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Algeria escalates war on memory with sentence against novelist Kamal Daoud

Algerian authorities have sentenced French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud to three years in prison in absentia and fined him €35,000, in a ruling critics say epitomizes the regime’s sustained effort to suppress debate about the country’s civil war. Daoud, who won the 2024 Prix Goncourt for his novel Houris, announced the verdict on his X […]

Egyptian Tourism Bets on Campaigns to Boost Sector

Egyptian tourism professionals pin high hopes on campaigns to revitalize the sector which has been badly hit by repeated terror attacks that scared off foreign tourists. In 2014, nearly 10 million tourists visited the North African country, bringing with them $ 7.5 billion in revenues against the 14.7 million tourists that visited Egypt in 2010, […]

Earthquake hit Western North Africa, including Morocco, & Southern Europe

An earthquake has hit on Friday night several countries in Western North Africa, including Morocco, Mauritania and Algeria and Southern Europe.   Residents of several Moroccan cities, from Rabat to Agadir, via Casablanca and Marrakech, felt the tremor at around 11.14pm on Friday night. Several inhabitants left their homes to gather in the streets.   […]