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Local Conflicts: State-Imposed Land Pact Struggles to Calm Tensions in Brakna, Mauritania
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Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2025) in Morocco: Strong Hosting, Weak Crisis Management
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Libya: Rescue ship saves 86 migrants off Libyan coast
The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking rescued 86 people off the coast of Libya on Tuesday as their vessel foundered...
How Egypt’s road infrastructure investments are ruinous and destructive
Photo by Mostnir Shady Ahmed: In the decade since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power, Egypt has built dozens...
Algeria: An entire country loses Internet access because of a high school exam
The Algerian authorities have become used to enacting individual or collective punishment anytime they face even the...
Migrations: EU on overdrive to get deal with Tunisia to prevent migrations
By Marc Burleigh: EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday are to look at ways to press aid on Tunisia in a bid to...
Egypt: Another building collapses in Alexandria
On Monday, June 26, 2023, a 13-story building in the El-Montazah district, Sidi Bishr area of Alexandria collapsed,...
Migrations: Spike in sea crossing incidents shines spotlight on Moroccan and Spanish governments’ inability to manage the crisis
By Valentin Bontemps: Activists on Friday criticised Madrid and Rabat for failing to act faster to help migrants...
Tunisia to free opposition figure after 4 months in jail: lawyer
A Tunisian judge on Friday ordered the release of opposition figure Chaima Issa four months after her arrest on...
Tunisia: Train derailment near Msaken kills two, injures 34
Tunisia frees journalist held after criticising penal code
Spain: Hundreds of migrants rescued at sea as more boats head to the Canary Islands
Algeria forced more than 9,000 African migrants over the border into Niger, creates “critical humanitarian situation”
Morocco: 51 Moroccan migrants missing in attempt to reach the Canary Islands
Sahel: More trouble in Mali as Touareg groups in north are up in arms over recent junta actions
Tunisia protesters demand ‘political’ prisoners’ freedom
Tunisia: France to donate $28 million to Tunisia to buy equipment to counter migrant crossings
Debate: Does Saudi Arabia matter?
Does Saudi Arabia matter? An unscripted discussion between Arezki Daoud and Giorgio Cafiero: Saudi Arabia has been...
Niger: Niamey hit with crippling power outages
Egypt executes man over high-profile femicide
15 die in Mali as livestock truck collides with coaches
Libya: UN calls for halt to Libya migrant detention, expulsion
Tunisia: Three jailed opposition leaders on hunger strike
Egypt: Three British tourists missing after boat fire in the Red Sea
Morocco: Building collapses in Tit Mellil, at least two killed
Mali resumes train service on Bamako-Kayes line
Egypt’s regime intensifies repression, kills any hope of political stability
Egypt: Shark attack claims life of foreign resident in resort city of Hurghada
Migrant crisis: Italy wants IMF loan for Tunisia to shield self from migrant crisis
Sahel: Over 16 million people need aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
More than 16 million people affected by conflict and climate change in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian...
Morocco: Demonstrators protests in Casablanca against surging cost of living
Hundreds demonstrated Sunday in Morocco's economic capital Casablanca to protest against the surging cost of living in...
Tunisia: Body of young girl found after migrant ships sink off the coast of Sfax
The Tunisian coastguard Friday recovered the body of a young girl thought to have drowned when two vessels carrying...
Jailed Egypt songwriter on hunger strike refuses water
Dissident Egyptian songwriter and poet Galal al-Behairy, who has been on hunger strike for three months in protest at...
Egypt: Sandstorm brings down billboard in Cairo, kills one
One person was killed and five others were injured Thursday when a billboard collapsed in a major thoroughfare as a...
Tunisia’s president considering taxing the wealthy to prevent IMF meddling
Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Thursday proposed taxing the North African country's wealthiest citizens as a way of...
Sahel: Calm returns to Mauritania after riots sparked by death of man in police custody
The Mauritanian government cut internet access for mobile phones Wednesday, a day after protests over the death of a...
Tunisian journalists questioned by police over comments on security forces
Dozens of journalists protested Monday in front of a Tunis police station after two of their colleagues had been taken...
Tunisia arrests two students for a song critical to police, then releases them under presidential pressure
A Tunisian court on Thursday released two students arrested earlier this week for a song criticising police, shortly...
Tunisian president evokes ‘tolerance’ after synagogue attack
Tunisian President Kais Saied has hosted Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders following a deadly mass shooting outside...
Migrations: Nine migrants die in west Tunisia, as number of migrants crossing the Med Sea increased 300% in first quarter
The bodies of nine migrants from sub-Saharan African countries have been found in western Tunisia, near the border...
Sahel: Thousands displaced by Niger conflict set to return
More than 18,000 people who have fled conflict in jihadist-hit western Niger are being given help to return as...
Tunisia: Senior opposition figure Rached Ghannouchi gets one year in prison, as president moves to authoritarianism
The Tunisian Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party on Tuesday condemned the one-year prison sentence handed to its leader...