Tunisia: HRW decries intensified crackdown on political opposition & civil society

Human Rights Watch has denounced in its 2025 report the escalating repression of critical voices in Tunisia of Kais Saied, saying the authorities undermined the integrity of the October presidential election and carried out politically motivated arrests & arbitrary detentions of prospective challengers before the vote. “It is clear that Tunisian authorities deployed all their […]

Algeria reels under liquidity crisis as dinar crumbles

Queues in Algerian post offices of employees waiting to receive their salaries are getting longer as the country experiences a liquidity crisis combined with higher inflation that hit purchasing power of citizens. The cosmetic measures introduced by the government have not anticipated the cash crisis in the country where the banking system is one of […]

Tripoli-based PM Abdelhamid Dbeibeh removes NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla

Abdelhamid Dbeibeh, one of Libya’s rival Premiers, has sacked the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla, local media Libya Update has learned. Dbeibeh’s administration, which is based in capital Tripoli, replaced Sanalla with Farhat Omar Bengdara, who served as Libya’s Central Bank Governor from 2007 to 2011, the media notes citing a […]