Egypt will help evacuate "about 7,000" foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign...
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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...
From spikes in food prices to canceled flights, Russia’s war on Ukraine is hitting Africa hard
By Patrick Markey and Joel Olatunde Agoi From airlines in Nigeria to shoppers in Malawi, Africans are feeling the...
Algeria wants to jail right activist Zaki Hannache over bogus charge of “apology for terrorism”
An Algerian court on Thursday charged rights activist Zaki Hannache of "praising terrorism" and spreading "false news"...
Egypt: Russians and Ukrainians tourists stranded in Egypt
Egypt said Thursday it would look after any Russian and Ukrainian tourists stranded in the country because of flight...
Morocco: Journalist Soulaimane Raissouni gets five years in prison
Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni was jailed Wednesday for five years after appealing his sentence for indecent...
Algeria’s harassment of journalists continues, prosecutors wants more prison time to journalist Drareni
Algerian prosecutors on Thursday called for harsher penalties against journalist and press freedom activist Khaled...
Tunisia: Sub-Saharan refugees decry violence against them, seek help to return home
Dozens of refugees from Sudan and sub-Saharan African countries protested in Tunisia on Monday, complaining of...
Sahel: Communal clashes leave 12 people dead in Moyen-Chari province, Chad
Twelve people have been killed in clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad, where ethnic friction over...
Podcast: Tunisia revisited- How the government neglects the inner regions
Tunisia Revisited: MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud reviews where Tunisia stands as of November 2021 in the areas of...
Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a dangerous landfill
By Aymen Jamli - [Watch video at bottom] As tear gas and protest cries filled the air in the Tunisian town of Agareb,...
Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a landfill
Clashes flared again on Thursday between security forces and residents of a Tunisian town protesting against the...
Tunisian regime uses military courts to repress civilians
A growing number of Tunisian civilians have faced trial before military courts since President Kais Saied's July power...
Morocco: Rights activist Maati Monjib to resume hunger strike
Moroccan historian and rights activist Maati Monjib said Wednesday he was again going on hunger strike to protest a...
Algeria: Regime’s war against civil society intensifies
A court in Algiers dissolved NGO and civil society organization Youth Action Rally (RAJ), causing uproar among...
Algeria: Attacks on journalists continue
(Photo: Journalists Mouloudj (left) and Bouras (right)): An Algerian journalist and rights activist was taken into...
Tunisia: The problem of arbitrary practices in Tunisia
The World Organisation Against Torture on Friday urged Tunisia's President Kais Saied -- who suspended the country's...
Libyan’s electricity crisis
By Hamza Mekouar: Walk down any commercial street in the Libyan capital Tripoli and the pavements will be lined with...
A destabilized region: Awful week in the Sahel
Introduction by Arezki Daoud: For years, several analysts made dire predictions about where the Sahel was headed....
Tunisia: Protests erupt in Tunisia against mediocre government
Thousands of Tunisians marched in several cities protesting against the ruling party Sunday, criticising what they...
Sahel: Insurgency is destabilizing Burkina Faso, with mass population displacement
Record numbers of people in Burkina Faso have become internally displaced or fled abroad as a result of jihadist...
Under pressure, Egypt releases from prison six activists
By Mona Salem Egypt on Sunday freed six activists including journalist Esraa Abdel-Fattah, a symbol of the 2011...
A secret trial in Morocco
A Moroccan judge on Tuesday took the trial of journalist and rights activist Omar Radi behind closed doors, a move his...
Algerian Sahara: Unemployment and poverty riots erupt around Algeria’s southern oil and gas hubs
There has been escalating unrest in several localities in the northeast Algerian Sahara. The oil hubs of Ouargla,...
Burkina Faso: Quarter million people forced to abandon their homes so far this year
More than 237,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes in the past six months in Burkina Faso, a country...
Egyptian law to punish state employees who show dissenting views
Egypt's parliament Monday authorised the dismissal of public workers listed as government opponents and "terrorists",...
Algerian regime jails pro-democracy figure Laalami for two years
An Algerian court on Sunday jailed for two years Chems Eddine Laalami, a leading figure from the pro-democracy Hirak...
Algeria arrests opposition figure Fethi Ghares
Algerian authorities arrested the head of an opposition party for allegedly insulting President Abdelmadjid Tebboune...
Morocco: Jailed journalist Soulaimane Raissouni in critical condition
A detained Moroccan journalist is "close to death" 76 days into a hunger strike, his family said as his trial resumed...
Migrant crisis: 3,000 mostly Moroccan migrants still inside Spain’s Ceuta
A month after more than 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Ceuta, around 3,000 of them are still...
Egypt: The bizarre sentencing in Egypt of TikTok influencers
An Egyptian court has sentenced two women TikTok influencers to six and 10 years in jail respectively for "human...
Tunisia: Clashes in Tunis over police brutality
Photo credit: @YassineGaidi Youths clashed with officers again Saturday evening, hours after a demonstration in the...
Morocco uses judicial harassment to punish journalists
Jailed Moroccan journalist tells judge: “I want to go back to die in prison." 11 June 2021: The trial of Moroccan...
Tunisia: Outrage over police beating of minor captured on video
A video of what seems to be officers in civilian clothes beating a naked minor has sparked outrage in Tunisia, two...
Algeria: Unable to govern, unpopular regime uses repression to stay in power
(Photo: Policemen in plain clothes assaulting an elderly man in Algiers) - The UN voiced alarm Tuesday at reports of...
Algeria: After attacking democracy activists and opposition parties, regime now targeting trade unions
(Photo: Algeria president Tebboune (left) and his Prime Minister Djerad) - Algeria's government warned trade unions...
Sahel: Killed in Chad for demanding the rule of law
By Amaury Hauchard - A printed sheet of paper bearing a photo of Adoussouma hung on the crumbling wall at the...
Libya: Military court in the east sentences 22 to death on bogus charges
Eastern Libyan military courts have sentenced at least 22 people to death and jailed hundreds more since 2018 in...
Algerian regime launches frontal assault on civil society
It’s hunting season against journalists and free thinkers Being a journalist or a whistleblower is a dangerous job in...
Algeria: Paranoiac regime sees conspiracies everywhere
Algerian security services said Tuesday they had arrested eight people linked to the Hirak pro-democracy protest...
Algeria: Remembering Amazigh’s Black Spring
By Abdellah Cheballa - Twenty years ago, an Algerian teenager's death in police custody in the heartland of the North...
Sahel: Fighting between herdsmen and farmers rages in southeaster Chad
Clashes between sedentary farmers and semi-nomadic herders in southeastern Chad have left many dead in recent days,...