Shield and Alert: Maghreb Bound

Libya's unity government has carried out a prisoner exchange with rival eastern forces, releasing a pilot captured during strongman Khalifa Haftar's 2019 assault on Tripoli, local media reported Monday. According to the reports and images on social media, pilot Amer...

Tunisia's finance minister unveiled a budget Monday aiming to use new tax revenues to claw the deficit back to near five percent of GDP, as the cash-strapped country awaits an international bailout. The 2023 budget comes as the North African country grapples with...

Tunisian rights groups on Tuesday accused the electoral authority of "threatening" press freedom, after it sued bloggers and media outlets for alleged violations during a poll on a new constitution. Last week, the ISIE elections authority filed 24 legal complaints...

A powerful Tunisian trade union called Wednesday for a road map to "save" the country from a slide back to autocracy, after voters largely shunned last week's legislative elections. Just 11.2 percent of voters cast ballots Saturday for a new parliament stripped of...