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In the Media: Pressure grows on Moroccan leaders over conflict in the Middle East
US World & News Report discusses the public pressure and protests in Morocco and other Arab nations in response to...
Egypt opens Rafah Border, to allow safe passage to foreign nationals
Egypt will help evacuate "about 7,000" foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign...
Algeria wants lesser status for French language in favor of English
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday extended by another year the prison sentence of an activist tried for...
Video: Inside sex tourism in Morocco
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
Journalist Ghassen Ben Khlifa free on bail A Tunisian journalist and activist was released on bail Sunday, five days...
Tunisia: Cash-strapped Tunisia faces rationing and food shortages
By Habib Haj Salem Cash-strapped Tunisia is facing a dearth of imported foodstuffs from dairy products to coffee,...
Egypt: Mada Masr journalists facing legal troubles for allegedly “spreading false information”
The editor-in-chief and three journalists from independent Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr were interrogated by...
Algeria deports hundreds of migrants from Niger
More than 800 migrants expelled this week by Algeria have reached the northern Niger town of Agadez, local authorities...
Sahel: As sanctions bite, regime in Mali pledges orderly return to civilian rule
Mali on Tuesday urged African organisations to lift the last sanctions they had imposed after the state underwent two...
Tunisia: Customs agents kill suspected cigarette smuggler as social tensions grow
Tunisian prosecutors opened an investigation on Thursday into the death of a young suspected cigarette smuggler who...
Tunisia: Three migrants drown off Gabes coast
Three irregular migrants drowned off Tunisia's coast after their Europe-bound boat bound sank, authorities in the...
Egypt: Case of monkeypox confirmed in Egypt
Egypt has recorded its first case of the monkeypox virus, in a man who travelled regularly to Europe, the country's...
Egypt: Nile islanders face eviction to make way for Egypt’s latest grand plan
By Sofiane Alsaar Residents of a Nile island in greater Cairo woke up in recent weeks to find officials taking...
Sahel: Intense violence in Mali sends thousands fleeing
Tens of thousands of people, many of them children, have fled to a town in northeastern Mali after fighting erupted in...
Libya: Egyptian migrants dead and missing after boat sank off the coast Tolmeta
Five migrants died and 16 went missing after their boat sank off the coast of eastern Libya while attempting to reach...
Sahel: Floods wrecking havoc on the country of Niger
Powerful rains that have swept the arid state of Niger since June have left 75 dead and affected 108,000 people, the...
Sahel: Mali bans hookah smoking
"Shisha-abana," exclaims Bilal, a grocer in Mali's capital Bamako, in the national language Bambara: "Shisha is...
Migrations: Thousands of young Tunisians migrated to Italy this year
More than 2,000 Tunisian youngsters this year have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing from the North African...
Burkina Faso: Ethnic Fulanis fear violence will escalate against them
By Armel Baily Jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso have inflamed accusations against the Fulani community, sparking...