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The political crisis in Algeria intensified this week with the judiciary taking exceptional steps to investigate and arrest several political and business leaders.  For many leaders of the protest movement, the arrests appear to be a witch hunt that is motivated by a...

The Moroccan monarchy has been extremely hesitant to put in place more meaningful reforms that would address the basic civil rights of the general population. The Kingdom is often characterized by its lobby groups as "the Moroccan exception," considering that there...

By Arezki Daoud - 18 April 2019: A remnant of the Bouteflika regime, Tayeb Belaiz had the decency this week to resign under the intense pressure from the streets.  He is just one card of the many that form this very fragile house of cards that is the Algerian...

Cairo, April 17, 2019 - Egypt on Wednesday set a referendum for April 20-22 on sweeping constitutional changes including amendments that could extend President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's rule until 2030. The push to extend the former military chief's tenure is expected to...