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Morocco: Ex-Minister and Lawyer, Mohamed Ziane Still in Detention
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West Africa: Allegations of Staged Military Takeover Cloud Guinea-Bissau’s Electoral Crisis
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Libyan delegates pick Abdulhamid Mohammed Dbeibah as transitional prime minister
By Robin Millard with Rim Taher in Tripoli - Libyan delegates at UN-facilitated talks outside Geneva on Friday made...
The Amazigh people of Libya struggling for recognition
Amid increasing violence between two rival factions, the country’s biggest indigenous people get set for an uncertain...
Burkina Faso Prime Minister proposing to negotiate with insurgents
Burkina Faso Prime Minister Christophe Dabire on Thursday floated the idea of negotiations with jihadist groups, an...
Sahel: Chad opposition parties coalesce against autocratic ruler Deby in upcoming election
Twelve opposition parties in Chad say they will field a joint candidate against Idriss Deby Itno, who has been in...
Chad regime bans protest before announcing candidacy of autocrat Idriss Deby
Chad's government has barred the opposition from staging protests ahead of an expected announcement by President...
Algeria: Court upholds long-prison terms of disgraced former Prime Ministers Ouyahia and Sellal
A court in the Algerian capital on Thursday upheld hefty prison sentences against two former prime ministers who...
Sahel: Mali claims it ended military junta rule
Tunisia: Death of protester in Sousse reignites unrest as PM proposes new cabinet
Egypt: Unsolved murder of Giulio Regeni continues to irk Italy
Libya: Russian and other foreign mercenaries still active in Libya
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
Western Sahara: How Trump’s madness could undermine Morocco’s claim over the Western Sahara
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
Egypt angry at Ethiopia after Ethiopian diplomat spoke of Egypt’s internal problems
Mali military junta ratchets up repression against political figures
Algeria: Another difficult year ahead, says MEA Risk
Algerian president returns home after covid-19 treatment in Germany
Sahel: Can Niger manage its first peaceful handover of presidential power?
Mali’s military junta targets prominent figures in alleged ‘state security violation’
Mali: Less than two months after his release by Jihadists, opposition leader Soumaila Cisse has died of Covid-19
Tunisia: Media owner and ex presidential candidate Karoui arrested in corruption case
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 ($)
Tunisia: Gulf monarchies are not ripping apart just Libya, they are now focused on Tunisia via their local proxies ($)
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
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....