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When you think that Egypt has reached the bottom of the surreal, hold your breath for a minute and see what happens next. Even North Korea's Kim Jong Un could not have gone so low. To please Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian police academy put up a show on Thursday,...

Morocco’s labor marker is in disarray. Even if you believe the government’s unreliable statistics, the country is bracing for a 15% unemployment rate by the end of this year. The projection, although bad enough, does not seem to take into account the thousands of...

(Photo: pro-vote banner in Algiers proclaiming: "we vote for us and our children) - Two weeks after the start of campaigning for the constitutional referendum, Algerian authorities from the ministry of the interior and provincial governments, have only authorized the...

Egypt executed 49 prisoners in just 10 days in October, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for authorities to "immediately halt" carrying out death sentences.   "Egypt's mass executions of scores of people in a matter of days is outrageous," HRW's Joe Stork...