Rescuers have found more than 2,000 bodies as of Wednesday in the wreckage of a Libyan city where floodwaters broke dams and washed away neighborhoods. Officials fear the death toll could exceed 5,000 in the nation made vulnerable by years of turmoil and neglect.
Relief workers are responding to dual disasters in North Africa. The death toll in the Morocco earthquake has topped 2,900 while Libya counts at least 5,300 killed in catastrophic flooding.
Kais Saied has been the President of Tunisia since 2019. Just a few short years ago, Saied was a constitutional law professor, and Tunisia was seen as the only success story of the uprisings known as the Arab Spring. Now, Tunisia is slipping back into autocracy.
Humanitarian implications are dire, clearly. And not just for Americans but clearly for millions of Sudanese.
Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center discusses the Egyptian economy, the role of the military, and the prospects for its new deal with the IMF.
Tunisia is in the process of negotiating a much needed loan from the IMF.
It really takes Tunisia away from the 2014 constitution. It concentrates all the power in the hands of the presidency, removes checks and balances, and there's no way to remove the president which is really troubling.
Tunisia had done very well in building its political institutions and building the backbone of a democracy over the past decade but they failed to address the economic challenges the country was facing.
The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to reverberate in the Middle East and around the world.
A discussion of the Libyan presidential elections ahead of a landmark vote.