The Wagner Group is wracking havoc in northern Mali, with actions that hint on ongoing efforts to depopulate the...
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Libya: Protesters force closure of El Sharara oil field over local economics
The North Africa Journal - Protestors seeking social and economic development for the Fezzan region, located in the...
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...
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,...
Algeria: Human rights groups demand release of 23 political prisoners on hunger strike
Eight Algerian human rights groups warned on Thursday that 23 detained people on hunger strike could die, and called...
Algeria: Labor unrest intensifies as general prices rise. Country’s outlook compromised
Stress in he Algerian labor market has been intensifying in the face of a dormant government. Government action in...
Morocco: Victim of sexual assault during protest, Nezha Majdi gets jailed instead
A Moroccan teacher and 19 peers have been charged with "outrage" against security forces after she accused the latter...
Algeria: Political prisoners launch hunger strike
Twenty-three people detained after taking part in a protest march in the Algerian capital last week have gone on...
Algeria: 15-year-old boy accuses police of sex abuse
Algerian police said Sunday they had launched an investigation after videos on social media claiming officers sexually...
Mali: Remains of murdered Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockli to return to her family
The remains of a Swiss missionary taken hostage and killed by Islamists in Mali have been identified and will be...
Algeria: Journalist Abdelhakim Setouane gets six months in prison
A court in Algeria's capital Monday sentenced journalist Abdelhakim Setouane to six months in jail for defamation of a...
Algeria: Hirak launches fifth week of anti-regime protest
Pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in Algeria Friday, with authorities making arrests in the capital and...
Algeria: Journalist Drareni heads back to court after Supreme Court orders retrial
By Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret - Prominent journalist Khaled Drareni, a symbol of the struggle for a free...
Libya’s media professionals face censorship, intimidation and threats
By Hamza Mekouar - A decade after the fall of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi and the end of his regime's stranglehold...
Tunisian youth in permanent fear of repression
By Caroline Nelly Perrot - Hamza Nasri, a young Tunisian activist, hit the streets as part of anti-government protests...
Tunisia counts its losses from the Jasmine Revolution
Tunisia's government has finally given an official toll of 129 dead and 634 injured in its 2011 revolution, in what an...
Algeria expels Moroccan farmers from its territory, courtesy Western Sahara crisis
NAJ | 19 March 2021: The Algerian authorities have issued an ultimatum to Moroccan farmers working of the Laaroda...
Egypt considers critics and political opponents as terrorists, world starting to push back
By Nina Larson - Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention...
Tunisia: Uproar in Tunisia over arrest of LGBT campaigner Rania Amdouni
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Tunisian capital Saturday to demand the release of a gay rights and...
Algeria: Police unleash violence on population in Ouargla after blogger sentenced to seven years in prison
Unrest broke out late Sunday in a southern Algerian town after a blogger and activist was handed a seven-year jail...
Algeria says it released 59 political prisoners but continues to unleash violence on peaceful protesters
Algerian police and biased judicial system still on the hunt The presidential pardon has not stopped the security...
Morocco: Protests in northern Morocco over social and economic despair
The Moroccan authorities dispatched police reinforcement to the northern city of Fnideq, where protests have erupted...
Algeria: Freed political prisoner alleges practice of torture
The public prosecutor at a court in Algiers ordered an inquiry Sunday after a student alleged security forces had...
Tunisia: Death of protester in Sousse reignites unrest as PM proposes new cabinet
Man hit by teargas canister in Sousse dies Protesters clashed with police in the central Tunisian town of Sbeitla on...
Morocco’s abusive use of preventative detention
Morocco's detention of thousands of suspects awaiting judicial proceedings has sparked a heated debate in the North...
Tunisia: Prime Minister recognizes “legitimate” anger of protesters but unrest continues
Young Tunisians clashed with security forces overnight and protest organisers called for anti-government rallies...
Chad: Deadly communal clashes in Salamat
At least 11 people have been killed in the latest fighting between farmers and nomadic herders in the southeast of...
Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
A supporter of Algeria's Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail Monday for satirical social media...
Libya: The ordeal of Libya’s civil war amputees
For Radwan Jibril, wounded in a bastion of Libya's 2011 revolution, losing his leg became "inevitable" and he had a...
Morocco arrests rights activist and historian Maati Monjib
Morocco on Tuesday arrested historian and human rights activist Maati Monjib after an investigation into alleged money...
Algeria and Morocco continue to repress journalists and rights activists
Algerian regime wants to punish activist Amira Bouraoui Algerian prosecutors have requested a tougher two-year jail...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in...
Sahel: Several killed in ethnic violence in Chad’s Kabbia region
At least 22 people have been killed in southern Chad in the latest instance of deadly ethnic violence between nomadic...
Podcast: Tunisia faces a chaotic situation, as economic woes could derail political progress
Transcript Tunisia is a boiling cauldron. It is certain that the Covid-19 epidemic is having a drastic...
Egypt: Man tries to sets himself alight during anti-government protest
An Egyptian man set himself alight in central Cairo in an anti-government protest on Thursday, but was stopped before...
Tunisia arrests police chief of town rocked by unrest over police brutality, now it needs serious reforms
Tunisia announced Wednesday the arrest of a municipal police chief after protests in an impoverished town sparked by...