The Wagner Group is wracking havoc in northern Mali, with actions that hint on ongoing efforts to depopulate the...
Unrest Bound
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
Sahel: Killed in Chad for demanding the rule of law
Libya: Military court in the east sentences 22 to death on bogus charges
Algerian regime launches frontal assault on civil society
Algeria: Paranoiac regime sees conspiracies everywhere
Algeria: Remembering Amazigh’s Black Spring
Sahel: Fighting between herdsmen and farmers rages in southeaster Chad
Algeria: Human rights groups demand release of 23 political prisoners on hunger strike
Algeria: Labor unrest intensifies as general prices rise. Country’s outlook compromised
Morocco: Victim of sexual assault during protest, Nezha Majdi gets jailed instead
Algeria: Political prisoners launch hunger strike
Algeria: 15-year-old boy accuses police of sex abuse
Mali: Remains of murdered Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockli to return to her family
Algeria: Journalist Abdelhakim Setouane gets six months in prison
Algeria: Hirak launches fifth week of anti-regime protest
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
Tunisian youth in permanent fear of repression
Tunisia counts its losses from the Jasmine Revolution
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
Morocco’s abusive use of preventative detention
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
Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
Libya: The ordeal of Libya’s civil war amputees
Morocco arrests rights activist and historian Maati Monjib
Algeria and Morocco continue to repress journalists and rights activists
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
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...
