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Tunisia: Three workers assigned to historic World Heritage wall in Kairouan killed after wall collapsed

A section of the historic walls around the Old City of Kairouan collapsed on Saturday, killing three masons carrying out repairs on the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tunisian authorities said. Two workers were also injured in the accident, which saw a 30 metre (100...

UN rapporteur on human rights pressures Algeria to release jailed activists

The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Algeria to release all jailed human rights activists, citing "ongoing judicial harassment". After a 10-day visit to the North African country, Mary Lawlor said at a press conference the...

North Africa’s use of drones in the agricultural sector

By Aymen Jamli: A drone buzzed back and forth above rows of verdant orange trees planted near Nabeul, eastern Tunisia. The black unmanned aircraft, equipped with a multi-lens camera and sensors, has been enlisted by Tunisian farmers to help adapt to years of drought...

Egypt: Italy sets new trial for Egyptians accused of student’s murder

A court in Italy on Monday set a February date for a new trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused of murdering an Italian student in 2016. Giulio Regeni, 28, was researching his doctorate at Cambridge University when he was abducted while in Cairo....

Mauritania: Christian group released from detention, expelled from Mauritania

Jan 12, 2024

Media sources report that 15 Christians leaders and their families who were arrested by Mauritania at the end of...

Tunisia: Journalist Zied El-Heni released from jail, gets six-month suspended sentence

Tunisia: Journalist Zied El-Heni released from jail, gets six-month suspended sentence

Jan 11, 2024

Tunisian journalist El-Heni was released from prison on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, but he was given a six-month...

Libya: Protesters force closure of El Sharara oil field over local economics

Libya: Protesters force closure of El Sharara oil field over local economics

Jan 8, 2024

The North Africa Journal - Protestors seeking social and economic development for the Fezzan region, located in the...

Tunisia wants toddler migrant back after she reached Italy without parents

Oct 26, 2022

Tunisia said Wednesday it plans to repatriate a four-year-old girl who reached Italy aboard a boat with other...

Algeria continues to attack journalists and free speech

Algeria continues to attack journalists and free speech

Oct 26, 2022

Algerian court hands over death sentence to exiled journalist for publishing “fake” and “confidential” information...

Egypt releases activist Zyad el-Elaimy as it prepares to host global climate conference

Egypt releases activist Zyad el-Elaimy as it prepares to host global climate conference

Oct 24, 2022

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011...

Morocco: Protest in Rabat over economic hardship

Morocco: Protest in Rabat over economic hardship

Oct 24, 2022

A trade union close to the main Moroccan Islamist party on Sunday mobilised several hundred supporters in the capital...

Egypt’s newest prisons considered “cruel and inhuman” by rights activists

Oct 22, 2022

One of Egypt's newest prisons, presented as a model by authorities, has only replicated "cruel and inhuman conditions"...

Environment: Sahel region crippled by torrential rains and deadly floods

Environment: Sahel region crippled by torrential rains and deadly floods

Oct 22, 2022

Flooding caused by torrential rain in Niger has left 195 people dead and affected more than 322,000, an official toll...

Migration: Three-year old girl from Tunisia reaches Italy on migrant boat, without parents

Migration: Three-year old girl from Tunisia reaches Italy on migrant boat, without parents

Oct 21, 2022

A Tunisian toddler aged just three has reached Italy aboard a boat with other irregular migrants, but without her...

Sahel: 50 civilians killed in anti-junta protests in Chad

Oct 21, 2022

Djimet Wiche: Tensions eased in Chad on Friday following a day of unprecedented violence at protests that left around...

Tunisia: Hundreds of migrants intercepted in Tunisia, others arrested for human smuggling

Oct 21, 2022

Tunisian authorities said on Friday they had intercepted more than 800 people making clandestine attempts to reach...

Tunisian bakers strike over unpaid subsidies

Oct 19, 2022

Thousands of Tunisian bakers staged a strike Wednesday to demand that the state pay up overdue subsidies, but...

Tunisia: Bodies of eight migrants found off Zarzis

Oct 10, 2022

The bodies of eight migrants, thought to be Tunisians missing for two weeks, were recovered Monday off the coast of...

Saudi Arabia jails Egyptian men for attempt to organize remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war

Oct 10, 2022

A Saudi judge on Monday sentenced 10 Egyptian men for up to 18 years for having tried to organise a remembrance event...

Egypt replants mangrove ‘treasure’ to fight climate change impacts

Egypt replants mangrove ‘treasure’ to fight climate change impacts

Oct 7, 2022

By Bahira Amin: On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to...

US pressured to use its influence to advance human rights in the Arab world

US pressured to use its influence to advance human rights in the Arab world

Oct 7, 2022

By Inès Bel Aiba: Relatives of imprisoned or recently released activists in the Middle East, including in Egypt and...

Algeria wants lesser status for French language in favor of English

Algeria wants lesser status for French language in favor of English

Oct 7, 2022

By Abdellah Cheballah: Algerian primary schools have scrambled to introduce English lessons, in a move critics say was...

Morocco triples migrants’ jail terms over border storming

Morocco triples migrants’ jail terms over border storming

Oct 7, 2022

A Moroccan appeals court more than tripled to three years prison sentences against 18 African migrants over the deadly...

Environment: Rights and environmental groups say Egypt is not fit to host major climate summit

Environment: Rights and environmental groups say Egypt is not fit to host major climate summit

Oct 6, 2022

A month before Egypt hosts the UN climate change conference, Cairo is finalising the list of world leaders coming as...

Sahel: Record death toll from floods in Niger

Sahel: Record death toll from floods in Niger

Oct 6, 2022

Flooding caused by heavy rains in the West African state of Niger has claimed nearly 200 lives and affected more than...

Moroccans protest “humiliating” visa issuance policy at Rabat EU’s office

Oct 4, 2022

Dozens of Moroccans demonstrated outside the European Union's office in Rabat on Tuesday in protest at "racist" and...

Moroccan nomads’ way of life threatened by climate change

Moroccan nomads’ way of life threatened by climate change

Oct 4, 2022

By Kaouthar Oudrhiri In the blistering desert of Morocco, the country's last Berber nomads, the Amazigh, say their...

Sahel: Russian plane to be delivered to Mali crashes near Gao, pilot killed

Oct 4, 2022

A Russian pilot died Tuesday when a plane that Russia had recently delivered to Mali's armed forces crashed near the...

Sahel: Herder-farmer violence claims dozen lives in Chad’s central region

Oct 2, 2022

Eleven people were killed in fighting between herders and farmers in central Chad on Friday, a local governor told AFP...

Morocco: Toxic alcohol kills 19 in Ksar El Kebir

Sep 29, 2022

At least 19 people have died and dozens of others were hospitalised after consuming toxic alcohol from a roadside...

Morocco: Death of a girl ignites debate over abortion rights in Morocco

Sep 28, 2022

Dozens of feminist activists demonstrated Wednesday in Morocco's capital, calling for legalised abortions after a...

Algeria orders charity group Caritas to cease after 60 years of operations

Sep 28, 2022

Algeria has ordered Catholic charity Caritas to cease its 60 years of operations in the North African country, a...

Tunisia: Hundreds of policemen protesting after colleagues were arrested for demanding right to unionize

Sep 28, 2022

More than 200 police officers protested in Tunisia's second city of Sfax on Wednesday to demand the release of eight...

Environment: Severe floods wreck havoc on West African agriculture

Sep 27, 2022

By Aminu Abubakar Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from...

Islam: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Sunni scholar with major influence on North Africa, dies at 96

Islam: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Sunni scholar with major influence on North Africa, dies at 96

Sep 26, 2022

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent Sunni scholar and spiritual leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement, has...

Tunisia: Mayor of Mornag arrested after municipal police seized scales of street vendor who committed suicide

Sep 26, 2022

Tunisian police on Monday arrested the mayor of a town where a fruit seller committed suicide after his scales were...

Moroccan man who fought against Russia expresses sympathy with Ukrainian people

Moroccan man who fought against Russia expresses sympathy with Ukrainian people

Sep 26, 2022

A Moroccan prisoner of war released as part of an exchange between Moscow and Kyiv said he wanted to draw attention to...

Morocco: Dozen undocumented Sudanese migrants get 3 years in Moroccan prison

Sep 24, 2022

A Moroccan appeals court has sentenced 12 Sudanese migrants to three years in jail over violence in the run-up to a...

Morocco punishes government critic Saida El Alami with an extra year in her two-year prison term

Sep 22, 2022

A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday extended by another year the prison sentence of an activist tried for...

Video: Inside sex tourism in Morocco

Video: Inside sex tourism in Morocco

Sep 21, 2022

France24's Reporters report on pedophiles and sex tourists in Morocco, where hundred of thousands are being sexually...

Egypt: As it prepares for major climate summit, Egypt criticized for “growing repression of dissent”

Sep 21, 2022

Egyptian authorities "have continued to stifle freedoms" in the year since launching a national human rights strategy,...

Sahel: More than 150 dead in Niger rainy season floods

Sep 19, 2022

Severe floods in Niger after months of heavy downpours have killed 159 people, authorities said Monday, marking one of...

Tunisia: President issues decree that punishes authors of “fake news” with up to 5 years in prison

Sep 19, 2022

Tunisia's President Kais Saied issued a decree Friday that punishes the dissemination of "fake news" with up to five...

Migrations: Number of Tunisians fleeing their country to Italy up 11% this year

Sep 14, 2022

More than 13,000 clandestine Tunisian migrants have reached Italy by sea since the start of the year, almost a fifth...

Sahel: 50 migrants rescued in Niger desert

Sep 14, 2022

A total of 50 West African migrants, including women and children, were rescued in the desert in northern Niger near...

Israel and Morocco face public relations problem in Morocco after Israeli envoy recalled over sex abuse allegations

Sep 11, 2022

Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside Morocco's parliament Friday against the kingdom's...

Tunisia: Under public pressure, Tunisian government releases journalist on bail

Sep 11, 2022

Journalist Ghassen Ben Khlifa free on bail A Tunisian journalist and activist was released on bail Sunday, five days...

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