Governance Bound

Algiers, Dec 28, 2019 - Algeria's new president on Saturday named as his prime minister an academic turned political insider who vowed to work to win back people's trust after months of street protests. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected this month to succeed ousted...

Rabat, Dec 26, 2019 - A Moroccan YouTuber (see photo) was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for "insulting the king" in a video broadcast on social networks, his lawyer said. In a separate case, a Moroccan journalist and activist was charged and detained over...

Algiers, Dec 27, 2019 - Tens of thousands of Algerians demonstrated Friday for the second consecutive week since the contentious election of a new president, insisting on a total revamp of the political establishment. Since February 22, the streets of the capital...

Opinion by Arezki Daoud | Even Hollywood could not have come up with such a dramatic script. The head of the Algeria military junta is dead after 15 years as Defense Chief of Staff and nearly a year as the country's undeclared, but real dictator.  Over the past few...