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Egypt’s Demographic Time Bomb
This month of June 2024, the Egyptian population reached the record number 106.4 million people. Egyptians added...
Libya’s Abnormal New Normal
By Arezki Daoud: Since 2011, Libya has been engulfed in a bloody civil war after the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Over...
Morocco: Death toll from earthquake reaches 1,305 says government
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: Morocco's deadliest earthquake in decades has killed more than 1,300 people, authorities said...
Morocco: National tragedy hits Morocco with deadly quake
Lahcen sits in the corner of the village dispensary in Moulay Brahim in Morocco's High Atlas mountains. He's...
Morocco: Earthquake kills hundreds of people in Marrakesh
A powerful earthquake that shook Morocco late Friday killed more than 600 people, interior ministry figures showed,...
Egypt: With 2.2 million births in 2022, president Sisi urges lower birth rate
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called Tuesday for measures to slow the birthrate in the Arab world's most...
Tunisia: President continues to weaken Islamist party Ennahdha with more arrests
Two leaders of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha have been arrested, the party said Wednesday, in...
Egypt: Four dead in Cairo building collapse
A building collapse on Wednesday killed four Egyptians from the same family in a Cairo neighbourhood where a similar...
Algeria: Eight killed by floods in northwest Algeria
Flooding caused by torrential rain has killed eight people in western Algeria, the country's civil defence service...
Algeria says it was forced to shoot at jet skiers, as families plan to file complaints in French courts
Algeria said Sunday its security forces had opened fire this week after a group of jet skiers from Morocco ignored...
Niger: Anti-France sentiment spikes in Niger, tense weekend of protests ahead
Niger braced Friday for a weekend of planned anti-French rallies as tensions mount between the country's new military...
Algeria: France says one citizen killed, another ‘jailed in Algeria’
France on Friday confirmed one of its citizens had been killed and another was jailed, a day after media reports said...
Sudan: Deadly violence grips Darfur
Sudan's army chief on Tuesday visited Egypt on his first trip abroad since the outbreak of war in April, with the...
Sahel: Sanctions imposed against Niger to trigger catastrophic humanitarian crisis
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the political crisis in Niger and the sanctions imposed against the coup regime...
Algeria sentences 2 men to prison for allegedly “publishing classified info”
An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced an Algerian-Canadian researcher and Algerian journalist each to two years in...
How Sudan is imploding
War and hunger threaten to "consume" all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of...
Egypt releases political activist Ahmed Douma
Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country's 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind...
Sahel: As political tensions persist, Niger population faces hardship
Floods this week have caused the death of 31 people in politically battered Niger, including eight following the...
Migrations: The deadly sea crossings of North Africa
A rubber dinghy brings back dozens of people from one of six boats the Tunisian coastguard intercepted in a 24-hour...
North African governments struggling with migrant crisis
Tunisia and Libya announced Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of...
Brief: Morocco’s overcrowded prisons ($)
The number of prisoners held in penitentiary establishments in Morocco reached, as of August 07, 2023, a total of...
Migration Crisis: Latest News
Four dead, 51 missing in shipwreck off Tunisia At least 11 migrants have died in a shipwreck off Tunisia's coast and...
Migrants: Ten dead migrants wash ashore in Tunisia
The bodies of 10 migrants have been found on a beach in Tunisia, near the city of Sfax which has seen a spike this...
Egypt: One missing after tug sinks in Suez collision with tanker
A Suez Canal tugboat sank and a crew member was missing after the vessel collided with a Hong Kong-flagged tanker, the...
Tunisian brand turns sea plastic into green couture
By Francoise Kadri: The two men in bright overalls rooting for plastic on a Tunisian beach do so to make a living, but...
Morocco: 24 people killed in bus accident
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A minibus carrying market-goers in Morocco plunged into a ravine on Sunday, killing 24 people in...
Rights group criticizes Saudi legal system over jailing of Egyptian psychiatrist
An Egyptian psychiatrist jailed in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to prison on terrorism charges following an "unfair...
Culture: Tuareg flock to Algerian desert oasis for ancient festival
In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of...
Anti-migrant sentiment in North Africa turns into humanitarian disaster
In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed...
Niger: Athletes from Niger struggle to perform in Kinshasa after coup
Nigerien participants in the Francophone Games, which have kicked off in DR Congo's capital, have been left struggling...
Algeria: Dozens killed in raging wildfires
Algerian firefighters on Tuesday battled blazes that have killed 34 people across the tinder-dry north, destroyed...
Five Moroccan migrants drown off Western Sahara
At least five Moroccans drowned when their boat sank off Western Sahara, a rights group said on Tuesday, as crossing...
Tunisia: Panic in Europe over Tunisia’s potential economic collapse
By Francoise Kadri: Western nations fear an economic collapse in Tunisia could trigger even greater migrant flows to...
Migrations: New tragedy at sea as 13 migrants from Senegal perish off the coast of Morocco
At least 13 Senegalese migrants from the same town died when their boat sank off the coast of Morocco late last week,...
Egypt: Under intense international pressure, Egypt releases Egyptian-Irish student Patrick Zaki two days after he was sentenced to prison
Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki and lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer walked out of prison Thursday, relatives said, a day...
Tunisia: Major blaze erupts on Tunisia-Algeria border, as temperatures soar to 47C
Firefighters in Tunisia are battling a major blaze that has raged for two days in a pine forest near the border with...
Tunisia and EU negotiate anti-migration strategy ($)
By Arezki Daoud: The European Union wants Tunisia to do more to stem the influx of undocumented migrants into Europe....
Morocco continues to use judicial harassment against journalists
By Ismail Bellaoualli and Philippe Agret: Morocco's top court has rejected the final appeals of two journalists, Omar...
Egypt: Three years in prison and tortured for allegedly spreading “fake news”
The United States called on Egypt Wednesday to release rights researcher Patrick Zaki, a day after he was sentenced to...
Algeria: 34 killed in bus-truck collision near Tamanrasset
At least 34 people were killed when an Algerian passenger bus collided head-on with a commercial vehicle and burst...
Morocco: Navy rescues 800 migrants trying to get to Spain
Morocco's navy has rescued more than 800 would-be migrants and recovered one body since early last week, state media...
Sahel: Malian journalist Mohamed Youssouf Bathily acquitted over PM ‘assassination’ claim
A prominent Malian TV and radio journalist was acquitted on Tuesday on charges that he falsely claimed a former...