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US: Global Media Reacts to America’s Epstein Reckoning
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Mauritania’s Former President Loses Final Appeal, Will Serve 15 Years
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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
Podcast: Tunisia faces a chaotic situation, as economic woes could derail political progress
Transcript Tunisia is a boiling cauldron. It is certain that the Covid-19 epidemic is having a drastic...
The unfinished Arab spring: buckle up for the next round
Algerian court orders retrial of former regime leaders, paves way for their release
Algeria's supreme court on Wednesday said the brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and two ex-intelligence...
The Western Sahara conflict reignites
For three decades, a UN-monitored ceasefire has kept a fragile peace in the disputed Western Sahara. Now a row over a...
Algeria confirms record low turnout for referendum on a new constitution, approves it anyway
The 23.8-percent turnout was a record low for a major vote in Algeria, with fewer than 15 percent of eligible voters...
Sahel: Mali politics sinking to new low with military’s attempt at power grab
Libya crisis: Talks in Tunisia show some progress
Libyans looking for an end to their conflict. Will foreign meddlers allow them?
Egypt: Impasse in talks over Ethiopia dam
Burkina Faso president launches campaign for second term
Algeria: Government finally recognizes president has Covid
Algeria: Failed referendum with another doctored election
Algeria: President Tebboune admitted to military hospital, authorities say ‘it’s no big deal’
Libya: Tenuous ceasefire in Libya as foreign meddlers ponder what to do next
Algeria’s opponents of the yes-vote for the new constitution banned from campaigning
Another fake election in Egypt
Egypt: Satirist Shady Abu Zeid freed from prison: Is Sisi feeling the winds of change in Washington?
Egypt: After Trump turned a blind eye to Sisi’s abuses, will US Democrats be as tolerant?
Algeria: After bleeding his country dry, oligarch Ali Haddad faces grim future
Prosecutors say ex French Prez Sarkozy was involved in criminal conspiracy, took money from Libya’s Muamar Gaddafi
Libya: Hopes for resolution of Libya crisis as rivals to meet and oil production resumes
Podcast: One more election in Algeria and a highly compromised economic outlook
Sahel: Ecowas lifts sanctions on Mali, interim government releases detainees
Sahel: French hostage and Mali opposition leader freed
Algerians defy regime repression, return to the street to demand change
Algeria: Regime pushes for another unpopular poll: a constitution crafted for army-appointed President Tebboune
Power politics in the Sahel: Profile of a Sufi leader
With Russia’s presence in Libya and turmoil in the Sahel, US seeks to reengage with the Maghreb
Libya: After Morocco, Egypt gets its own Libya conference
Tunisia: President Kais Saied shows his real self, backs use of death-by-hanging in murder cases
Mali: Moctar Ouane appointed Interim Prime Minister
Algerian regime jails activist Brahim Laalami and opposition politician Khaled Tazaghart
Mali’s neighbors want a civilian Prime Minister, pledge to keep sanctions otherwise
Podcast: An overstretched Egypt and the seeds of future unrest
In this 20-minute podcast, MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud discusses how overstretched Egypt is and what could be the...