Budapest – Visegrád V4 Group + morocco ministerial meeting

Tunisia: Nidaa Tounes weathering as 31 MPs resign

After deciding last Wednesday to suspend their membership in Nidaa Tounes, the 31 members of parliament (MP) on Monday resigned from the party and vowed to form an independent group “to protest the non-democratic way in which the party has been managed” said Hassouna Nasfi, one of the protesting deputies. The resignation will reduce the […]

Tunisia’s second free presidential election tests young democracy

Tunisia holds its second free presidential elections since the Arab Spring revolt that ousted a long-serving president, putting the country on a rocky road to democratic consolidation in an unstable regional context where spillovers of infighting in Libya and Algeria’s latent terrorist groups have taken a toll on the Tunisian economy. Tunisians cast ballots on […]

Algerian regime, main instigator of instability in Sahel, to be held accountable

The Algerian military regime, de facto ruler, is using an array of tactics to maintain its grip on decades-long power. Its strategy consists of bringing and fueling chaos, divisions, separatism and conflicts to perpetuate its illegitimate and oppressive ruling. To muzzle political opponents and pro-democracy militants, the Algerian authorities resort to foreign conspiracy rhetoric and […]