March 6, 2020 - Egypt detected 12 new cases Friday of the novel coronavirus among workers aboard a Nile cruise...
Mauritania: Italy denies tourists knowingly evaded Mauritania virus containment
Nouakchott, March 6, 2020 - A group of Italian tourists that travelled in Mauritania without undergoing a...
Coronavirus exposes the deep divisions in the Arab world
March 4, 2020 - Egypt's government said Wednesday it will ban Qatari nationals from entry over fears of coronavirus...
Sahel: Mauritania expels Italian tourists over coronavirus
Nouakchott, March 4, 2020 - A group of Italian tourists tried to escape coronavirus confinement in Mauritania but were...
Sahel: Central Mali riven by communal violence
Mopti, Mali, March 4, 2020 - Less than a year after more than 160 Fulani civilians were massacred at dawn in Ogossagou...
Morocco confirms first coronavirus case from Moroccan national residing in northern Italy
On Monday, 2 March, Morocco confirmed its coronavirus case. Health authorities said the patient is a Moroccan national...
Tunisia announces first case of coronavirus, joins four other African nations affected
Tunisia is now the fifth African country to report a coronavirus case, announced on Monday March 2, 2020. It now joins...
Egypt: Health officials identify second case of coronavirus
Cairo, March 2, 2020 - Egypt on Monday reported its second case of novel coronavirus, more than two weeks after...
International: How Nigerians are bracing for coronavirus
Lagos, Feb 28, 2020 (By Emmanuel Akinwotu) - When Joyce Alali heard that sub-Saharan Africa's first case of...
Global markets rattled by coronavirus
Lagos, Feb 28, 2020 - Nigeria reported the first new coronavirus case in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday, as global stock...
Sahel: With insurgents several steps ahead, Sahel leaders are disoriented
Nouakchott, Feb 25, 2020 - A summit of Sahel states heard appeals Tuesday to step up the fight against jihadists whose...
Algerian health authorities announce first case of coronavirus
The Algerian ministry of health said the country has recorded its first case of coronavirus. The announcement was made...
Moroccans rally for democracy and better living conditions
Tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets of Casablanca on Sunday, 23 February 2020, to renew their demand...
Algeria: Pro-democracy activist Fodil Boumala on trial, prosecutor wants one year’s prison term
Algiers, Feb 24, 2020 - An Algerian prosecutor is seeking a year's prison sentence for Fodil Boumala, a leading figure...
Egypt: Doctor in court over deadly genital mutilation
Cairo, Feb 22, 2020 - Egypt's state prosecutor decided to re-arrest and put on trial a doctor for performing a genital...
Egypt confronts Ethiopia over future access to Nile’s water
Addis Ababa, Feb 18, 2020 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that it could take "months" to resolve a...
Mauritania intimidates human rights activists
Nouakchott, Feb 19, 2020 - Amnesty International voiced concern Wednesday over Mauritania's arrest of 14 human rights...
Algerians brace for major anti-government rallies this weekend, police continue to repress
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital Algiers, on Tuesday, 18 February, during the 52nd weekly...
Sahel: Food distribution program gone wrong, scores of refugees killed in Niger stampede
Niamey, Feb 17, 2020 - Twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede...
Sahel: Turmoil in central Mali
Bamako, Feb 14, 2020 - Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight on a village in central Mali, local officials...
Sahel: Rights activist in prison for speaking about Chad’s president’s health
N'Djamena, Feb 14, 2020 - Amnesty International said the head of a human rights group in Chad was being "secretly...
North Africa’s first case of coronavirus confirmed in Egypt
Cairo, Feb 14, 2020 - Egypt's health ministry on Friday announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in...
Sahel: Second deadly attack on a Fulani village in Mali’s Mopti region
Bamako, Feb 14, 2020 (By Kassim Traore) - Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight on a village in central...
North Africa confronting tough climate change
Skoura, Morocco, Feb 14, 2020 (By Ismail Bellaouali) - Dead palm trees lie on dry, yellowish earth near an abandoned...
West Africa facing Jihadist contagion from the Sahel
Cotonou, Feb 14, 2020 (By Josue Mehouenou with Sophie Bouillon in Lagos) - An attack on police in the far north of...
Demographic milestone: Egypt’s population exceeds 100 million
Cairo, Feb 11, 2020 - Egypt's population has passed 100 million, its statistics agency said Tuesday, highlighting the...
Libya: Haftar’s forces obstruct humanitarian flights into Libya
Tripoli, Feb 12, 2020 - The United Nations condemned Wednesday the obstruction of its flights into conflict-hit Libya...
Egypt: Cairo’s green lung razed for roads to new desert capital
Cairo, Feb 11, 2020 - By By Hager Harabech and Farid Farid: In the traffic-choked megacity of Cairo, the historic...
Tunisia: At least 200 children of Tunisian Jihadists stranded in war zones
Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on Tunisia to bring home nearly 200 children of suspected jihadists stranded or...
Morocco: Tough times for migrants in Morocco
Fnideq, Morocco, Feb 7, 2020 (Hamza Mekouar) - Mustapha left his home in Guinea two years ago to make the arduous...
Morocco: Rights groups urge Morocco to free people jailed for their political opinion
Rabat, Feb 5, 2020 - Human rights groups called Wednesday for the release of at least 10 Moroccan citizens arrested...