Politics Bound

By Arezki Daoud: Libya continues to surprise us. Its political leaders are morally bankrupt and getting worse by the day, under the control of thug foreign governments. They are unable to articulate their own crisis exit strategy that does not involve violence or the...

An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high treason", the French-language daily El Watan reported Sunday.  Guermit Bounouira, who was known to be close to late army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah,...

Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday against France in the Chadian capital, accusing the former colonial power of supporting the country's military junta. Demonstrators in N'Djamena burned at least two French flags and vandalised several petrol stations belonging...

Violent clashes rocked a western area of the Libyan capital overnight and until Sunday morning, an interior ministry source said, as local media reported the death of a militia commander.  Janzour, on the western outskirts of Tripoli, is home to the headquarters of...