The toll of the fires ravaging northern Algeria, especially Kabylie, continues to grow heavier. At least 42 people, including 17 civilians and 25 soldiers, have lost their lives due to asphyxiation after fires ravaged vast areas of the Kabylie region, where an independence movement is growing. The fires, which started Monday evening, killed 17 civilians, […]
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National human rights council deplores slander campaign against rape victims
The National human rights council (CNDH) issued a report on the trial of two journalists Omar Radi and Soulaimane Raisouni in which it deplored the slander campaign that targeted the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs suffered from an “ardent defamation campaign of an unprecedented scale,” said the council, adding that fame or profession were not at stake […]
Sahraoui Human Rights Watchdog denounces attack on a family in Rabbouni camp in Tindouf
The Sahraoui Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEDH) has issued an official press release denouncing the “harsh repression suffered” by the Maichan family in front of the premises of the General Secretariat of the Polisario Front in the refugee camp of Rabbouni, in Algeria. ASADEDH exposes the alleged abuses committed by the […]
Global Data: Morocco’s economy fastest growing in Africa in 2021
Morocco tops the list of the five fastest-growing economies in Africa in 2021, Global Data, an international consulting and data analysis firm, said Monday in its latest report. Global Data expects the Kingdom to record a 5.19% growth rate, i.e. the highest rate on the continent in 2021. With this predicted GDP growth […]
Sudan plans to buy electricity from Ethiopia
Sudan, which has a large electricity deficit, wants to obtain supplies from Ethiopia, which is completing the construction of the GERD, the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Despite the conflict between Egypt and Sudan on the one hand, and Ethiopia on the other, over the distribution of the waters of the Nile, it seems that Addis […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Former President Laurent Gbagbo proposes creation of a new party
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, founder of the divided Ivorian People’s Front (FPI), proposed on Monday the creation of a new political party, according to a FPI statement issued after a meeting of its leadership. Mr. Gbagbo denounced during this meeting “the behavior” of his former Prime Minister, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, president of the so-called […]
Russian security personnel to protect Russian tourists at sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada Airports
Russian security forces have been dispatched to sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada Airports in Egypt as direct flights from Moscow and two resort destinations in the Sinai resume. EgyptAir flight MS724 took off from Moscow with 300 people on board and landed in Hurghada without incident, the airline said. Russia last month said direct flights between […]
AfDB highlights success of Moroccan Green Plan
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has highlighted, in a research study, the key factors of the success of the Moroccan Green Plan (PVM) and the lessons to be drawn from this strategy. These key factors include the institutional environment and legal reforms that have attracted the private sector, as well as the experience of […]
Montreal-based Alithya expands in Morocco to bolster expertise of its Digital Solutions Center
Alithya announced last week the opening of a subsidiary office in Tangier, Morocco, to leverage the North African country’s rich IT talent pool in order to bolster the expertise of its teams, and help advance the innovative work of Alithya’s global Digital Solutions Center that already comprises over 650 highly skilled professionals. As the […]
Tunisia: Members of Mechichi’s cabinet banned from leaving country
Former cabinet members of sacked Prime Minster Hichem Mechichi are at the target of a travel ban, the ministry of Justice has said amid ongoing sweeping changes carried out by President Kais Saied. Mohsen Daly, spokesman of Tunis court of first instance told local Shem FM, the move comes amid corruption and power abuse allegations. […]









