Politics Bound

Morocco-Spain relations facing new challenges as  Morocco focuses solely on Western Sahara politics By Hazel Ward, with Daniel Silva in Madrid - Migrants were still trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Wednesday after a record 8,000 people...

Mali's interim government is set to form a new "broad-based" cabinet, the presidency said on Friday, amid growing criticism of the army-dominated authorities in the Sahel state. Prime Minister Moctar Ouane resigned Friday but was immediately reappointed in order to...

(Photo: Libya's interim PM Dbeibah)  -  By Hamza Mekouar - A new unity government in Libya had raised hopes the war-ravaged North African nation had turned a corner towards peace -- but analysts warn that major stumbling blocks remain. Thousands of foreign mercenaries...

Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Tuesday put under "house surveillance" by a judge after he was questioned in an inquiry which has seen him charged with corruption. It was the second time Aziz had gone before a magistrate investigating...