This 5 July marks 60 years since Algeria got its independence from France, after an occupation that lasted over 13 decades, from 1830 until 1962, only to end with...

In a statement issued in the earlier hours of 20 June, Stephanie Williams, the United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, drew the curtain on the Cairo talks between Libyan...

What is behind the sudden rush by four Arab states to normalise relations with Israel after decades of animosity, and what do countries like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is 58 years old this June, while the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 110th birthday last January. They are two of the longest...

President Kais Saied of Tunisia is still going, sometimes with an apparent strength, despite all the rejections and disdain he has received lately from different political quarters inside the...

The British Empire once ruled over a quarter of the world's population, from North America to India and from interior Africa to the Middle East. This June, the UK...

In the shadows of the war in Ukraine the Biden-Harris administration has released what amounts to a policy – but less than a detailed strategy – paper aimed at...

The European colonisation rush of conquering other peoples across the world had its own narrative and justifications to make its case for itself, and for its own public opinion...

According to the United Nations roadmap adopted in November 2020, Libyans should have cast their votes to elect a legislative and president on 24 December, 2021, but that did...

Over the last few months, Libya's Internal Security Agency (ISA) has rounded up seven young Libyans, accusing them of very serious crimes including that of apostasy, contempt of Islam...

Whether France is voting, commemorating D-day or debating French identity in terms of Republic Values, Algeria is always present in some way. It is almost impossible to discuss anything...

NATO as an organisation and through its thirty individual members has been doing its utmost to help Ukraine against Russia's invasion ever since Moscow launched its attack in February....

It is inconceivable that last week's Negev Summit could have taken place without Saudi Arabia not only knowing about the meeting but also blessing it. Since the Abraham Accords...

The current political impasse in Libya is unlikely to be solved over the next two months. By June, it is likely to become even more complicated because the United...

On 2 March, 141 UN member states voted to "condemn" Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, calling it a serious violation of the UN Charter. Thirty-five countries abstained or...

Over the last two weeks, the United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has been under sustained attacks across social media. Williams, who returned to Libya last December,...

On 1 March, Libya's Tobruk-based Parliament voted in a new cabinet led by former Interior Minister, Fathi Bashaga, and its 29 ministers, six State Ministers and three Deputy Prime...

Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, going on for over a week now, has been condemned across the world. However, there are countries that had to walk a very...

Late last January, French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said that Mali's new authorities was "illegitimate and takes irresponsible measures" describing the military government in Bamako as "out of...

African Heads of States and governments meeting at the African Union's Summit (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 5 February decided to revoke Israel's observer status to the continental...

The reappointment, earlier last December, of Stephanie Williams as Special Advisor on Libya to the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, came at a critical moment for the political process...

On Monday, 1 February, Libya's Tobruk based parliament started accepting nominations for the post of Prime Minister to replace the current caretaker premier, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, in what is...

Already exhausted in the Syrian mediation efforts, Staffan de Mistura, has just been appointed, by the United Nations Secretary-General, as his envoy to Western Sahara's decades' long dispute. Mr....

Fighting corruption in state institutions and the public sector remains the top priority in Algeria this year as it hopes to improve the domestic situation and prevent the return...

Tunisia began 2022 just as troubled as it ended the previous year, in which the milestone was marked on 25 July by a President who believed, and still does,...

The handouts are not meant as loans to be paid back, but simply free money given to people to help them get married. Governments, around the world, help people...

On 24 December, the United Kingdom embassy in Tripoli, Libya, issued a statement on its Twitter and Facebook accounts that, at first, looked like a routine statement on developments...

A delegation of seven Libyan parliamentarians, headed by deputy speaker Fawzi Al-Nuwairi, visited Ankara last week and met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in what is seen as a...

On 6 December, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, appointed Stephanie Williams, nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by some Libyan politicians, as his Special Advisor on Libya, SASG on...

If Libyans really go to the polls as planned, on 24 December, it will be a moment of history-making and a new reality in the conflict ravaged country. The...

Tunisia's President, Kais Saied, vehemently denies what he did in Tunisia is, literally, a constitutional coup, as his adversaries claim. The President might feel comfortable if we describe his...

It has been announced that 98 individuals, including two women, submitted their applications to contest Libya's 24 December presidential election. The list included a militia-linked suspect, Libya's top comedian,...