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EGYPT: Former President Mohamed Morsi has passed away.
Victim of a malaise in full court appearance. The news was announced by Egyptian state television this Monday, June 17, 2019. Mohamed Morsi, in...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
TUNISIA: President Beji Caid Essebsi is dead.
The first democratically elected president, Béji Caïd Essebsi died Thursday, July 25, 2019 at the Military Hospital of Tunis at the age of 92...
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...
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...
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...
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: Elections advanced after the death of President Beji Caid Essebsi.
This Thursday, July 25, 2019, disappears President Beji Caid Essebsi. The first democratically elected president. A turning point in the socio-political history of the...
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...
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...
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....
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...
ALGERIA: Culture Minister Meriem Merdaci resigns.
This Saturday, August 24, 2019, the Algerian Minister of Culture, Meriem Merdaci, presented his resignation following a jostling at the entrance of the Stadium...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EGYPT: Reception of 50 Russian fighter jets.
Used by the air forces of China, Indonesia and Algeria, the MIG Sukhoi Su-35 are fighter planes that will allow Egypt to enhance its...
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...
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...
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...
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...
TUNISIA: Presidential Election.
More than 7 million Tunisians are called to go to the polls this Sunday, September 15, 2019 to elect their new President of the...
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....
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...
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...
TUNISIA: Kaïs Saïed and Nabil Karoui towards a second round according to Sigma Conseil...
Tunisian voters were called to the polls this Sunday, September 15, 2019 to elect a new president. Candidates Saeed and Karoui among the twenty-six...
ALGERIA – Former President Bouteflika’s younger brother sentenced to two years in prison
The Algerian judiciary imposed a two-year prison sentence against the brother of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika , who died on 17...
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: 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...
TUNISIA: Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dies at the age of 83.
President of the Tunisian Republic from November 7, 1987 to January 14, 2011, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has died on Thursday, September 19,...
LIBYA – Morocco welcomes appointment of new UN envoy
Morocco welcomed on Sunday the appointment by Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, of Senegalese Abdoulaye Bathily as Special...
