North Africa

After deadly shooting, migrants in Libya just want to leave

Tripoli – After escaping, with hundreds of others, from an overcrowded Libyan detention centre where guards shot dead six migrants,... Read more

10 Oct, 2021

Tripoli – Guards shot dead six migrants at an overcrowded Tripoli detention facility on Friday, the International Organisation for... Read more

9 Oct, 2021

Rabat – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI urged the country’s new parliament on Friday to defend the country’s sovereignty and “stand... Read more

9 Oct, 2021

Tripoli – Preparations are almost finished for polls in war-torn Libya, the head of the electoral commission says, despite... Read more

9 Oct, 2021

Johannesburg – Riyad Mahrez celebrated being included on Friday among 30 Ballon d’Or nominees by scoring twice as he... Read more

9 Oct, 2021

Rabat – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Thursday named a new government led by Aziz Akhannouch, a billionaire tycoon... Read more

8 Oct, 2021

Algiers – Algeria, the main backer of Western Sahara’s Polisario Front independence movement, called on Morocco on Thursday to... Read more

7 Oct, 2021

Bamako – Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has told France to “decolonise” its history, in the latest verbal broadside between... Read more

7 Oct, 2021

Johannesburg – Morocco rose to the top of their African World Cup qualifying group on Wednesday with a 5-0 thrashing... Read more

7 Oct, 2021

Tripoli – The bodies of 17 migrants have been found washed up on a Libyan beach after their boat... Read more

7 Oct, 2021