UN peacekeepers in Mali announced Monday their pullout has started from two camps in the tense Kidal region, opening a...
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Algeria fires CEO of energy giant Sonatrach
Corruption and Politics: By Arezki Daoud: Oil company Sonatrach is once again going through turmoil. This week, CEO...
Egypt: Sisi wants to be reelected ASAP, before switch to flexible exchange rate that could exacerbate social tensions
Egypt will hold a presidential vote on December 10-12, the election authority said Monday, with the winner to be...
Tunisia: Tunis rocked by twin terror attacks, as President fights for his life
Tunis, June 27, 2019 - Double suicide attacks shook Tunisia's capital Thursday, even as the country was plunged into...
Sahel: New dictatorship in Mauritania after General Ould Ghazouani declared victory
Nouakchott, June 25, 2019 - Mauritanian police raided the headquarters of two opposition parties, closing one of them...
Egypt: Opposition party accuses Egyptian authorities of “deliberately killing” Morsi
Cairo, June 18, 2019 (By Farid Farid and Mona Salem) - Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi...
Algeria: Sovac caught in a complex web of corruption
An Algerian public prosecutor has officially communicated the facts in the corruption case related to the SOVAC...
Algeria: The unraveling of corruption in business and politics
The North Africa Journal | 12 June 2019: These are unusual days in Algeria. Corruption probes are wreaking havoc on...
Morocco: The mining sector, a major source of wealth for the monarchy
Managem Group generates over half a billion euros of revenues a year, bringing massive wealth to the Moroccan...
Algeria: Divisions in the Islamist movement over Algeria’s protests
The Algerian protest movement has brought into the fore the divisions pitting the various Islamist movements operating...
Libya: Haftar troops unable to capture Tripoli, more violence ahead
Al-Swani, Libya, June 3, 2019 - As meat sizzled on a barbeque in a Tripoli suburb, Libyan fighters defending the...
Sahel: How Mali is descending into chaos
June 3, 2019 - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning of a "high risk" of atrocities in Mali in a report...
Chaos and insecurity in the Sahel
May 25, 2019 - Jihadists are scoring gains in the Sahel, defying efforts by five countries in the fragile region to...
The aggressive meddling of UAE and Saudi rulers in other countries’ affairs
May 24, 2019 - Turkey and Qatar risk losing geopolitical influence due to turmoil in Libya and Sudan, as regional...
Libya: Death toll in battle for Tripoli exceeds 500, no break for civilians in Ramadan
Tripoli, May 21, 2019 (By Imed Lamloum) - Violent clashes raged Tuesday south of Tripoli, marking an uptick in...
Deadlock in the Algerian crisis: the general vs. the people
The past days in Algeria were characterized by a continuation of the showdown between the anti-government protest...
Libya: How Tripoli residents cope with Haftar’s incessant attacks
Tripoli, May 16, 2019 (By Rim Taher) - Peering through the gate of a home in the western suburbs of Libya's war-torn...
Egypt: War rages in northeast Egypt, 52 killed in latest clash
Cairo, May 16, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt's army on Thursday said 47 militants and five of its troops were killed as part of...
Algeria: Defying the hardship of Ramadan and heat, the Algerian people return to the street to demand regime change
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: To their chagrin, the Algerian regime's hopes that the anti-government protest movement...
Algeria: Central and local governments facing growing disobedience and rebellion, as social unrest escalates
The northwestern province of Sidi Bel Abbes is the mirror of what is occurring across the entire country as social...
The Libyan Solution Passes through Rome, via Moscow and Doha
Analysis by Alessandro Bruno: No country more than Italy – which faces both the prospect of another migrant wave and...
Algeria: The events that led to the arrest of Saïd Bouteflika and two generals
The military investigating judge at the Blida military court on Sunday ordered the provisional detention of Athmane...
Algeria: Defense chief overshadows Interim President, takes center-stage in determining country’s future ($)
The political crisis in Algeria intensified this week with the judiciary taking exceptional steps to investigate and...
Morocco: Protest movement reenergized, monarchy must give something or face permanent state of protest
The Moroccan monarchy has been extremely hesitant to put in place more meaningful reforms that would address the basic...
Algeria: The collapsing central state and the inevitable fall of the house of cards
By Arezki Daoud - 18 April 2019: A remnant of the Bouteflika regime, Tayeb Belaiz had the decency this week to resign...
Egypt braces for long-term authoritarian regime
Cairo, April 17, 2019 - Egypt on Wednesday set a referendum for April 20-22 on sweeping constitutional changes...
Libya: UN Security Council debates over ceasefire while Tripoli crumbles
Tripoli, April 17, 2019 - The death toll from rocket fire on the Libyan capital Tripoli, blamed by the UN-recognised...
Algeria: The Algiers mosque, symbol of the misguided vision of a leader that destroyed his country
Algiers, April 15, 2019 - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika may be gone, but his unfinished Great Mosque of Algiers looms...
Algeria resurrecting major graft probes as police raid Sonatrach and Public Works ministry and ban hundreds from leaving the country
The North Africa Journal - 11 April 2019 - On 7 April 2019, the Algerian security authorities established a new list...
Algeria: Major shake-up of the Algerian intelligence services underway
The North Africa Journal - 11 April 2019: Several senior officers who directed various intelligence agencies during...
With the ousting of Bouteflika and al-Bashir, should others be concerned?
April 11, 2019 - Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by...
Libya’s Escalating Civil War: The Oil Dimension
By Rauf Mammadov* and Theodore Karasik** - 10 April 2019: Libya’s civil war intensified this month after General...
Libya: Fighting outside Tripoli rages on as UN struggles to find a solution to the crisis
Tripoli, April 10, 2019 - The battle for Libya's capital intensified as the UN Security Council prepared to meet...
Libya: How global and regional powers are sustaining the mess in Libya
April 8, 2019 - The attempted offensive by Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli has thrown into sharp relief...
Algeria: The men tasked to drive the post-Bouteflika transition and why people don’t trust them
By Arezki Daoud - April 3, 2019: There have been loud voices calling for a clean slate in the Algerian system of...
Algeria: Expect unprecedented purge of the Bouteflika clan, as Algerians seeks to uproot the “deep state”
By Arezki Daoud: 2 April 2019: For now, all of the named individuals and companies listed here are innocent of any...
Algeria: Bouteflika to resign this month, in a sketchy transition period likely to keep protests going
By Arezki Daoud - April 1, 2019: No, this is not an April fools' prank, the battered President of Algeria, Abdelaziz...
The Algerian crisis: Are we seeing the end of the tunnel?
(Photo: some highly criticized regime operatives, including Sidi Said (center with no suit), the disgraced head of...
Algeria: Exxon-Sonatrach talks on gas project stall as political crisis in Algeria deepens and fate of Sonatrach CEO at risk
The North Africa Journal - 20 March 2019: US oil firm Exxon Mobil suspended discussions with Algeria’s state-own...
Algeria: Regime clings to power, gives minor concessions to Algeria people
Algiers, March 12, 2019 - Thousands of protesters returned to Algeria's streets Tuesday after jubilation over...
Algeria protests shift to the next phase of nationwide strike, as regime ponders what to do
(Audio version above, on iTunes, and on Android, on YouTube, or download MP3) - Opinion by Arezki Daoud: 10 March...
Egypt’s Sisi frightened by Algerian protests, warns his people to not dare
Cairo, March 10, 2019 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Sunday against the dangers of protesting, in...
Algeria’s dangerous political gridlock
Algiers, Feb 28, 2019 - By Amal Belalloufi and Aymeric Vincenot: Mounting frustration at their ailing president's bid...