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Algeria is hosting the 31st summit of the largest annual Arab conference as the region battles to find common ground over a series of divisive issues. It takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The 22-member Arab League last held its summit in 2019. In the years since, new challenges have drastically reshaped the region’s agenda. The establishment of diplomatic ties between Israel and four more Arab League countries, as well as the fallout of the war in Ukraine, are expected to take center stage in this year’s summit. The event provides an opportunity for Africa’s territorially largest cou...

Algeria is hosting the 31st summit of the largest annual Arab conference as the region battles to find common ground over a series of divisive issues

The event provides an opportunity for Africa's largest country — by territory — to showcase its leadership in the Arab world

Tunisia's president fires defence minister amid political upheaval Issued on: 27/07/2021 - 04:54 FILE PHOTO: A supporter of Tunisia's biggest political party, the moderate Islamist Ennahda, scuffles with a police officer near the parliament building in Tunis, Tunisia July 26, 2021. © Zoubeir Souissi, Reuters 7 min Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked the defence minister Monday, a day after ousting the prime minister and suspending parliament, plunging the young democracy into constitutional crisis in the midst of a pandemic. ...

Protests banned and political activists and journalists detained. Lawyers and judges reprimanded or otherwise targeted, ostensibly for their ties to a grassroots protest movement demanding profound political change. As Algeria readies for legislative elections this month, the government is tightening its grip, rights groups and others say, with a raft of detentions and even prison…