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Analysis by Alessandro Bruno:  No country more than Italy – which faces both the prospect of another migrant wave and economic disaster - has a greater incentive to help mitigate, if not fully resolve, the crisis. Italy sees itself forced to react if it wants to...

The military investigating judge at the Blida military court on Sunday ordered the provisional detention of Athmane Tartag, Mohamed Mediène and Said Bouteflika for "undermining the authority of the Army" and "conspiracy against the authority of the state,  said a...

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...