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Algeria–France Diplomatic Crisis Intensifies
By Arezki Daoud: I was in Algeria last week and it was difficult to ignore the escalating diplomatic tension between...
West Africa: ECOWAS in turmoil
West Africa's economic grouping, ECOWAS, faces a new crisis as former chairman and Guinea-Bissau President Umaro...
Libya: Lawmakers slam Haftar’s assault on Tripoli
Tripoli, May 2, 2019 (AFP) - Dozens of Libyan lawmakers supporting the internationally-recognised government on...
Sahel: Political stakeholders in Mali agree on how to forme new government, but tough road ahead
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: As there seems to be a consensus among the stakeholders of the Malian political...
Egypt: Trump’s gift to General Sisi, naming Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization
Washington, April 30, 2019 - President Donald Trump is considering placing the Muslim Brotherhood on a US blacklist...
Libya: Hundreds killed, scores wounded in Tripoli offensive
Espiaa, Libya, April 30, 2019 (By Simon Valmary) - Plumes of smoke rise from the plain south of Libya's capital as...
Algeria: Former PM and head of ruling RND party Ahmed Ouyahia faces court over graft
Algiers, April 30, 2019 - Former Algerian prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia was questioned on Tuesday in a widening...
Algeria: Graft court questions Finance Minister Mohamed Loukal
Algeria: Former police chief General Hamel summoned by court in corruption case
Algeria: Tenth consecutive Friday of protest, pressure on regime maintained
Algeria: Defense chief overshadows Interim President, takes center-stage in determining country’s future ($)
Algerian Islamist leader Abassi Madani dies in Qatar
Libya: France accused of complicity in the Libyan crisis, Paris denies
Algeria/Brief: CEO of Sonatrach fired
Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, the Chief Executive of Sonatrach has just been fired. Interim president of the Algerian...
Egypt: General Sisi consolidates his power
Libya: Death toll climbs, displacement accelerates in Tripoli
Algeria: Students maintain anti-government momentum
Algiers, April 23, 2019 - Thousands of Algerian students marched Tuesday through the capital calling for the overthrow...
Algeria: And the witch-hunt continues
Algeria: Six controversial Governors fired, including unpopular wali of Algiers
Morocco: Protest movement reenergized, monarchy must give something or face permanent state of protest
Libya: France’s Libyan dillema
Sahel: Boubou Cisse asked to form new government in Mali
Bamako, April 22, 2019 (AFP) - Mali's president on Monday named economy and finance minister Boubou Cisse as the new...
Algeria: Private business sector swept away by protest movement, several businessmen under arrest
Algeria: Protests maintain pressure against regime in ninth consecutive Friday of demonstrations
Algeria: The collapsing central state and the inevitable fall of the house of cards
Libya: How the Internet and new media are worsening the crisis in Libya
Libya: Unity government issues arrest warrant for Haftar
Tripoli, April 18, 2019 (AFP) - Libya's unity government on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for strongman general...
Egypt braces for long-term authoritarian regime
Libya: The battle for Tripoli rages on, 147 killed
Tripoli, April 15, 2019 - At least 147 people have been killed and 614 wounded in the offensive launched on April 4 by...
Cheering pro-democracy movements or supporting autocratic rulers: a reticent America
Morocco: Court upholds outrageous prison terms for Hirak leaders
Rabat, April 10, 2019 - Human Rights Watch on Wednesday warned Rabat over what it called the "shocking" Moroccan court...
Algerians find new interest in law and their constitution
Libya crisis update – 11 April 2019
Egypt: Teenage suicide bomber kills seven in Egypt
Cairo, April 9, 2019 - A teen suicide bomber killed four members of Egypt's security forces and three civilians...
The Libyan crisis and Rome’s immigration nightmare
Rome, April 11, 2019 - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned Thursday that the deteriorating situation in...
Algeria resurrecting major graft probes as police raid Sonatrach and Public Works ministry and ban hundreds from leaving the country
Algeria: Turmoil and leadership crisis at the ruling parties
Libya’s Escalating Civil War: The Oil Dimension
By Rauf Mammadov* and Theodore Karasik** - 10 April 2019: Libya’s civil war intensified this month after General...
Morocco: Jailed leader of the protest movement takes drastic step of sewing his lips
Algeria: Rejected by the Algerian people, the old guard remains in power
Algiers, April 9, 2019 - By Claire Doyen - Algerian lawmakers appointed a regime stalwart as interim president...
Libya: Fighting outside Tripoli rages on as UN struggles to find a solution to the crisis
Tripoli, April 10, 2019 - The battle for Libya's capital intensified as the UN Security Council prepared to meet...
