North Africa

[RSF] Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call for the release of Solafa Magdy, a detained Egyptian journalist who is being subjected to psychological pressure during interrogation and repeatedly harassed by prison staff, and whose health has worsened significantly. She needs urgent medical treatment that is unavailable in prison, RSF …

[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers — The first batch, composed of 50,000 doses of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine AstraZeneca, arrived in the early afternoon of Monday in the Houari-Boumediene International Airport (Algiers).Read More

[African Union] The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat commends the United Nations-facilitated Libyan Dialogue Forum (LPDF) and the Libyan people as LPDF delegates begin to vote on 1-5 February 2021 in Geneva, for candidates to serve in a new interim government.Read More

[MAP] Rabat — Morocco’s official reserve assets amounted to 309.6 billion dirhams until January 22, 2021, up by 23.6% compared to the same period in 2020, Morocco’s central bank (Bank Al-Maghrib) has said.Read More

[MAP] Rabat — The Higher Council of the Judiciary has expressed its total rejection of all the allegations and untruths spread about the judgment pronounced by the court of first instance of Rabat against the accused Maati Monjib, which dishonestly aim at politicizing a case related to common law and …

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia — The Mahdia governorate recorded two more deaths due to COVID-19. The deceased are an 83-year-old man from Mahdia and a 79-year old woman from Ksour Essef.Read More

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia — A one more COVID-19 fatality and 8 further infections were reported in the Jendouba governorate.Read More

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia — Three more COVID-19 patients passed away in the Ben Arous governorate, taking the toll to 321 since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to the Local Committee to Combat Coronavirus in Ben Arous.Read More

[CAF] Besides the host country, Algeria will be the second representative of the North African zone (UNAF) in the Total U-17 Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2021.Read More

[Chatham House] While the Arab Spring is not over, the moment of 2011 is.Read More