North Africa
US builds regional drone base in Niger
The US is investing at least $50 million in a military air base in Niger that will be capable of deploying drones to police the greater Sahara and Sahel regions.
Tag: North Africa
North Africa
Libya: against imperial retrospectivity
The glee with which "anti-war" voices have greeted the British parliament's critical report on the Libya intervention betrays unseemly schadenfreude over the post-Qaddafi chaos.
North Africa
Libya: rival governments clash over oil ports
Forces loyal to Libya's eastern government launched an attack on three ports held by Petroleum Facilities Guard troops, loyal to the UN-recognized Tripoli government.
North Africa
Algeria: five years for ‘insulting prophet’ online
An Algerian appeals court upheld the conviction of Slimane Bouhafs, accused of slandering the Prophet Muhammed in a Facebook post and now facing five years in prison.
North Africa
Algeria to build security wall on Libyan border
Algeria announced that it will join Tunisia in building a separation barrier along its border with Libya, in an effort to bar infiltration by ISIS militants and arms traffickers.
North Africa
Mauritania: detained anti-slavery activists tortured
Lawyers for 13 activists with the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement on trial in Mauritania said they have been tortured in detention.
North Africa
Pentagon admits: US troops fight in Libya
US special operations troops are for the first time directly supporting local forces battling ISIS in their key Libyan stronghold of Sirte, the Washington Post reports.
North Africa
Libya: US warplanes join battle for Sirte
US warplanes launched a new round of air-strikes against ISIS targets in the Libyan city of Sirte—the first such strikes carried out in support of local ground forces.
North Africa
Libya: death squad terror in Benghazi
The mutilated bodies of 14 civilians, including a local imam, were found in a landfill in a Benghazi district controlled by renegade Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar.
North Africa
Amnesty: migrants face ‘horrifying’ abuses in Libya
Amnesty International is demanding international action to address "horrifying" abuses of refugees and migrants in Libya at the hands of both traffickers and authorities.
North Africa
Libya: Misrata militia force battles ISIS at Sirte
An alliance of militias from the city of Misrata—nominally aligned with Libya's UN-backed government—are battling ISIS for control of Sirte port, the group's major stronghold.
North Africa
Media confusion on passing of Polisario leader
The passing of Mohammed Abdelaziz, leader of Western Sahara's Polisario Front, occasioned confusion in media coverage as to the difference between Arabs and Berbers.