North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya are all facing increasing water scarcity. They’re also facing the social discontent that comes with it.

Constant turnover in President Kais Saied’s government points to a lack of solutions for Tunisia’s problems.

As working summits go, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s meeting with Libya’s interim prime minister in Tripoli last week seemed like a routine visit. But her meeting a few hours later in Benghazi with the leader of the rival government there underscored the dangers lurking below the surface of the two sides’ calm relations.