Governance Bound

Algeria: The emperor has no clothes, a president with no real powerF

There have been troubling developments in Algeria, confirming that newly appointed president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune has no control over his presidency.  The Hirak movement that has driven the disgraced former president Bouteflika out of office has always been...

Maghreb rulers feeling a bit generous this weekF

At least two rulers in North Africa felt a bit generous this week.  In Morocco, King Mohammed issued an order to free 201 people from prison. They are all nationals of Sub-Saharan nations whose crime was to immigrate outside of their troubled countries and show up in...

With oppression and no free speech, North Africans turn to football stadiums for politicsF

By Hamza Mekouar - From Casablanca to Algiers via Tunis, the chants belted out across football stadiums echo young North African fans' frustrations not connected to the highs and lows of the beautiful game. Chants of "F'bladi delmouni!" ("Oppressed in my country!") at...

Investigators probing role of Libya into financing of French ex-president Sarkozy’s election campaignF

Paris, Jan 31, 2020 - A businessman at the heart of a probe into alleged Libyan financing of French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign was handed over to authorities in Paris Thursday after being extradited from the UK, judicial sources said....

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