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Libya Enters 2026 With the Same Political Fragmentation and Sustain Bad Foreign Influence
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Tunis Appeals Court Upholds Prison Sentence Against Opposition Leader Abir Moussi
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Libya: Electoral commission says Kadhafi cannot run for president due to his legal problems
Libya's electoral commission on Wednesday announced its rejection of the candidacy of Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of...
Burkina Faso: Anti-France sentiment in Burkina Faso creates operational challenges for French troops in the Sahel
Mali: West African block seeks to isolate Mali’s junta
Libya: Former Interior Minister Bashagha and parliament chief Aguila want to be president
Security: As Russia’s influence in Africa grows, EU wants to impose sanctions on Russian mercenaries Wagner
Libya: More voices call for rejection of Seif al Islam Kadhafi’s presidential bid
Libya: The resurrected old demons: Seif al-Islam Kadhafi to run for president
Libya: Handful of mercenaries may leave Libya soon
Forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said Thursday 300 foreign mercenaries fighting on their side would leave the...
Algeria-Morocco conflict: Two scenarios on the likelihood of an armed confrontation
Will then fight or will they not? Tensions between Algeria and Morocco continue to escalate following the killing of...
Algeria sacks General Mohamed Kaidi, head of the military Employment & Preparedness department, signals continued instability in military leadership
In a surprise move, General Mohamed Kaidi, the head of one of the most strategic departments in Algeria's defense...
Libya: France wants elections in December in Libya, to host talks this week
Tunisian regime uses military courts to repress civilians
Morocco’s Western Sahara comments ‘fabrication’: Polisario
Libya: Presidential council suspends Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush
Algeria: Regime in Algeria rejects reconciliation with France
Tunisian regime starting to use judicial harassment to attack critics
Western Sahara: Tension in the Maghreb increases after killing of three Algerian truckers in contested region
Germany and Morocco continue to disagree on Western Sahara despite Rabat’s pressure to sway Germany’s position
Subscriber access: Despite Morocco’s pressure to convince Germany to support its claims on the disputed Western Sahara...
Sahel: Chad rebels claim they want political solution and dialogue with military junta
Return to authoritarianism fuels anger in the Arab world
Algeria to halt gas exports to Spain via Morocco
Mali: Despite supporting Mali’s strongman Goita, VP gets arrested for “subversive remarks”
Malian authorities have arrested a vice president of the country's interim parliament for making "subversive remarks"...
Tunisia: Nabil Karoui’s problems escalate after government closes Nessma TV
Tunisia's media authority on Wednesday ordered the closure of Nessma TV channel founded by defeated presidential...
Sahel: Mali expels ECOWAS representative
Mali's interim government has expelled the representative of West African bloc ECOWAS from the conflict-ridden and...
Algeria: Regime’s war against civil society intensifies
Lebanon: Deadly clashes in Beyrout after rally against port blast judge
Tunisia: President Saied annoyed by the opposition abroad, calls them traitors
Tunisia cracks down on Islamist media
Western Sahara: Veteran diplomat De Mistura takes on the impossible task of reconciling Algeria and Morocco on Western Sahara
Tunisia: President Saied appoints fellow academic to run government
By Aymen Jamli: Tunisia's president on Wednesday named geologist Najla Bouden as the country's first ever female prime...
European court rejects Morocco-EU trade deals involving Western Sahara territory
Reactions The Polisario, which seeks independence in the Western Sahara, welcomed a ruling Wednesday by the U's top...
Tunisia: Opposition rallies against president
About 2,000 Tunisians rallied in the capital on Sunday to protest against President Kais Saied's recent steps to...
Algeria: Retired General Ali Ghediri gets four years in prison for “undermining army morale”
An Algiers court on Thursday sentenced a former presidential candidate and retired general to four years in prison for...
Tunisia: Trade union UGTT perplexed by president’s power grab
Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union warned Friday against threats to the country's democracy after President Kais...
Algeria’s first post-Bouteflika leader, interim President Abdelkader Bensalah, dies aged 79
Veteran Algerian politician Abdelkader Bensalah, who served briefly as interim president after his mentor Abdelaziz...
Algeria buries ex-president Bouteflika in muted funeral
By Abdellah Cheballah with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African...
Morocco: Premiership swings to pro-monarchy party
Does it really matter? By Arezki Daoud: The press often spends too much ink on such ministerial appointments, and...
Egypt: Sisi hosts Israeli PM Naftali Bennett
By Sarah Benhaida and Farid Farid: Israel's Naftali Bennett met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday, on...
Algeria: Former Tunisian presidential candidate Karoui placed in pre-trial detention in Algeria
The runner-up in Tunisia's 2019 presidential election, Nabil Karoui, has been placed in pre-trial detention in...
Libya: Saadi, son of dictator Moamer Kadhafi, released from prison
Saadi Kadhafi, a son of Libya's late dictator Moamer Kadhafi who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has...