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Funny news this week from Tunisia where the Presidency of the Republic announced the dismissal of two governors. They are Mondher Sik-Ali of...

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Mali junta ends Algiers Agreement

The ruling junta in Mali announced, on Thursday 25 January, the "end, with immediate effect", of the Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with the pro-autonomy and independence groups based in the north of the country. Long considered essential for stabilizing the country, the agreement was primarily engineered by Algeria, but with such announcement, the basics elements of peace in the region have...

Trade: Israel-Morocco trade takes a hit amid extreme instability in the Middle East

Last year, Morocco and Israel have had a strong run on their bilateral trade, as the two countries put into effect the Abraham Accords. Almost all the Moroccan media reporting on the topic during 2023, underscored the exponential growth of Morocco-Israel trade, with headlines citing growth rates topping 150%. Until the war in Gaza began, triggering a reversal of fortunes that saw trade...

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Sahel: The demise of the ancient city of Timbuktu

When jihadists in Mali announced they would blockade the ancient city of Timbuktu, residents thought it was just another intimidation tactic. But a month and a half later, the tens of thousands of inhabitants remain almost completely cut off from the world with the...

Libya: Ancient Greco-Roman city of Cyrene faces risk of collapse

Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country's premier ancient sites, threatening its UNESCO-listed monuments with collapse, a recent visitor and a leading archaeologist said. The immediate damage to the monuments of...

Tunisian island of Djerba gets added to UNESCO World Heritage list

UNESCO announced Monday it was adding the Tunisian resort island of Djerba to its list of World Heritage Sites because of its ancient ruins, whitewashed villages, mosques, churches and synagogues. The United Nations cultural organisation took the decision in Saudi...

Libya: What is the storm that destroyed NE Libya? Meet Daniel

The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed a "medicane", a rare but destructive weather phenomenon that scientists believe will intensify in a warming world. The term is an amalgamation of the words Mediterranean and hurricane....

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Algeria: Opposition leader Zoubida Assoul announces presidential bid

Algerian opposition and pro-democracy lawyer Zoubida Assoul has announced that she will run for the presidential election scheduled in December 2024, marking the beginning of the unofficial election campaign. Assoul is the President of the Union for Change and Progress (UCP). She made the announcement at a press briefing on Friday, 1 March at her party’s headquarters in Algiers. Assoul spoke at...

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Brief: Tunisia: The Lazy Governors

Funny news this week from Tunisia where the Presidency of the Republic announced the dismissal of two governors. They are Mondher Sik-Ali of...

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Podcast: Sahel and North Africa week in review 7 Jan 2023

Greetings to our second episode of Week in Review and a quick summary of what we are tracking in the Sahel and in North Africa. Today is Saturday, the 7th of January 2023. This past week was somewhat subdued in the region largely due to the year-end holiday season and...

Covid-19: First case of Omicron in Tunisia comes from Turkey

Tunisia recorded its first confirmed case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a Congolese man who arrived from Istanbul, the health minister said Friday. Ali Mrabet said the 23-year-old man tested positive and all fellow travellers on his flight from Turkey...

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US-Niger relations face uncertainty, with Niamey’s pivot to Russia

The news:  The visit a few days ago of a US government delegation to Niamey, the capital of Niger, did not go down well with the ruling junta there. Clearly as the junta is paving the way for the Russian military to enter Niger and expand their presence in the Sahel, the Americans are starting to lose patience and they may have shown their frustration in this latest interaction with the Junta. ...

Mali junta ends Algiers Agreement

The ruling junta in Mali announced, on Thursday 25 January, the "end, with immediate effect", of the Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with the...

SOCIAL, LABOR & THE ENVIRONMENT

Drought is pushing North African economies to the brink and to social unrest

Drought is wreaking havoc on North Africa’s water supply and on its agriculture. All countries in the region are facing a dangerous water outlook. For example, cash-strapped Tunisia is expected to import almost all its cereal needs. During his visit to Tunis at the end of December and taking advantage of a weakened country, Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov said his country was “ready” to...

BUSINESS & THE ECONOMY

Agriculture: Spanish farmers say Moroccan strawberries carry Hepatitis A, as Morocco surpasses Spain as tomato supplier to EU

Agriculture is the theater of another kind of war where there are winners and losers. Worth billions of dollars, the EU agricultural market is seeing intensifying competition, with local farmers sometime resorting to violence to destroy competing produce coming from other countries, even from within the EU. European farmers have also been putting intense pressure on their governments and...

INTERNATIONAL

Nigerian army drone hits village in Kaduna State, kills civilians

By Aminu Abubakar with Laurie Churchman in Abuja: An army drone strike accidentally hit a village in northwestern Nigeria killing dozens of civilians celebrating a Muslim festival, local authorities, the military and residents said on Monday. Nigeria's armed forces often rely on air strikes in their battle against so-called bandit militias in the northwest and northeast of the country where...

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