Governance Bound

The fall of the notorious General Wassini Bouazza, former head of an equally notorious secret police, has done nothing to slow the level of repression suffered by the Algeria people in the hands of the generals in charge.  Repression and judicial harassment against...

Rabat, April 13, 2020 - More than 4,300 people were arrested over the weekend in Morocco for breaching emergency rules in place to combat the novel coronavirus, according to official figures. More than half of those detained were taken into police custody.   Since...

Cairo, April 11, 2020 - Egyptian police arrested a dozen people and fired tear gas in a Nile Delta village Saturday, as a crowd protested the burial of a COVID-19 victim, a security source said.  Relatives had taken the body of a retired doctor from her home in...

Algiers, April 12, 2020 (By Amal Belalloufi with Philippe Agret in Tunis) - Algeria faces economic and social turmoil if crude prices continue to collapse, experts have warned, with the oil-dependent country reeling from a year of popular protests, political turmoil...