As declared in the constitution, Algeria is a Sunni Islamic State. Non-religious groups meet in secret to avoid state persecution and social approbation. Algeria is a member of the League of Arab States (LAS), as well as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Constitution and government The current constitution was […]

A nation of 107.8 million as of mid-2022. The religious affiliation breakdown is reported to be approximately 90 percent Sunni Muslim and 10 percent Christian. There is limited reliable data on the number of atheists in Egypt. In 2020, some local media outlets quoted estimates from a former Minister of […]

Libya is a North African country of an estimated 6.9 million inhabitants, of which 90-95% are Sunni Muslims.1https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-report-on-international-religious-freedom/libya/ The Amazigh ethnic minority counts some Ibadi Muslims and there are small Christian communities among sub-Saharan African and Egyptian migrants. Libya is the fourth largest African country by area and holds the […]

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country with over 33 million inhabitants, of which 99% are identified as Sunni Muslims, with a small number of Christians, Jews, Shiites, and Baha’is. Judaism is privileged over other religious minorities. Morocco is separated by only 14 km from its northern neighbour, […]

Sudan, once the largest country in Africa, has long suffered from severe ethnic strife and been plagued by internal conflict. The country became independent of British-Egyptian rule in 1956 but wars between the predominantly Christian and Animist south against the predominantly Muslim north eventually led to independence for South Sudan […]

Tunisia has a population of 11.8 Million, of which approximately 99% are Sunni Muslims. The remaining 1% comprises of small Christian, Jewish, Shiite and Baha’i communities. In 2011, Tunisia set in motion the transnational pro-democracy uprising known as the ‘Arab Spring’ when a young vegetable vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself […]