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2021 in North Africa

The following lists events that happened during 2021 in North Africa.

Countries and territories

Algeria

Egypt

Libya

Morocco

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a self-proclaimed state recognized by about 80 countries and the African Union.

Morocco claims and controls 80% of Western Sahara.

Sudan

Tunisia

Monthly events

January and February

  • January 1 – The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) officially begins.
  • January 3
  • Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia agree to hold further talks this month to resolve their dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile.
  • Two hundred sixty-five migrants, mostly from Eritrea, are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea.
  • January 5 – Four migrants die in a boat headed for Tenerife, Canary Islands. 23,000 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands in 2020, and some 500 died.
  • January 19 – Eighty-seven migrants scale the Melilla border fence; nine are taken to hospital.
  • January 20 – 2021 Tunisian protests enter their fifth day.
  • February 5
  • Abdul Hamid Dbeibah is chosen as transitional unity prime minister of Libya.
  • Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi says he supports the transitional government of Libya.
  • February 7 – DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, new chair of the African Union, says he intends to make settlement of the dispute over Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam a priority.
  • February 10 – The government of Sudan swears in a new Cabinet including Gibril Ibrahim as finance minister and ministers from the Sudan Revolutionary Front.
  • February 18 – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah meet in Cairo.
  • February 24 – Egypt endorses Sudan's proposal to internationalize the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam controversy, calling for the participation of the African Union, the United Nations, the European Union, and the United States.

March and April

  • March 6 – Egyptian president El-Sissi meets with Sudanese general Al-Burhan in Khartoum.
  • March 26 – A stranded container vessel in the Suez Canal is holding up an estimated US$400 million an hour in trade, according to shipping data from Lloyd's List. It may take weeks to dislodge the 224,000-ton Ever Green.
  • March 28
  • 2021 Suez Canal obstruction
  • Egyptian Prime Minister Abdel Fatah al-Sissi orders officials of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) to begin preparations for the removal of containers. Efforts continue to refloat the ship during high tide with the aid of dredgers and an excavator on land.
  • The Ever Given is liberated and moved to the Great Bitter Lake for inspection.

Scheduled and programmed events

Elections

Sports

Deaths

See also

References

External links