Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita had plenty of reasons to be cheerful after getting the red-carpet treatment from the European Union during his late-June visit. Morocco's foreign mi...

When Libya's eastern military strongman, General Khalifa Haftar, launched his offensive to capture Tripoli on 4 April, he hoped for a blitzkrieg. What he got was a battle of attrit...

Opposition leaders were left with much to ponder after the 22 June presidential election handed Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani outright victory on the first ballot with 52% of th...

A political class absorbed by the painfully long run-up to parliamentary elections on 6 October and the presidential poll on 17 November has suddenly found itself with a surprise o...

Once, four-time premier Ahmed Ouyahia was seen as a possible successor to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Likewise, Boutef's campaign manager and ex-premier Abdelmalek Sellal. With...

Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani has reason to be confident as he approaches presidential elections on 22 June. An ally of retiring President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the Defence M...

Horst Köhler's appointment as the UN Secretary-General António Guterres's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara in July 2017 was welcomed by Morocco, for whom the former German Presid...

Deputy Defence Minister and Chief of Staff Lt Gen Ahmed Gaïd Salah is continuing a purge of Algeria's elite to try to persuade demonstrators, who have been filling the streets...

Four years of efforts by the UN to end the crisis in Libya have been rendered almost futile by eastern-based strongman, General Khalifa Haftar. On 4 April, two months after his for...

It has been a week of two halves for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi. It ended with a celebration at the Heliopolis Presidential Palace of the vote in parliament on 16 April...