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Middle East: Wounded children from war-torn Gaza airlifted to UAE
By Mumen KhatibB and Giuseppe Cacace: Clutching a blown-up surgical glove as a makeshift toy, a Palestinian child is...
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...
Egypt: Relief convoys in Egypt head towards Gaza border crossing
Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with...
Algeria: While pro-democracy Hirak movement represents no risk to regime, Algeria continues to hold people in prisons
A United Nations expert on Tuesday urged Algeria to pardon people convicted or detained over their involvement in the...
Libya: Incompetent eastern authorities tighten control on media, block communications access
Communications were severed Tuesday to the flood-hit Libyan city of Derna and journalists were asked to leave, a day...
Sahel: Sanctions imposed against Niger to trigger catastrophic humanitarian crisis
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the political crisis in Niger and the sanctions imposed against the coup regime...
Sahel: As political tensions persist, Niger population faces hardship
Floods this week have caused the death of 31 people in politically battered Niger, including eight following the...
Niger: Athletes from Niger struggle to perform in Kinshasa after coup
Nigerien participants in the Francophone Games, which have kicked off in DR Congo's capital, have been left struggling...
Morocco continues to use judicial harassment against journalists
By Ismail Bellaoualli and Philippe Agret: Morocco's top court has rejected the final appeals of two journalists, Omar...
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...
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...
Several killed in conflict between herders and farmers in south of Chad
Clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad have left at least 22 people dead, authorities said Wednesday...
Algeria passes law further curbing press freedom
Algeria's parliament on Thursday passed a law further restricting press freedom in the North African country by...
Tunisia: European Parliament lashes out at Tunisian president over his “authoritarian drift”
The European Parliament on Thursday decried Tunisian President Kais Saied's "authoritarian drift" and called for the...
Tunisia: President’s racist speech sparks violence against migrants
By Evelyne Aka, with Françoise Kadri in Tunis: Almost 300 people returned from Tunisia to Mali and Ivory Coast on...
Tunisia: Judicial harassment against former Parliamentary Speaker Rached Ghannouchi intensifies
Tunisia's former parliamentary speaker Rached Ghannouchi appeared in court Tuesday on new terror-related charges after...
Morocco: Appeals court reduces sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane but he is still in prison
A Moroccan appeals court halved the sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane, jailed for social media posts calling...
Algeria arrests analyst Raouf Farrah, keeps elderly mother of opposition figure under court supervision
The mother of prominent French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui has been released from custody but remains under court...
Egypt issues another death sentence for “terrorism”
An Egyptian court sentenced one man to death and 11 to life imprisonment after convicting them of joining a "terrorist...
Egypt keeps social media influencers in prison, along with 60,000 political prisoners
Egypt has extended the pre-trial detention of three TikTok comedians after their online sketch about a prison visit...
Tunisia: Opposition figure Seifeddine Makhlouf sentenced to prison by military court for “insulting police
Plainclothes security officers in Tunisia detained a prominent critic of President Kais Saied in the early hours of...
Sahel: Soldiers rescue women and babies abducted by suspected jihadists in N. Burkina Faso
By Armel Baily: Soldiers rescued a group of 62 women and four babies abducted by suspected jihadists last week in...
Algeria: Policeman kills boy during drug bust
An Algerian policeman shot a teenage boy who later died when a gang tried to stop officers during the latest in a...
Tunisia: President on the offensive to eliminate the opposition
The main coalition against Tunisian President Kais Saied said Tuesday his administration was using the judiciary to...
Tunisia electoral board sues media outlets for “attacking dignity of voters”
Tunisian rights groups on Tuesday accused the electoral authority of "threatening" press freedom, after it sued...
Sahel: Six arrested and massive protest in Mali over video deemed anti-Islamic
Thousands of demonstrators thronged Mali's capital Bamako on Friday to protest the publication of a video on social...
Algeria continues to attack journalists and free speech
Algerian court hands over death sentence to exiled journalist for publishing “fake” and “confidential” information...
Tunisia: Bodies of eight migrants found off Zarzis
The bodies of eight migrants, thought to be Tunisians missing for two weeks, were recovered Monday off the coast of...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Egypt: Family of jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah says he is on hunger strike, regime denies
Egypt's interior ministry said Thursday it has footage of jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah that "disproves" a report...
Western Sahara human rights defender Sultana Khaya released after 19 months of house arrest
Human rights defender Sultana Khaya arrived in southeastern Spain Friday where she will receive medical treatment for...
Sahel: The lawless northern Chad and deaths over gold
Around 100 dead in clashes between Chad gold miners Around 100 people have died in clashes between gold miners in...
Egypt: Regime pardons 11 political prisoners, but keeps 60,000 others in jail
A presidential pardon on Wednesday saw Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi released from jail after three...
Algeria: Pro-democracy activist El Hadi Lassouli faces danger in Algeria prison
The life of a prominent Algerian activist is in danger after he began his second hunger strike during 11 months in...
Algerian government targets its citizens abroad, bans those who call for democratic reform
Summary: The Algerian authorities have begun to process of banning from entering Algeria its nationals who reside...