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...

A regional cooperation plan with Libya, Egypt, Cyprus and Turkey outlined by Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in parliament in Athens on 17 October could help resolve the...

The EU signed off on a new trade agreement with Morocco on 4 October that will include goods from the disputed Western Sahara region. The deal has been...

After multiple failed attempts to chart a route out of Sudan’s devastating civil war, the statement by the Quad – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the...

The European Union and Spain have ‘incentivized repression’ of migration by funding and supporting Mauritanian forces to bolster border and migration controls without ensuring adequate human rights safeguards,...

Morocco is vying with Egypt to become United States President Donald J Trump’s main ally in North Africa, after recognising Israel, with which it has long-standing security ties,...