AfCFTA at Five: Africa’s free trade dream faces reality check

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) marks its fifth anniversary amid growing concerns about its implementation pace and effectiveness. Despite ambitious goals to create a unified market of 1.3 billion people and generate $450 billion in additional revenue by 2035, the agreement faces substantial obstacles in translating vision into reality. Infrastructure deficiencies pose a […]

Morocco angry at Saudi Arabia’s reckless diplomacy

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia for consultations in protest seemingly over a documentary in Saudi channel Al Arabiya showing support for the separatist thesis in the Sahara, le360 reported. The well-informed news website quoted Morocco’s ambassador to Riyadh Mustafa Mansouri confirming news relayed by the AP news agency which quoted an anonymous […]

More & more voices decry appalling situation in Tindouf camps

Experts, journalists and civil society activists continue to decry the appalling situation of the population sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps in Algeria.   On Saturday, it was from Dakhla that Spanish political expert Pedro Ignacio Altamirano called for “the urgent opening of a humanitarian corridor” in order to allow the populations in captivity in […]