Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, was freed from a Lebanese jail in November 2025...
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Spain Faces Scrutiny Over Migrant Centers in Mauritania
Debate in Spain has increased over government funding for migrant centers in Mauritania, with some critics arguing...
Crisis in Sudan: Meet the Ruthless Warlord Hemedti
Libya has Khalifa Haftar, Sudan has its own ruthless warlord, Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo—better known as Hemedti. Like...
Sahel: Mali claims it ended military junta rule
Mali has officially disbanded its military junta, according to a government decree seen by AFP on Tuesday, more than...
Tunisia: Death of protester in Sousse reignites unrest as PM proposes new cabinet
Man hit by teargas canister in Sousse dies Protesters clashed with police in the central Tunisian town of Sbeitla on...
Egypt: Unsolved murder of Giulio Regeni continues to irk Italy
Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday urged Egypt to cooperate with prosecutors seeking to try four Egyptian...
Libya: Russian and other foreign mercenaries still active in Libya
Foreign forces ignored a deadline to pull out of Libya as scheduled Saturday under a UN-backed ceasefire deal,...
Unable to govern, North African governments are using repression as their only tool in their toolbox
This week (ending 21 January 2021), Tunisia made the front pages of global media with Tunisians clashing with security...
Libyans want constitutional referendum before planned elections
Libyan envoys at UN-backed talks in Egypt agreed Wednesday to hold a constitutional referendum before planned...
Egypt: Decade after anti-regime protests, General Sisi neutralized opposition, killed democracy
The Muslim Brotherhood's existential fight: can it manage a comeback? The Arab Spring a decade ago gave Egypt's Muslim...
Sahel: Regime in Bamako bans the people of Mali from protesting foreign military presence
Mali's capital Bamako has banned a demonstration against France's military role in the West African country, the...
Egypt: Saudi Arabia allows Egypt to restore relations with Qatar
Egypt and Qatar agreed Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations, Egypt's foreign ministry said, after a...
Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the seizure of assets of former president Mohamed Morsi and 88 other members of...
Western Sahara: How Trump’s madness could undermine Morocco’s claim over the Western Sahara
By Arezki Daoud: Anger in the United States against disgraced American president Donald Trump has reached its peak....
Tunisia: Celebrating one decade of protest and a whole lot more to come
By Caroline Nelly Perrrot and Aymen Jamli: Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, has also been its relative success...
US-Africa: Trump’s disastrous reputation in Africa
As they watched a violent mob smash into the US Capitol, some in Africa could not help but see a little irony in the...
Libya: More evidence of Moscow’s meddling in Libya affairs: Russians operatives freed in Libya
Three Russians and one Ukrainian have been released from captivity in Libya, the head of a controversial Moscow-based...
Egypt angry at Ethiopia after Ethiopian diplomat spoke of Egypt’s internal problems
Egypt's foreign ministry said it has summoned Ethiopia's top diplomat in Cairo over comments by an Addis Ababa...
Mali military junta ratchets up repression against political figures
The Malian authorities on Thursday charged six figures, including a former prime minister, with seeking to mount a...
Algeria: Another difficult year ahead, says MEA Risk
Algeria ends the year 2020 with 1,878 critical incidents, down 35.4% from 2,909 in 2019, according to MEA Risk LLC....
Algerian president returns home after covid-19 treatment in Germany
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned to Algeria Tuesday after a two-month absence in Germany, where he received...
Sahel: Can Niger manage its first peaceful handover of presidential power?
Voters went to the polls in Niger on Sunday for an election that could seal a first peaceful handover between elected...
Mali’s military junta targets prominent figures in alleged ‘state security violation’
The Malian authorities said Monday they had opened an inquiry into violation of state security, a move that came after...
Mali: Less than two months after his release by Jihadists, opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of Covid-19
Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of coronavirus aged 71, his family and party said Friday, after being...
Tunisia: Media owner and ex presidential candidate Karoui arrested in corruption case
Controversial Tunisian media mogul and former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui was rearrested on Thursday in...
Sahel: France signals willingness to allow talks with Jihadists in the Sahel
France could back talks with some jihadist elements in Africa's restive Sahel region, a source in President Emmanuel...
Spain annoyed by Morocco’s PM El Othmani over his comments on Ceuta and Melilla
Spain has summoned the Moroccan ambassador to explain comments by its prime minister over the Spanish north African...
Sahel: Mali is now a military dictatorship
Hopes that soldiers behind Mali's coup would swiftly restore civilian rule and tackle jihadism and ethnic violence are...
Algeria’s mediocre diplomacy: Even the Tunisians are slowly turning their back to Algiers ($)
Between Tunis and Algiers, diplomatic relations are strained, resulting from the recent statements of two former top...
Tunisia: Gulf monarchies are not ripping apart just Libya, they are now focused on Tunisia via their local proxies ($)
How Ennahdha chief Ghannouchi sides with Qatar and Abir Moussi is the UAE's darling in Tunisia. In Tunisia, two...
Algerian regime launches frontal assault on online media
Algeria has announced tighter state controls over online media, sparking alarm in the North African country whose...
Burkina Faso: Christian Kabore “wins” presidential election
Burkina Faso's top court on Friday certified that President Roch Marc Christian Kabore had been elected for a second...
Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in...
Libya releases Russian operatives after serving 18 months in prison for vote meddling
An ally of President Vladimir Putin has shelled out nearly $500,000 to two Russian political operatives recently freed...
Algeria: Recovering from Covid, President says he will return from Germany in two-to-three weeks
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Sunday he was recovering from the Covid-19 illness, in his first...
Morocco recognizes Israel in exchange for Trump’s backing on the Western Sahara crisis
First impressions, by Arezki Daoud Today, 10 December 2020, Morocco said it will resume -"with minimum delay-...
Algeria: Purge of former regime operatives continues
This week, Algeria experienced a series of court decisions that have accelerated the fight against corruption....
Sahel: An army Colonel heads Mali’s legislative body
Mali's interim legislature on Saturday elected Colonel Malick Diaw, a member of the military junta that toppled...
Algeria: Iconic opposition activist Karim Tabbou gets one-year suspended sentence
Algerian opposition activist Karim Tabbou, a key figure in anti-government protests last year, was given a one-year...
Mali’s in big trouble: A legislative body appointed by a junta-backed government
Mali's interim government on Thursday announced the composition of a new legislative body for the West African...
Egypt and Italy appear to abandon the pursuit of truth in murder of Guilio Regeni in Egypt
Egypt is to "temporarily close" its investigation into the murder in Cairo of Italian student Guilio Regeni, for which...
How Arab people’s efforts to bring democracy are undermined by online fake news
The incompetent Arab regimes: Opinion by Arezki Daoud Arab governments have perfected the science of fake news and...
Algeria’s president Tebboune still missing in action: power vacuum in the making
A month after Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was hospitalised in Germany and tested positive for coronavirus,...