Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned home after a stay in Germany for surgery following post-coronavirus complications.
Youths blocked roads in Tunisia's marginalised Tataouine region to protest the government's inability to provide work and investment.
Comment: President Macron's truth and reconciliation project will fail if it doesn't acknowledge the toxic legacy of France's nuclear projects in colonial Algeria, writes Malia Bouattia.
Morocco has denied that three of its soldiers were killed by the Polisario Front, casting the claim as propaganda.
The Democracy Index in 2020 has hit an all-time low since the index was first produced in 2006.
Police have launched an investigation into the poisoning.
France must "shoulder its historic responsibilities" for 1960s nuclear test sites in Algeria, a senior Algerian military official said in the influential army monthly El Djeich.
The public prosecutor at a court in Algiers ordered an inquiry Sunday after a student alleged security forces had tortured him in custody, a statement said.
Arrested during a peaceful protest in Alger in November 2019, Walid Nekiche described to local newspaper the abuses he underwent until his release on February 1.
The political activist who was arrested in Algeria is suffering in prison and in need urgent healthcare, his wife says.