Libya is edging towards a power-sharing agreement after the rival parliaments in Tripoli and Benghazi agreed on 11 April to approve a unified budget, as the first since...

Morocco is aiming to tighten its grip on Western Sahara by getting the United States Congress to designate the Sahrawi independence movement’s political arm, the Polisario Front, as...

Whenever Egypt is hit by external shocks or domestic turmoil, one of the first economic reactions is a flight of short-term capital. The current crisis has been no...

Until its chaotic final on the evening of 18 January, Morocco had enjoyed an exceptional Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), marked by state-of-the-art stadia served by new motorways...

The baton as Africa’s leading carmaker has passed to Morocco, which produced over a million vehicles last year, overtaking South Africa. South Africa made 554,613 vehicles between January...

Algeria is beefing up its security forces to keep a lid on opposition this year. El Hirak (The Movement), whose actions in 2019 removed ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika –...

Egypt is mired in geopolitical crises and financial deficits – underwritten by Gulf states that increasingly want to turn a profit for their dollars from an economy that...

The prevailing narrative in Morocco has it that King Mohammed VI (M6) has presided over social uplift, impressive new infrastructure and major progress in achieving the central policy...

Tunisia has returned to a highly personalised form of rule since President Kaïs Saïed was elected in 2019, and whose July 2021 ‘state of exception’ – now most...

The Polisario Front’s lawyers are heading back to the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg after Oubi Bouchraya, Polisario’s legal advisor, confirmed that they would file a legal...