The Maghrebian Al-Soumoud convoy was set to meet the Global March to Gaza on Thursday, but the Egyptian authorities are detaining and deporting foreign nationals and even obstructing them from entering Egypt.
Libya has nearly 100,000 registered migrants and asylum seekers, but no mechanisms to welcome and support them. Tariq Lamloum tells OkayAfrica about his fight for migrants’ rights and what that means for his own life.
In 2011, Tunisia ushered the world into a new era of digital activism, referred to as the Arab Spring, creating a blueprint for protest movements in Egypt, Libya, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, and most recently, Kenya.
OkayAfrica’s North Africa correspondent shares the region’s most celebrated and underrated songs of the year — from Libya’s electronic Touareg music to Sudan’s rap revolution, and more.
Libya’s proposed morality police is the latest escalation in a pattern of increasing violence against women.
The reintroduction of the public morality protection unit would infringe on various international agreements to protect women from gender-based discrimination.
While the news of the Nigerian men’s soccer team’s mistreatment in Libya is the most recent and widely publicized, it’s far from the first.
The disciplinary committee awarded Nigeria full points and handed a hefty financial fine to Libya after Nigerian players shared their ordeal with the world.
A fortnight of extravaganza and star-studded concerts of unprecedented scale has been unfolding on Libya’s Mediterranean coast.
The soundtrack of North African summer is filled with melancholy, R&B, rap and electronic music.
Emergency responders uncover hundreds of bodies amidst wreckage. Mediterranean storm leaves 10,000 missing and wipes out a quarter of Derna, Libya, in a grim disaster.
Mahmoud Jibril, former leader of the rebel government that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has died after testing positive for the coronavirus.
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