A plan resurfacing in Algeria’s parliament would allow authorities to strip citizenship from Algerians who commit acts...
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Morocco’s New Election Law Sparks Free Speech Battle
Morocco’s government has just approved a controversial change to its election law—setting out steep new penalties for...
Tunisia: Pollution Uprising in Gabès Turning Into Sustained Protest Movement
MondAfrique: Gabès' fight against pollution has reached historic levels, turning into a sustained protest movement...
Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prison
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen...
Mali: Impasse in Bamako as opposition rejects junta-backed roadmap
Mali's popular opposition movement has rejected a charter for a transition government backed by the army officers who...
Libya: Head of eastern government resigns over public protests
Benghazi, Libya, Sept 14, 2020 - The head of Libya's parallel government installed in the country's east has handed in...
Mali: North and central Mali remain tense while Bamako struggles to recover from coup
Timbuktu, Mali, Sept 14, 2020 - Malian army lieutenant Abdoul Kadri leads a patrol through the bustling streets of the...
Libya talks: Some progress and more talks ahead
Delegates from rival Libyan administrations on Thursday agreed at talks in Morocco on criteria for appointments to...
Mali: Military junta wants to appoint its own president
Experts appointed by Mali's military junta on Friday proposed a two-year transitional government led by a president...
Algeria: Like all previous presidents, Tebboune wants his version of the constitution
Algeria's government has adopted draft constitutional revisions aimed at responding to the demands of the country's...
Libya: Tripoli-based government reinstates recently suspended Interior Minister
The interior minister in Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Accord was reinstated on Thursday after a...
Mali: Ousted president Keita suffers mini-stroke, admitted in hospital
Bamako, Sept 2, 2020 - Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who has not been seen in public since his...
Mali protest movement proposes 2-year transition to civilian rule
Bamako, Aug 30, 2020 - The protest coalition that campaigned against former Mali president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has...
Mali: Uncertainty looms about Mali’s political future
Bamako, Aug 31, 2020 - Conflict-riven Mali is at a crucial crossroads two weeks after a military junta took power in a...
Libya’s GNA fires Interior and Defense Ministers after violence against protesters
Tripoli, Aug 29, 2020 - The head of Libya's unity government on Saturday appointed a new defence minister and army...
The Algerian regime now sends poets to prison
The Algerian regime is gripped by fear that the anti-government Hirak movement reignites. Mass arrests have...
Mali crisis not getting better: ECOWAS wants return to civilian rule, junta wants to stay
Niamey, Aug 28, 2020 - West African countries on Friday insisted on a return to civilian rule in Mali, where rebel...
Mali: Ousted President returns home after being held by military junta
Bamako, Aug 27, 2020 - Mali's new military rulers said Thursday that former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was...
Tension continues to rise in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea with all parties flexing the muscles
Istanbul, Aug 27, 2020 - Turkey on Thursday extended its controversial Mediterranean gas exploration mission and...
Mali: Negotiators fail to reach agreement on civilian rule
Bamako - Talks between West African envoys and Mali's new military rulers on Monday failed to yield an agreement on...
Algerians called to vote again in November
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - Algeria will hold a promised referendum on a revised constitution on November 1, the office of...
Tunisia: New PM submits list of cabinet members to parliament
Tunis, Aug 25, 2020 - Tunisia's prime minister-designate on Tuesday unveiled the country's second government in six...
Algeria’s repressive courts sentence journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to prison on bogus charges
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, his lawyer told AFP, in...
Libya: Warlord Haftar not on board with ceasefire, wants war to continue
Benghazi, Libya, Aug 24, 2020 - A spokesman for eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has slammed a ceasefire...
Mali: Coup leaders insist on military rule over the coming years
Four Mali soldiers killed in bomb blast: military source Aug 22, 2020 - Four Malian soldiers were killed and one...
Mali: Ousted Malian president “looks tired but relaxed.”
Bamako, Aug 21, 2020 - The United Nations said Friday it had gained access to Mali's ousted president while rebel...
Breaking: Libyan rivals reach agreement on ceasefire and elections
Tripoli, Aug 21, 2020 - Libya's warring rival governments announced in separate statements Friday that they would...
Mali: While Mali people want their President out for incompetence, world leaders run to his rescue
Coup leaders in Mali faced a wave of international pressure on Wednesday, a day after they forced out a president...
Egypt: Sisi strengthens his powers with loyalists winning upper house seats
Cairo, Aug 19, 2020 - Egypt's electoral commission said Wednesday that candidates on an electoral list loyal to...
Libya: Patchwork of divided tribes complicate the Libyan crisis
As Egypt flexes its muscle with threats to intervene in Libya's civil war, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has...
Algeria: Birthplace of the Hirak movement, Kherrata experiences first post-confinement rally
We may have missed this story and reported as a minor event, and in fact, no national newspapers reported it, but...
Mali: The military is now in charge
Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 - Mali awoke on Wednesday to a new chapter in its troubled history after rebel military leaders...
Mali: President Boubacar Keita resigns and the people are cheering
Bamako, Aug 19, 2020 - Mali's president said he was resigning to avoid "bloodshed" early Wednesday, hours after his...
Sahel: The unfolding Malian crisis
Aug 18, 2020 - Mali has been gripped for months by a political crisis that has sparked the country's worst unrest in...
Sahel: Fears of a soldiers’ mutiny in Mali as political crisis lingers
Bamako, Aug 18, 2020 - Gunfire broke out at a key army base near Mali's capital Bamako on Tuesday, officials and...
Egypt: Another senior opposition figure dies in Egyptian prison
Cairo, Aug 13, 2020 - A senior leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood died Thursday in an Egyptian prison where he...
Algeria: Supporters of jailed journalist Drareni launch international appeal
Algiers, Aug 12, 2020 - Supporters of jailed Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni launched an appeal on Wednesday for...
Algeria’s outrageous justice system: jails some, releases others for the same offenses: signs of unstable regime
Algiers, Aug 11, 2020 - Supporters of jailed Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni on Tuesday demanded his release in an...
Mali’s new Constitutional Court president
Bamako, Aug 9, 2020 - Newly-appointed judges at Mali's Constitutional Court, which is at the centre of a political...
Mali braces for more political turmoil, as calls for protests build up
Mali's opposition vowed to stage nationwide protests Tuesday seeking embattled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's...
Mali president appoints new constitutional court chief in a bid to save his job
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita appointed nine judges to the Constitutional Court on Friday, by decree, as...
Algeria military establishment continues to undergo leadership purge
On Tuesday, 4 August, Algerian President Tebboune officially dismissed General Abderrahmane Arrar, the head of the...
Sahel: Government reshuffle in Mauritania
Nouakchott, Aug 6, 2020 - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani on Thursday carried out a government...