When people started dying of Covid-19 in Algeria in March, protesters called a halt to the weekly demonstrations that had rocked the country for more than a year and toppled President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. With the streets …
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Tags : Algeria, coronavirus, covid 19, pandemic, protests,
Algerians resumed Monday anti-regime protests in several cities in support of detainees of the “Hirak” movement, defying the ban of demonstrations during the coronavirus pandemic. The protests took place during the Eid Al-Fitr celebrations…
Read more from the source : Middle East Online
Tags : Algeria, Hirak, protests, covid 19, coronavirus,
There has been mildly encouraging news out of Libya in recent months, almost nine years after the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi led to chaos rather than an improvement in governance and stability. The international community has ignored many chances to help the country get back on…
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Oil & Gas-rich Libya has been in chaos since the Arab spring movement and NATO bombing campaign that toppled Gaddafi in 2011. Attempts to build a democratic state after Gaddafi fell disintegrated into a new Libyan Civil War between rival governments in 2014. Since then the fighting…
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Tags : Libya, satellite imagery,
During a visit by Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune to the Ministry of National Defence in Algiers on June 2, the Army’s chief of staff, Major General Said Chengriha, spoke highly of the proposed preliminary draft to revise…
Read more from the source : The Arab Weekly
Tags : Algeria, Libya crisis, diplomacy,
Since Morocco’s King Mohammed VI visited Abuja in December 2016, several meetings have followed to assess the technical and economic viability of the project. Two protocols of the agreement have been signed between Morocco and Nigeria, discussing the construction of a gas…
Read more from the source : Security Distiller
Tags : Morocco, Nigeria, gas pipeline,
The yearlong offensive on Tripoli by Khalifa Haftar’s forces has suffered fatal setbacks, and Libya’s conflicts are changing shape. Russia’s and Turkey’s attempts at carving out spheres of influence are bound to collide with the interests of other foreign powers and with the fluidity of Libya’s political…
Read more from the source : German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Tags : Libya, Khalifa Haftar, Russia, Turkey,
Rwandan Foreign Affairs minister, Dr Vincent Biruta held a telephone conversation on Thursday with Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs Noureddine Erray to discuss the two countries’ role in global cooperation against COVID-19. The two sides…
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Tags : Tunisia, Rwanda, cooperation, bilateral relations,
In my blogpost on the early stages of the Covid-19 epidemic in North Africa, I wrote that: ‘Libya is a special case, as fighting has continued there ever since the overthrow of President Ghaddafi in 2011. The country is divided between the forces loyal to the Tripoli-based UN-backed Government of…
Read more from the source : Review of African Political Economy
Tags : Libya, GNA, LNA, Haftar,
On 26 February 2020, the Tunisian Assembly of the Representatives of the People voted in a government led by Elyes Fakhfakh. The new prime minister is a 48-year-old from Tunis, an engineer by training and this is his third term in …
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Tags : Tunisia, government, Elyes Fakhfakh,