Communications were severed Tuesday to the flood-hit Libyan city of Derna and journalists were asked to leave, a day...
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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...
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...
Tunisia: Worsening economy risks destabilizing Tunisia
Tens of thousands of Tunisians have lost their jobs in a worsening economic crisis exacerbated by efforts to stem...
Sahel: Mali braces for potential release of hostages by Jihadis
[Photo of French hostage Sophie Petronin] - A second batch of jihadists has been freed in Mali, sources said Tuesday,...
Egypt arrests journalist Basma Mostafa just for reporting on anti-Sisi protests
6 October Update Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the...
Algeria intensifies judicial harassment of Hirak activists
Since the sentencing of journalist Khaled Drareni and the re-arrest of Mohamed Laalami, several political activists...
Algeria: Former cop who joined anti-regime protests sent to prison
A former Algerian policeman who joined the country's protest movement was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail,...
Mali: Civilian killed by French forces near Gao
Paris, Sept 1, 2020 - French anti-jihadist troops in Mali killed a civilian Tuesday and injured two others after a bus...
Sahel: Communal clashes claim several lives in southern Chad
At least ten people have been killed in fresh fighting between nomadic herders and farmers in southern Chad, a local...