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Elections in North Africa: No Excitement Ahead, No Change in Course
It’s a big political year worldwide. Many countries have already experienced or will have elections this year, and...
Burkina Faso Junta Faces Governance Challenges Amid Controversies and Rumors
Recently, there were shooting incidents in Ouagadougou and the absence of junta chief Captain Traore was interpreted...
Algeria officially invites Morocco’s King Mohammed VI to Arab summit
Morocco said Algeria on Tuesday invited its King Mohammed VI to attend an Arab League summit in Algiers in November,...
Tunisia’s political turmoil continues as government investigates leading opponents for terror-related actions
Two leaders of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha were called in Monday for questioning by an...
Tunisia: Opposition announces boycott of upcoming legislative elections
Tunisia's main opposition alliance said Wednesday its members including the once-powerful Ennahdha party would boycott...
Morocco gets support from heavyweight Germany over Western Sahara territorial claim
Germany gave its backing on Thursday to a Moroccan autonomy plan for resolving the Western Sahara conflict, days after...
Libya in turmoil again as tensions escalate
The United Nations on Tuesday voiced "deep concern" over growing tensions between rival Libyan forces, calling for...
Tunisia: Conflict between judiciary and President Kais Saied intensifies
Tunisia's judicial authorities on Wednesday revoked the sacking in early June by President Kais Saied of almost 50...
Western Sahara: Morocco and Algeria entrenched in their positions, unwilling to compromise
Morocco called Tuesday for a return to regional roundtable talks on a peace deal over the Western Sahara, a format...
Libya: Rogue politician Fathi Bashagha still dreams of entering Tripoli to oust another rogue PM
By Paul Raymond Libya's Fathi Bashagha, appointed as prime minister in a challenge to a unity government in Tripoli,...
Algeria-Spain relations thrown into disarray after Madrid ended its neutrality on the Western Sahara
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: With Algeria supplying 40% of Spain's gas consumption and providing lucrative export market...
Algeria suspends treaty of friendship with Spain over Western Sahara
By Abdellah Cheballah Algeria said Wednesday it was suspending a decades-old co-operation treaty with Spain, after...
Tunisia: More political drama in Tunis as president fires dozens of judges
By Aymen Jamli Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday sacked 57 judges accused of corruption and other crimes,...
Tunisia: New alliance to oppose power grab by President Saied
A crowd estimated at more than 2,000, lower than expected, took part Sunday in the first demonstration of a new...
Tunisia: Protest in Tunis over president’s “power grab” as economy worsens
Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied's power...
Libyan oil company dragged into political feuds
Five Western nations urged Libyans on Friday not to drag the National Oil Corporation into political disputes that...
Libya: Concerts and fireworks planned in Libya to celebrate 11th anniversary of Kaddafi’s fall
By Hamza Mekouar Libyans on Thursday mark 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the...
Libya now has two prime ministers: expect fresh violence ahead
Libya since Kadhafi: a decade of civil war and chaos With Libya now having two rival prime ministers, this is a...
Libya: Rising tensions over premiership in Libya: PM defies attempts to oust him
Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah on Tuesday defied attempts by parliament to replace him, setting up...
Tunisia: President Saied under pressure to restore Supreme Judicial Council
Western envoys to Tunisia and the UN rights chief urged President Kais Saied on Tuesday to restore a key judicial...
Tunisia’s president continues to degrade government, dissolves judicial watchdog
By Aymen Jamli and Francoise Kadri Tunisian President Kais Saied on Sunday dissolved a top independent judicial...
Sahel: Mali leaders want more power
Mali's military-dominated authorities on Saturday published a bill designed to further shore up the powers of junta...
Libya: Parliament speaker Aguila Saleh calls for new government
Libya's parliamentary speaker called Monday for a new interim government to be established in the capital Tripoli,...
Dirty politics: Scandal in Algeria after ex-private secretary of late army chief accuses current chief of drug and arms trafficking
On Sunday, 9 January 2022, Guermit Bounouira, former private secretary of the late army chief General Ahmed Gaïd...
Sahel: Political impasse in Mali as opposition groups and junta disagree on transition details
A major coalition of Malian political parties on Sunday rejected the military-dominated government's plan for a...
Libya: Stephanie Williams replaces Jan Kubis as UN SG’s special advisor on Libya
American diplomat Stephanie Williams was appointed Monday as the UN secretary-general's special advisor on Libya,...
Libya: The resurrected old demons: Seif al-Islam Kadhafi to run for president
Seif al-Islam Kadhafi: Profile of a criminal who wants to be president Seif al-Islam, the son of slain Libyan dictator...
Tunisian regime starting to use judicial harassment to attack critics
A Tunisian judge on Thursday issued an international warrant to summon Paris-based former president Moncef Marzouki...
Tunisia: Nabil Karoui’s problems escalate after government closes Nessma TV
Tunisia's media authority on Wednesday ordered the closure of Nessma TV channel founded by defeated presidential...
Sahel: Mali expels ECOWAS representative
Mali's interim government has expelled the representative of West African bloc ECOWAS from the conflict-ridden and...
Tunisia: President Saied annoyed by the opposition abroad, calls them traitors
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday accused unnamed politicians of using refuge overseas to "plot" against the...
Tunisia: President Saied appoints fellow academic to run government
By Aymen Jamli: Tunisia's president on Wednesday named geologist Najla Bouden as the country's first ever female prime...
European court rejects Morocco-EU trade deals involving Western Sahara territory
Reactions The Polisario, which seeks independence in the Western Sahara, welcomed a ruling Wednesday by the U's top...
Tunisia: Trade union UGTT perplexed by president’s power grab
Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union warned Friday against threats to the country's democracy after President Kais...
Morocco: Premiership swings to pro-monarchy party
Does it really matter? By Arezki Daoud: The press often spends too much ink on such ministerial appointments, and...
Libya: Saadi, son of dictator Moamer Kadhafi, released from prison
Saadi Kadhafi, a son of Libya's late dictator Moamer Kadhafi who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has...
Morocco: Political parties embroiled in allegations of illegal campaign spending
One of Morocco's leading political parties was on Friday fending off a chorus of accusations of illegal campaign...
Morocco to close its Algiers embassy after ties cut
Morocco is to close its embassy in Algiers on Friday, an official source said, after Algeria severed ties with the...
Algeria cuts ties with Morocco after months of diplomatic turmoil
Morocco says Algeria's cutting of diplomatic ties 'unjustified' Morocco's foreign ministry said Tuesday that Algeria's...
Tunisia: Enjoying popular support, President Saied reasserts his authority, ups pressure on his opponents
Tunisian President Kais Saied has extended his suspension of parliament "until further notice", a month after sacking...
Tunisian president scores big wins with military support and Islamist party doing soul searching
Ennahda party looking for new directions Tunisia's Ennahdha party ready for 'self-critique' Tunisia's...
Tunisian police arrest more parliamentarians critical to the president
Tunisian security forces have arrested two MPs from an Islamist party opposed to a power grab by President Kais Saied,...