North Africa News

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Interior Minister Kamel Feki, said, on Friday in Palermo that irregular migration is an "inhuman" scourge which should be addressed according to "a realistic, comprehensive and multidimensional approach."

[Egypt Online] The Egyptian National Election Authority (NEA) has denied the occurrence of any violations, favouritism, or mistreatment of any individual at the notarization offices responsible for issuing endorsement forms for prospective candidates in the upcoming presidential elections.

[Islamic Relief] Although the flood waters have receded, tens of thousands of lives continue to be devastated by this month's floods in eastern Libya.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Egypt aims to increase the number of companies operating in Angola in the infrastructure sector, the country's ambassador to Angola, Mohamed Safwat said Wednesday in Luanda.

[UN News] More than 16,000 children are displaced in eastern Libya following Africa's deadliest storm in recorded history the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday, highlighting the urgent need for psychosocial care.

[Unicef] New York/Amman/Tripoli -- Many more remain at risk and are in need of urgent access to essential services

[DW] Over the past two decades, Morocco has slowly transformed from a transit country to a destination country for sub-Saharan African migrants -- almost half of whom are women.

[Daily Trust] Nigeria's joint bid with the Republic of Benin has failed to sail through as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced Morocco as the host for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) while Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have been named joint hosts of the 2027 tournament.

[HRW] Migration Control Funding Could Perpetuate Human Rights Violations

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Algeria's ambassador to Angola, Abdelhakim Mihoubi, expressed today, in Luanda, his country's willingness to keep strengthening the "historic" relations between the two countries, in several domains.

[CAF] The Confédération Africaine de Football ("CAF"), today awarded the Africa Cup of Nations ("AFCON") 2025 to Morocco and the AFCON 2027 to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

[VOA] Amizmiz, Morocco -- Just weeks ago, Abdessamad Elgzouli earned a living introducing tourists to the rugged beauty of Morocco's High Atlas Mountains and the ethnic Amazigh, or Berbers, who live here.

[UN News] The Algerian Government must pay urgent attention to the pattern of legal restrictions and prosecutions of individuals and associations in the North African country, a UN-appointed independent expert said on Tuesday.

[allAfrica] Harare -- Egypt's presidential election will now be held in December 2023, rather than in the Spring of 2024 as previously planned. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is highly likely to remain in power, announced the plan as the country faces pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to devalue their currency in order to access bailout funding.

[Premium Times] Nigeria will make a 10-minute presentation to the CAF EXCO and thereafter will be allocated time to answer questions from its presentation.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President of the Republic Kais Saied chaired a National Security Council meeting at Carthage Palace on Monday, during which a number of issues were discussed, including human trafficking, the increase in road accidents, the situation of the media and the medical city in Kairouan.

[MAP] Kuwait -- The National Federation of Moroccan Scouting participated in the Arab-International Scouting Forum "Creativity and Innovation", which was held in Kuwait on September 17-22.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- :- Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have agreed to continue the trilateral negotiation on the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) in October 2023 in Cairo, Egypt.

[Dabanga] Negotiations between Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) resumed on Saturday. The head of the Ethiopian delegation said that the meeting will discuss outstanding issues regarding filling and operating rules, noting that the meeting is being held after the completion of the fourth filling.

[RFI] The authorities in eastern Libya want to rebuild the town of Derna as quickly as possible, nearly two weeks after a flash flood destroyed more than 20 percent of the Libyan port city. The official death toll keeps rising, passing 3,800 over the weekend.

[The Conversation Africa] Sixty-six million years ago, the Cretaceous period ended. Dinosaurs disappeared, along with around 90% of all species on Earth. The patterns and causes of this extinction have been debated since palaeontology began. Was it a slow, inevitable decline, or did the end come quickly, driven by a sudden, unpredictable disaster?

[Ayin English] Ruba Ahmed, a young lady who used to live in the restive capital Khartoum until the war broke out in mid-April, had two goals: find a car to escape the conflict and ensure her ailing father receives treatment in neighbouring Egypt. Like millions of others who have fled the capital, it was a harrowing journey. Her father, 76 years old, had Alzheimer's disease and was struggling to breathe amidst the conflict-driven debris found in Khartoum. Ruba took three days, passing through seemingly infinite security

[ENA] Addis Ababa, -- The second-round tripartite negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) kicked off in Addis Ababa today.

[MAP] Amizmiz -- A large-scale operation to provide power supply to accommodation camps for earthquake victims has been recently launched in the different villages and localities of Al Haouz province to improve the living conditions of the affected population.

[SPS] New York (United Nations) -- The Prime Minister of Lesotho, Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane, defended on Friday in New York the right to self-determination and independence of the Sahrawi and Palestinian peoples.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Pharmaceutical imports rose by 44% over the last five years, from TND1,228.6 million in 2018 to TND1,764 in 2022, according to a note published recently by the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT).

[SPS] Algiers -- Several heads of State and Government reiterated, during the works of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, the right of the Sahrawi and Palestinian peoples to self-determination and independence.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The European Union delegation in Tunisia pointed out that support for vulnerable groups in Tunisia had been the focus of two meetings held by EU Ambassador to Tunisia with the President of the Tunisian Red Crescent and the Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tunis.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A cooperation agreement between the Foreign Investment Promoption Agency (FIPA) and the Algerian Investment Promotion Agency (AAPI) is under review in a bid to foster relations between both agencies and encourage cross-investments between the two countries, said FIPA-Tunisia.

[SPS] Geneva -- The French Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP) has expressed its concern over the excessive use of arbitrary detention by Morocco against Sahrawi political prisoners, calling on the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to visit these detainees.