King Mohammed VI of Morocco

Post-election deadlock: Is a PJD, PAM rapprochement in sight?

Saad Dine El Othmani of the moderate Islamist PJD party, who was appointed by the King Head of the Government Friday, seems to have broken away with the methods and the tense rhetoric adopted by his predecessor Abdelilah Benkirane whose consultations to form a new cabinet ended with a political deadlock unprecedented in Morocco’s history. […]

Tunisia: Opposition figure Jaouhar Ben Mbarek begins hunger strike over trial conditions

Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a prominent opposition figure in Tunisia, has started a hunger strike to protest his exclusion from his own trial proceedings. Arrested in February 2023 over alleged state conspiracy charges, Ben Mbarek is one of dozens of political figures, journalists, and activists who have been detained in a crackdown on dissent under President […]

Niger: two policemen killed in new attack  

Two police officers were killed and another injured on Monday in an attack on a police station in the Tillabéri region in western Niger. Armed men, riding a dozen motorcycles, carried out the assault. Other attacks reported in the regions of Diffa (southeast) and Tillabéri (west), between Thursday and Friday killed at least thirteen people […]