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Introduction by Arezki Daoud: For years, several analysts made dire predictions about where the Sahel was headed. Insurgencies, political turmoil, environmental disaster and humanitarian crises were among the series of problems forecast by experts. Today, all these...

Algeria police arrest 36 after 'arsonist' lynching Algerian police said Sunday they had arrested 36 people including three women after the lynching of a man suspected of having started one of the country's deadly forest fires. Blazes spurred by a blistering heatwave...

By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi to six years in jail on charges of espionage and rape, stirring condemnation from rights groups.  Radi's trial opened in June last year, just days after rights...