Security & Defense Bound

In a surprise move, General Mohamed Kaidi, the head of one of the most strategic departments in Algeria's defense system, was relieved of his post on 8 November in circumstances that remain unknown. As head of the Employment & Preparedness Department, Kaidi has...

By Valérie Leroux and Jérôme Rivet French President Emmanuel Macron will host Friday an international conference aimed at ensuring Libya sticks to a plan to hold elections in December and turn a new page in its history, a decade after the overthrow of dictator Moamer...

Algeria-Morocco: Decades of tensions As Algeria accused Morocco of killing three of its truck drivers on a desert highway, we look at the North African neighbours' worsening relations. The disputed Western Sahara, which Rabat considers part of its kingdom but where...

A jihadist attack in Niger's volatile "tri-border" zone with Burkina Faso and Mali has killed dozens of members of a self-defence militia, local sources told AFP on Thursday.  The assault took place on Tuesday at Adab-Dab, a village about 55 kilometres (32 miles) from...