A jihadist was sentenced to death for the 2014 kidnapping and beheading of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel in Algeria.
Morocco has surpassed dissent in the kingdom, after a short protest campaign during the Arab Spring.
The trial of the men accused of killing mountain guide instructor Herve Gourdel begins today in Algiers.
Comment: President Biden is well aware of Morocco's strategic importance to the US in the region, and is unlikely to want to destabilise that relationship, writes Samir Bennis.
A delay in the arrival of vaccines has postponed the start of Tunisia’s vaccination campaign.
Demonstrators shouted slogans against the military and the current president in the massive rally in Kherrata, where Hirak protests first broke out in 2019.
Abdelmajdid Tebboune is expected to call for early elections.
In-depth: Human trafficking has been pushed deeper into the shadows by the pandemic, with criminal gangs exploiting the economic fallout from Covid-19.
Citing the bill's marginalising nature against Muslims, Turkish Muslim foundations in France refuse to sign the newly-established Islamic charter that aims to replace some Muslim values with the French ones.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned home after a stay in Germany for surgery following post-coronavirus complications.