Drought is wreaking havoc on North Africa’s water supply and on its agriculture. All countries in the region are...
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Egypt: After wishing each other a happy new year, Egyptians see price hikes that will make 2024 not such a happy year
Bread has always been a source of concern for rulers and leaders. When their prices increase, watch out for the public...
Sahel: Kidnapped in Libya in 2017, South African medic released this week in Mali
A South African paramedic who had been held by jihadists in Mali for over six years has been released, security and...
Sahel: Protests over bad roads continue in Mali
Bamako, Sept 11, 2019 (By Maīmouna Moro) - Like many of his fellow Malians, Ousmane Maiga used to drive regularly...
Morocco: Flood overturns bus in Errachidia, 17 killed
Rabat, Sept 9, 2019 - At least 17 people were killed in Morocco when flood waters overturned their bus in the...
Morocco: Female journalist and others arrested for alleged ‘abortion’
Rights groups urged Moroccan authorities on Friday to immediately release a journalist arrested on charges of having...
Sahel: Kidnappings intensify in southeast Niger
Niamey, Sept 5, 2019 - At least 66 civilians were kidnapped in July in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria...
Sahel: Rainy season hits Niger hard
Niamey, Sept 4, 2019 (By Boureima Hama) - "That's it, time to go!" As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards...
Sahel: Building collapses in Bamako, Mali. Twelve dead
Bamako, Sept 1, 2019 - Twelve people were killed on Sunday when a three-storey building under construction collapsed...
Morocco: Raging flood water claims lives of seven people in Taroudant
Rabat, Aug 29, 2019 (AFP) - At least seven people were killed Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a...
Sahel: Scores killed in pastoral conflict in southern Chad
N'Djamena, Aug 28, 2019 - Eleven people were killed in fighting between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers in a...
Sahel: Unrest in Mali over dismal road conditions
Kati, Mali, Aug 27, 2019 (AFP) - More than 1,000 trucks loaded with merchandise were blocked Tuesday at the entrance...
Libya: More deaths off the coast of Libya
Tripoli, Aug 27, 2019 - The bodies of five migrants including a Moroccan child were recovered off Libya's coast...
Libya: More migrants rescued at sea
Rome, Aug 26, 2019 - A German charity said Monday it had rescued some 100 people from a collapsing dinghy in the...
Algeria: Regime ignores calls for smooth political transition, insists on its own unpopular roadmap
In a message published this week by the state news agency APS, Interim head of state Abdelkader Bensalah repeated the...
Sahel: 150 children killed in Mali violence in six months
Bamako, Aug 13, 2019 - UN child protection body UNICEF warned on Tuesday children in Mali faced rising violence with...
Legmi, Tunisia’s coveted date palm drink
By Anaelle De Araujo: As soon as the sun is up, people in southern Tunisia rush out to buy a glass or bottle of legmi,...
Libya: MSF says 80 migrants rescued off Libyan coast
Aug 10, 2019 - The Ocean Viking charity ship rescued more than 80 migrants off the coast of Libya on Saturday,...
Tunisia turns back Ivorian migrants to Libya despite safety concerns
Tunis, Aug 7, 2019 - The United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the safety of 36 Ivorian migrants, including...
Egypt: Scores killed in car collision in Cairo
Cairo, Aug 5, 2019 - At least 20 people have been killed when a speeding car driving against traffic crashed into...
Egypt: One third of Egyptians live with less than $1.4 per day
Cairo, July 30, 2019 - Nearly a third of Egyptians live below the poverty line, up from 27.8 percent in 2015, Egypt's...
Morocco: Court issues death sentences in 2017 Marrakesh shooting
July 27, 2019 - A Moroccan court has sentenced to death two Dutch citizens over the accidental killing of a medical...
Libya: Warlord Haftar bombs hospital near Tripoli, kills dozen
Tripoli, July 28, 2019- Five doctors were killed in an air strike by forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on a...
Morocco: Landslide buries bus near Marrakesh, kills 15
Rabat, July 26, 2019 - Moroccan emergency crews pulled 15 bodies from the mud after a rare summer downpour triggered a...
Libya: Dozens of migrants missing in the Mediterranean
Tripoli, July 25, 2019 - Some 150 migrants are missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya, the International...
Egyptian minister suggests that people who criticize Egypt should be killed.
Montreal, July 24, 2019 - Egypt's immigration minister is facing criticism following a speech in Canada in which she...
Sahel: Lake Chad nations want $100 million to fight global warming
Niamey, July 19, 2019 - The four countries bordering Lake Chad on Friday launched a fund aimed at collecting $100...
Morocco: Migrants breach Melilla border fence
Madrid, July 19, 2019 - Around 50 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco...
Sahel: Son of Mali President Keita fails to convince judge in defamation suit
Bamako, July 17, 2019 - A Malian court on Wednesday threw out a defamation case brought by President Ibrahim Boubacar...
Egypt: Restrictive law likely to mark the death of many NGOs in Egypt
Cairo, July 15, 2019 - Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments to a controversial law that rights groups say...
Sahel: Boat capsizes in Niger’s Goulbi River, kills 11 passengers
July 11, 2019 - Eleven people drowned Thursday when their boat capsized on a river in central Niger, the governor of...
Egypt: Pro-Mubarak Facebook page admin arrested for “spreading false info”
Cairo, July 11, 2019 - The administrator of a Facebook page supporting Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak was...
Algeria: Police repression against peaceful protesters intensifies
Algiers, July 7, 2019 - Algerian police said Sunday they had opened an investigation after a video circulated online...
Egypt: Consumers in Egypt confronted with higher fuel prices
Cairo, July 5, 2019 - Egypt increased fuel prices Friday in its latest round of subsidy cuts under a reform package...
Tunisia: Prime Minister issues ban on niqab in public offices
Tunis, July 5, 2019 - Prime Minister Youssef Chahed decided Friday to ban the niqab Muslim face covering for women in...
Algerian journalist beaten, humiliated after arrest covering demos
Algiers, July 1, 2019 - A journalist arrested last week as he covered Algeria's weekly anti-regime demonstration said...
The Sahara, a major corridor for Sub-Sahara migrants
Niamey, June 25, 2019 - Nearly 20,000 migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger over the past three...
Algeria: Regime of General Gaid Salah arrests 18 for carrying Berber flag, increases repression of peaceful protesters
Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested 18 people who had brandished the Berber minority flag during an...
Algeria’s military command pushing for more instability
By Arezki Daoud: The deconstruction of the Algerian regime of the past two decades is underway. At least the public...
Egypt: Fallout of President Morsi’s death
Egypt's Morsi likely 'more popular' after death Cairo, June 19, 2019 (By Aziz El Massassi) - Unpopular in power and...
Morocco: UN warns of over-urbanising Morocco’s coastline
Mohammedia, Morocco, June 17, 2019 - Beneath an apartment block that looms over Monica beach in the western coastal...
Egypt: Former President Mohamed Morsi dies after facing judge
Cairo, June 17, 2019 - Mohamed Morsi, who died Monday aged 67, was Egypt's first democratically elected president but...
Tunisia denies landing of migrants stuck at sea
Tunis, June 14, 2019 - Dozens of migrants rescued in international waters off Tunisia are still stranded 15 days later...