North Africa

Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced plans to raise fees for ships passing through the Suez Canal by 15% in 2023. According to Ossama Rabiee, Chairman and CEO of SCA, transit fees for bulk carriers and tourist vessels will see a 10% increase. He also stated that the increase is inevitable …

Authorities in Egypt announced the release of 46 activists, many of whom have been held for several years in pre-trial detention. They include a prominent left-wing lawyer, Haytham Mohammadain, accused of being a member of a terrorist group – a blanket charge leveled at critics of the government, the BBC …

Morocco announced its own gas production from 2024 or 2025, in a context marked by an energy crisis due to the war in Ukraine. Following the discovery of the Anchois gas field off the coast of Larache earlier this year, Morocco plans to start producing natural gas in two or …

French Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne will pay a two-day working visit to Algiers, the Algerian capital from October 9 to 10, 2022, with the aim of consolidating the new start in relations between the two countries. While France and Algeria have recently gone through one of the worst diplomatic crises …

Faced with the shortage of Russian gas since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, several European countries have taken the option of reducing their dependence on Russia for gas because they consider Algeria to be a credible alternative. In a global context marked by an energy crisis linked to …

A Moroccan parliamentary group has proposed a bill that would see women granted paid menstrual leave days. If made law, the country would be the second in Africa, after Zambia, to grant women menstrual leave. In what would be a first for the Middle East-North Africa region, the proposal by …

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced his plan to appoint a former Senegalese minister to lead U.N. efforts to broker peace in Libya, Reuters agency reported on Thursday. The 15-member U.N. Security Council needs to agree by consensus to the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily as the U.N. special envoy for Libya. …

An oil tanker blocked the Suez Canal on Wednesday evening, raising fears of an interruption in maritime traffic similar to that caused by a ship in early 2021. The tanker is a Singaporean-flagged vessel 250 meters long and 45 meters wide and was en route to the Saudi port of …

The head of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) appointed Walid Regragui as the new official coach of the Atlas Lions of Morocco. Several weeks after the dismissal of Vahid Halilhodzic, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) officially invested Walid Regragui as the new boss of the Atlas Lions on …

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said during a visit to Algeria that the two countries should move beyond their painful shared history and look to the future. At a joint news conference with his Algerian counterpart, Mr Macron announced that a joint Franco-Algerian commission of historians would be set …