By Bahira Amin: Zeinab was fleeing war-torn Sudan's capital to seek safety when she found herself pinned to the...
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Sahel: Humanitarian crisis unfolding along Chad’s border with Sudan with influx of new refugees
The UN said Thursday more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees had fled to neighbouring Chad since the conflict in Sudan...
Egypt: Archaeologists find human and animal embalming workshops in ancient Egyptian capital city Memphis
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, discovered in...
International: Turkey angers Europe over drilling plan off Cyprus
Brussels, May 13, 2019 (AFP) - The EU on Monday warned Turkey not to press ahead with exploratory drilling for oil and...
Egypt: New app tests streaming business in Egypt, challenges old media
Cairo, May 10, 2019 - By Aziz EL MASSASSI - Egypt's first video-streaming app launched this month just in time for the...
Moroccan firms increase trade and investment focus on Africa ($)
Moroccan businesses have been busy working to strengthen their position in the West African market. Among them is the...
Energy: Total wants to acquire Anadarko’s Algerian assets ($)
French oil group Total announced this Sunday the signing of an agreement with the American Occidental Petroleum to...
Podcast: North Africa stability brief. Week ending 28 April 2019
MEA Risk's Arezki Daoud reviews the major political and security highlights that took place in North Africa for the...
Algeria: Defense chief overshadows Interim President, takes center-stage in determining country’s future ($)
The political crisis in Algeria intensified this week with the judiciary taking exceptional steps to investigate and...
Libya: Being immigrant in a war zone
Tripoli, April 25, 2019 - Sudanese migrants who fled fighting and turmoil in Darfur are facing war once again, caught...
Algeria: And the witch-hunt continues
The speed in which a number of former and current officials and business tycoons have been implicated into shady...
Libya: France’s Libyan dillema
Tripoli, April 22, 2019 - Libya's unity government has bitterly criticised France for its stand in the offensive on...
Algeria: The collapsing central state and the inevitable fall of the house of cards
By Arezki Daoud - 18 April 2019: A remnant of the Bouteflika regime, Tayeb Belaiz had the decency this week to resign...
Libya: How the Internet and new media are worsening the crisis in Libya
Tripoli, April 18, 2019 - On Libya's front lines, fighters often hold a gun in one hand and a smartphone in the other,...
Algeria: The Algiers mosque, symbol of the misguided vision of a leader that destroyed his country
Algiers, April 15, 2019 - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika may be gone, but his unfinished Great Mosque of Algiers looms...
Cheering pro-democracy movements or supporting autocratic rulers: a reticent America
Washington, April 12, 2019 - The United States initially cheered on the Arab Spring but as fresh popular uprisings...
Algerians find new interest in law and their constitution
Algiers, April 12, 2019 - By Claire Doyen - Sitting in a living room transformed into a makeshift classroom, Algerians...
Algeria: Time is not on the Side of the Protest Movement
There is a clear stalemate in Algiers these days, although time is favoring the regime and those calling the shots in...
Libya crisis update – 11 April 2019
Tripoli, April 11, 2019 - By Rim Taher and Imed Lamloum - The UN chief warned Libya is on the brink of "a very...
Algeria: Growing unease with the role of the Generals in the Algerian transition
By Arezki Daoud - Tomorrow Friday, 5 April 2019, there will be rain in the morning in Algiers, but it will likely...
Libya: UN’s Antonio Guterres in hopeless Libya
Tripoli, April 3, 2019 (AFP) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Libya Wednesday ahead of a...
Algeria: Central Bank seeks to appease growing public fear over capital flight as political crisis persists
There has been growing public fear over regime operatives moving money from Algeria to foreign banks. Rumors have been...
Algeria: Media campaign against financial backers of Bouteflika: the Kouninef brothers
The North Africa Journal - 26 March 2019: The Kouninef brothers have been the focal point of several influential...
Algeria: Petroleum sector facing uncertainty as political crisis escalates
By Arezki Daoud - 21 March 2019: Echoing the positions of many of the foreign companies operating in Algeria, peaking...
Algeria: After major protests, all eyes on the regime
Algiers, March 16, 2019 - Tens of thousands of Algerian protesters have dismissed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's...
Turkey: Prez Erdogan attacks women for celebrating Women’s Day
Ankara, March 10, 2019 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused International Women's Day protesters...
Nigeria: Election violence forces vote suspension in Rivers state
Port Harcourt, Nigeria, March 10, 2019 - By Joel Olatunde Agoi - Nigeria's election authorities announced the...
Egyptian government likely using cyber-attacks against activists
March 6, 2019 - Amnesty International warned Wednesday that dozens of rights activists in Egypt have been put in...
Sahel: Growing concern over impact of climate change on the Sahel
Niamey, Feb 25, 2019 - Leaders of 17 countries on the rim of the Sahel began talks on Monday on a nearly $400-billion...
Opinion: Turbulent times in North Africa and Sahel
By Arezki Daoud: 22 February 2019 - North Africa remains confronted with so many sources of instability, while the...
Nigeria postpones presidential election for one week, rival parties accuse each other
Abuja, Feb 16, 2019 - Nigeria's electoral watchdog on Saturday postponed presidential and parliamentary elections for...
Agriculture: Plague wreaks havoc on Algeria’s small ruminants ($)
Small ruminants breeders in Algeria are in distress, with the continued spread of the small ruminant plague, as the...
Urban Issues: The stray dogs and wild boars of North African cities
Opinion by Arezki Daoud - January 29, 2019: There could be as many as 15 million stray dogs roaming the streets of...
Tunisia: Inheritance reform in Tunisia likely to boost gender equality
Jendouba, Tunisia, Jan 25, 2019 - Tunisian divorcee Latifa counts herself lucky -- she has a modest home that boasts a...
Libya: Violence and political deadlock wreck havoc on the population
Al-Gawalesh, Libya, Jan 27, 2019 - "Our town has been looted, homes wrecked and olive trees torched," Moftah Mohammed...
Energy: Algeria cuts oil production by 24K barrels a day
The North Africa Journal - 14 January 2019: Algeria has cut oil production between 24,000 and 25,000 barrels per day...
Tunisia braces for labor strike
Tunis, Jan 14, 2019 - Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union on Monday called for a strike as the country, grappling with...
Egypt: Al-Azhar leaders lost their minds that even top conservative cleric asked them to think a little
They lost the trust of the population and now some Egyptian leaders appear to just have lost their minds. One of them,...
Egypt: Six suspected militants killed by police in Sohag
Cairo, Jan 12, 2019 (AFP) - Egyptian police killed six suspected Islamist militants in a shootout early Saturday in...
Morocco complains to UN of Western Sahara truce violations
United Nations, United States, Jan 11, 2019 (AFP) - Morocco has accused Polisario Front fighters in Western Sahara of...
Libya issues arrest warrants against attackers of oil facilities ($)
The North Africa Journal: 9 January 2019: The Libyan authorities have issued 37 arrest warrants against Libyans,...
Nigeria: Boko Haram intensifies its attacks on Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, Jan 5, 2019 (AFP) - Nigeria's Islamic State West Africa Province, a faction of Boko Haram affiliated to...
Libya in 2019: Podcast
In mid-December 2018, Arezki Daoud and Alessandro Bruno discussed the latest about Libya and what could happen in...