Mauritania’s high-profile corruption trial of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has sparked a bigger...
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Algeria Cuts French Imports in Bid for Self-Sufficiency and Diversification
France once held a firm place in Algeria’s food supply chain, from wheat fields in Burgundy to cattle farms in the...
Sahel: Russia Reorganizes in Mali: Wagner Withdraws, Africa Corps Moves In
After months of behind-the-scenes talks, Russia has managed to phase out the Wagner Group in Mali and replace it with...
Egypt: Restrictive law likely to mark the death of many NGOs in Egypt
Cairo, July 15, 2019 - Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments to a controversial law that rights groups say...
Algeria: Arrest of former industry minister Youcef Yousfi paves way for probes on major corruption cases in energy sector
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: Algeria has been plagued by widespread corruption ever since Bouteflika became president...
Algeria’s military command selects Conservative Islamist supporter as new parliament chief
Egypt: Pro-Mubarak Facebook page admin arrested for “spreading false info”
Cairo, July 11, 2019 - The administrator of a Facebook page supporting Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak was...
Tunisia: Presidential candidate Nabil Karoui charged with money laundering
Algeria: Two more Bouteflika operatives in jail over corruption
Algeria: Police repression against peaceful protesters intensifies
Algeria: Millions of Algerians mobilize for 20th week, demanding ouster of illegitimate regime
Algeria: Regime looking to insert Trojan horse in the protest movement
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: Here is yet another delaying tactic. General Gaid Salah has mandated Interim President to...
Podcast: Algerian military leaders in state of panic, pushing for violence
the Algerian crisis Algerian military leaders in state of panic, pushing for violenceThe Algerian military has lost...
Libya: Haftar’s embarrassing defeat in Gharyan may complicate the Libyan civil war
Algeria: Another Bouteflika operative forced to resign as speaker of lower house
Algerian journalist beaten, humiliated after arrest covering demos
Algerian military regime arrests war veteran Lakhdar Bouregaa for his political opinion
Libya: Warlord Haftar complicates his situation as he loses Gharyan
Algerian regime seeks to intimidate and scare, but Algerians continue to protest peacefully
Tunisia: Advisors seek to appease concerns over power vacuum as President fights for his life
Mauritania: State TV claims foreigners took part to anti-election protests, but shows no proof
Libya: Setback for warlord Haftar as Tripoli forces retake Gharyan
Tripoli, June 26, 2019 - Libyan forces opposed to Khalifa Haftar claimed Wednesday to have retaken Gharyan, a...
Tunisia: Tunis rocked by twin terror attacks, as President fights for his life
Tunis, June 27, 2019 - Double suicide attacks shook Tunisia's capital Thursday, even as the country was plunged into...
Sahel: New dictatorship in Mauritania after General Ould Ghazouani declared victory
Nouakchott, June 25, 2019 - Mauritanian police raided the headquarters of two opposition parties, closing one of them...
Libya: Parliamentary speaker calls for the shutdown of national oil production
Libya's National Oil Company has warned that any bid to tamper with the sector could escalate unrest in the...
Mauritania: Another general takes over power in North Africa
Nouakchott, June 23, 2019 - Government candidate and frontrunner Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won an absolute majority...
Algeria: Regime of General Gaid Salah arrests 18 for carrying Berber flag, increases repression of peaceful protesters
Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested 18 people who had brandished the Berber minority flag during an...
Algeria’s military command pushing for more instability
The Libyan civil war: no break for Tripoli
Podcast: Algeria’s political transition update as of 18 June 2019
In this podcast, Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk and The North Africa Journal provides an update on the state of the stalled...
Egypt: Fallout of President Morsi’s death
Egypt's Morsi likely 'more popular' after death Cairo, June 19, 2019 (By Aziz El Massassi) - Unpopular in power and...
Egypt: Opposition party accuses Egyptian authorities of “deliberately killing” Morsi
Cairo, June 18, 2019 (By Farid Farid and Mona Salem) - Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi...
Algeria: General Gaid Salah issues threats against those who don’t agree with him
Algiers, June 18, 2019 - Military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah said Tuesday that those who oppose the army were...
Algeria: Sovac caught in a complex web of corruption
An Algerian public prosecutor has officially communicated the facts in the corruption case related to the SOVAC...
Algeria: Business tycoon Ali Heddad jailed six months over illegal passport possession
Algiers, June 17, 2019 - Algeria's top businessman Ali Haddad, a key supporter of ousted president Abdelaziz...
Egypt: Former President Mohamed Morsi dies after facing judge
Cairo, June 17, 2019 - Mohamed Morsi, who died Monday aged 67, was Egypt's first democratically elected president but...
Algeria: Despite arrests of former senior government leaders, protest movement wants more, strong show of force this Friday
Algiers, June 14, 2019 (By Abdellah Cheballah with Aymeric Vincenot) - Demonstrators rallied in the Algerian capital...
Tunisian voters are tired of established parties, look for independents ahead of presidential election
A poll conducted by Sigma Conseil is suggesting that the Tunisians are tired of the good old political parties that...
Algeria: Another former Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal detained for corruption
The North Africa Journal - June 13, 2019: In another unprecedented move, judicial authorities tied to the Supreme...
Algeria: Former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia sent to Harrach prison in major corruption case
Algeria’s highly unpopular former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has been incarcerated on Wednesday, 12 June under a...
Algeria: Oligarch Mahieddine Tahkout under arrest
Algiers, June 10, 2019 - Algerian authorities on Monday detained an automobile tycoon linked to ousted president...
Algerians reject regime’s offer to talk, call gesture a “masquerade”
Algiers, June 7, 2019 (By Abdelhafid Daamache and Aymeric Vincenot) - Hundreds of demonstrators packed the centre of...
Algeria: Another empty speech likely to further galvanize the protest movement
By Arezki Daoud - 6 June 2019 - Algeria’s Interim President, Abdelkader Bensalah, looking old and sick, just like...