Former Moroccan minister and lawyer Mohamed Ziane is currently detained on the basis of two distinct criminal cases,...
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West Africa: Allegations of Staged Military Takeover Cloud Guinea-Bissau’s Electoral Crisis
Guinea-Bissau, a small West African nation of 2.2 million people sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea, has been...
Washington Initiates Review Process for Possible Terrorism Designations of Muslim Brotherhood Branches
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on 23 November 2025 that his administration has initiated a formal review to...
Law: Liberal Tunisians looking to draft a constitution without mention of religion
By Ezzedine Said and Aymen Jamli The legal expert charged with rewriting Tunisia's constitution said Monday he would...
Unease at EU after Algeria ended cooperation treaty with Spain
The European Union on Thursday urged Algeria to reverse a decision to suspend its cooperation treaty with EU member...
Algeria suspends treaty of friendship with Spain over Western Sahara
By Abdellah Cheballah Algeria said Wednesday it was suspending a decades-old co-operation treaty with Spain, after...
Tunisian police block protests against president’s referendum
Tunisian police scuffled with protesters against President Kais Saied on Saturday as around 100 people demonstrated...
Egypt: Regime pardons 11 political prisoners, but keeps 60,000 others in jail
A presidential pardon on Wednesday saw Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi released from jail after three...
Tunisia: More political drama in Tunis as president fires dozens of judges
By Aymen Jamli Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday sacked 57 judges accused of corruption and other crimes,...
Sahel: Chad trade union calls strike over opposition arrests
The leading union group in Chad on Tuesday called for an indefinite strike from Wednesday demanding the immediate...
Tunisia: Trade union UGTT rejects participation to presidential dialogue
Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union confederation said Monday it would not take part in a national dialogue proposed...
The Libyan civil war: steady as it goes
By Arezki Daoud: Libya continues to surprise us. Its political leaders are morally bankrupt and getting worse by the...
Algeria: Ex assistant of Algeria’s late army chief sentenced to death
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high...
Sahel: Anti-French sentiment on the rise in Chad
Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday against France in the Chadian capital, accusing the former colonial power of...
Libya: Violent clashes in west Tripoli
Violent clashes rocked a western area of the Libyan capital overnight and until Sunday morning, an interior ministry...
Tunisia: New alliance to oppose power grab by President Saied
A crowd estimated at more than 2,000, lower than expected, took part Sunday in the first demonstration of a new...
Algerian government targets its citizens abroad, bans those who call for democratic reform
Summary: The Algerian authorities have begun to process of banning from entering Algeria its nationals who reside...
Tunisia: Struggling to make ends meet, Tunisians show no interest in presidential poll
By Kaouther Larbi Tunisian President Kais Saied, who last year grabbed power in what critics labelled a coup, has now...
Media: Mali bans French state-owned news agencies France24 and RFI
Mali's ruling junta has ordered French broadcasters RFI and France 24 off the air, complaining they had falsely...
Libya armed groups step back after Tripoli escalation
Libya's parliament-appointed prime minister said Friday that armed groups backing him had withdrawn from positions...
Tunisia: Protest in Tunis over president’s “power grab” as economy worsens
Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied's power...
Sahel: Peace talks between Chad regime and rebels get off to a bad start
Chad's military government and dozens of opposition groups started peace talks on Sunday in Qatar as a first step...
Tunisia: President appoints interim judicial authority after sacking independent council
Tunisia's President Kais Saied inaugurated a "temporary" council of judges on Monday, which replaces an independent...
Libya: Political impasse as rival authority in east insists on PM Dbeibah departure
War-torn Libya's parliament rejects any "interference" in its work, its speaker told the UN envoy on Monday after she...
Tunisia: Ex Justice Minister Bhiri released from house arrest, under investigation for “terrorism”
A former justice minister and senior figure in Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, under house arrest since...
Sahel: Mali military not ready to restore civilian rule
An envoy from West Africa's regional bloc left Mali on Friday, officials said, after inconclusive talks with the...
Libyan oil company dragged into political feuds
Five Western nations urged Libyans on Friday not to drag the National Oil Corporation into political disputes that...
Sahel: The Burkina Faso coup: Not so bloodless after all
Two civilians were killed and a dozen injured in last month's coup in Burkina Faso, an event that had previously been...
Libya: Another promise from Libya: legislative elections in five months
Libya's interim prime minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah reaffirmed Monday that he will only cede power to an elected...
Sahel: Mali military junta rules out return to normal for at least five years
Mali's lawmakers on Monday approved a plan allowing the military junta to rule for up to five years, AFP journalists...
Libya: Concerts and fireworks planned in Libya to celebrate 11th anniversary of Kaddafi’s fall
By Hamza Mekouar Libyans on Thursday mark 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the...
Morocco and Germany agree to resume diplomatic relations after year-long freeze
Morocco and Germany agreed Wednesday to overcome "misunderstandings" and renew "close amicable relations" after a...
Sahel: Denmark withdraws aid to Mali and Burkina Faso
Denmark will partially suspend its development aid to Mali and Burkina Faso, its foreign ministry said on Friday,...
Libya now has two prime ministers: expect fresh violence ahead
Libya since Kadhafi: a decade of civil war and chaos With Libya now having two rival prime ministers, this is a...
Mali’s new leaders are unflinching in face of economic turmoil
By Amaury Hauchard: Mali's ruling military junta has appeared unflinching so far in the face of economic sanctions...
Libya’s politics getting nasty and outright dangerous
Libya parliament names rival PM in challenge to unity govt By Hamza Mekouar: Libya found itself with two prime...
Egypt: In a break with tradition, Egypt’s new head of the Supreme Constitutional Court is a Coptic Christian
Egypt's first ever Coptic Christian judge to head the country's highest court was sworn in on Wednesday, an...
Mali: New Mali leaders looking to ease tensions with Ecowas
Mali's ruling junta said Wednesday that it was in talks with the West African bloc ECOWAS, as well as other...
Tunisian judges stage strike to protest closure of Supreme Judicial Council
Tunisian judges on Wednesday started a widely observed nationwide strike, days after President Kais Saied announced he...
Libya: Rising tensions over premiership in Libya: PM defies attempts to oust him
Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah on Tuesday defied attempts by parliament to replace him, setting up...
Tunisia: President Saied under pressure to restore Supreme Judicial Council
Western envoys to Tunisia and the UN rights chief urged President Kais Saied on Tuesday to restore a key judicial...
Tunisia: Police surround judicial watchdog, prevent access to building
Tunisian police on Monday blocked access to the country's top judicial watchdog in a move its chief slammed as...
Mali accuses France of seeking to divide the country
Mali's prime minister on Monday accused France of having sought the partition of the west African country during its...


