A diplomatic crisis between Algeria and the United Arab Emirates has been brewing for some time, and it has now taken...
politics upfront Bound
Senegal President Suspends Presidential Election, Pushes Country into Chaos
By Nicolas Beau | MondAfrique: The specter of an unprecedented political crisis looms over Senegal with President...
Podcast: The Sahel is the Next Big Geopolitical Crisis where Foreign Meddlers are Congregating
Transcript: The Sahel is now clearly the next big event in Africa's geopolitics. After the complete destruction of...
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,...
Political Crisis in Tunisia: Continued Coverage
More on Tunisia and the region Updated continuously [bookmark this page] Reactions abroad...
Tunisia: Political crisis intensifies as President suspends parliament and dismisses Prime Minister
Islamist ruling party slams president's decision to suspend parliament as 'state coup' Tunisia's ruling party, the...
Libya’s normalization efforts at an impasse
The UN envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, on Thursday warned of an impasse in the political, security and budgetary plans for...
Algeria: Now that the fake elections are over, time to pick a rubber-stamping Prime Minister
And now what? By Arezki Daoud: President Tebboune has had his election and it turned out to be a disaster. The man was...
Maghreb: Tension likely to rise in Maghreb after Morocco announced US military exercises to take place in Western Sahara
Morocco's prime minister has said that US-led multi-nation African military exercises this month would take place in...
Sahel: Ridicule over Mali’s military regime and threat of sanctions prompt junta to announce upcoming “broad-based” government
Mali's interim government is set to form a new "broad-based" cabinet, the presidency said on Friday, amid growing...
Morocco: Growing bad blood with Europe over the disputed Western Sahara
Rabat directs its anger at Spain Moroccan media calls the current state of affairs between Morocco and Spain as “a...
Chad: More smokes and mirrors in N’Djamena as military junta announces transition government
Editor Opinion: Smokes & Mirrors A “civilian prime minister,” a “transitional government.” “restoring democracy,”...
Algerian regime powerless in front of worsening social and labor climate, responds with repression only
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday urged his government to open "a dialogue" with social partners to...