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TUNISIA – President Kaïs Saïed now has more power
Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed announced on Wednesday, September 22, a series of measures that would give him more power in decision-making....
MOROCCO – Start of the campaign for legislative, regional and communal elections
The electoral campaign was launched in Morocco Thursday, August 26, 2021 throughout the country. This campaign concerns the parliamentary, regional and...
LIBYA – Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former president Muammar Gaddafi aspires to...
Disappeared since 2017 after being captured in November 2011 by an armed group in Zenten and released in 2017, Seif al-Islam...
MAGHREB: Mohammed VI calls on Algeria and Morocco to overcome their differences
It is a strong political marker and a moment much awaited by the Moroccans that the traditional throne speech, delivered every...
TUNISIA – Dismissal of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi
After a series of demonstrations against the rulers in Tunisia on Sunday, July 25, 2021, the President of the Republic Kaïs...
LIBYA – five women ministers in the new government
With the establishment of a new government of national unity with the presence of five women ministers, Libya has made great...
EGYPT – State protests accusations of human rights abuses
The Egyptian government is struggling to digest accusations of human rights violations brought by 31 countries to the United Nations (UN)...
LIBYA – The parliament will consider the vote of confidence for the new government...
The Libyan parliament will discuss holding a confidence vote on the new unified government for the divided country on 8 March,...
ALGERIA – Partial reshuffle of government and dissolution of Parliament
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune proceeded, Sunday, February 21, 2021, to a partial reshuffle of his government. He also dissolved the lower house...
ALGERIA: President Abdelmadjid Tebboune dissolves Parliament and thanks Hirak activists
The Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, announced Thursday, February 18, in a speech to the Nation, the dissolution of Parliament. The head of...
ALGERIA: Celebration of the second anniversary of Hirak
The Algerian city of Kherrata is preparing to celebrate the second anniversary of the Hirak, the first big march against the...
LIBYA: UN calls for rapid formation of an inclusive government
The inter-Ibyan political dialogue announced on Tuesday, 09 February, that it had reached an agreement on a new unified interim executive...
ALGERIAN WAR 1954/1962: The Stora report delivered to France, the Elysée refuses to apologize
On Wednesday 20 January 2021, the French historian Benjamin Stora submitted his report on the France-Algeria memory. If the Elysée Palace consents...
TUNISIA: President Kaïs Saïed calls for calm after three days of rioting
Due to the economic and social crisis in the country exacerbated by the current pandemic, the Tunisian population was regularly on...
TUNISIA: 10 years later, the revolution remains in memory
Tunisians still remember the starting point of the revolution called "Jasmine Revolution" which precipitated the departure of the then President of...
ALGERIA: President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returns to Germany for treatment
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 75, is hospitalized again in Germany for treatment. According to information from the Presidency of the Republic, he...
EGYPTE : President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi received by Emmanuel Macron
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi arrived in Paris on Sunday, December 6, for a state visit against a backdrop of controversy....
ALGERIA: Karim Tabbou sentenced to one year in prison with suspended sentence
Karim Tabou, a prominent figure in the protest movement in Algeria, was sentenced on Monday 07 December 2020 to a one-year...
LIBYA: The deputies of the governments of East and West say “no” to the...
The consensus was not obvious, it took five days of negotiations on Moroccan soil to reach an agreement between the representatives...
EGYPT: Voting day for the legislative elections
This is the parliamentary elections in Egypt. Polling stations opened on Saturday, October 24, 2020. An election without much stake. The...
TUNISIA: 200,000 cases of Covid-19, says former health minister Samira Merai
Tunisia has 200,000 cases of people infected with the coronavirus, according to former health minister Samira Merai. These claims were made on Thursday,...
ALGERIA: President Abdelmadjid Tebboune receives French Foreign Minister
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves le Drian was received by the President of the Algerian Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune Thursday,...
TUNISIA: Dismissal of Walid Al-Zaidi
The Minister of Culture Walid al-Zaidi was thanked by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi this Tuesday, October 6, 2020. At issue: his refusal...
ALGERIA: Karim Tabbou: «My release is an event but that of Algeria is a...
The figure of the popular movement (Hirak) Karim Tabbou was released this Thursday from the prison of Kolea (Tipaza). The political activist was provisionally...
MAROCCO : HM King Mohammed VI opened new horizons for Morocco (Talaâ Saoud Atlassi)
His Majesty King Mohammed VI, upon his accession to the Throne, opened new horizons for Morocco by initiating several structural reforms, said the President...
LIBYA: Khalifa Haftar calls himself the new leader.
Marshal Khalifa Haftar proclaimed himself the sole leader of Libya, explaining that he had responded to a mandate from the people that judged him...
ALGERIA : The sentences confirmed by the Court of Algiers: Ouyahia and Sellal sentenced...
Justice confirmed yesterday the prison terms against two former prime ministers, Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal, prosecuted in the case of car assembly and...
EGYPT: Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi says Egypt manages coronavirus with “transparency”
President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said on Sunday that Egypt was managing the new coronavirus epidemic "transparently", denying the accusations of opacity that the authorities...
LIBYA: The UN envoy denounces a violation of the Berlin agreements.
At the international conference in Berlin on January 12, 2020, the leaders of eleven countries had promised to respect the embargo on arms supplies...
ALGERIA: Abdelmadjid Tebboune was sworn in.
Elected with 58.13% of the votes in the elections of December 12, 2019, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 74, is officially President of the Republic for a...
TUNISIA: President Kais Saied sworn in.
Out largely victorious in the second round of presidential elections on October 13, 2019 with 72.71 votes, President Kais Saied was sworn in this...
TUNISIA: Kais Saïed elected President of the Republic.
The Independent Higher Authority for Elections (ISIE) confirmed the tendencies of the second round. The official results published Monday, October 14, 2019, Kais Saïed...
TUNISIA: The polls are favorable to Kais Saïed.
The second round of presidential elections in Tunisia was held this Sunday, October 13, 2019. would be largely in the lead and could therefore...
TUNISIA: Candidate Nabil Karoui is free.
The Tunisian Court of Cassation demanded the release of Nabil Karoui this Wednesday, October 9, 2019 in the afternoon. The politician was detained in...
TUNISIA: Muslim Ennahdha Party Wins Elections.
The first estimates of the parliamentary elections of October 6, 2019 would be favorable to Ennahdha, the party of the Islamist movement, arrived in...
