In power since 1999, Abdelaziz Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013 that affected his ability to walk and to speak. Nailed in a wheelchair, he has hardly made any public appearances since then. Despite his poor health condition, the official news agency APS announced that Bouteflika would run for a fifth term in the presidential […]
King Mohammed VI has sent messages to King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia and to Bahrain’s ruler, King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa. The message to the Saudi King was handed over on Wednesday at the Al Yamamah Palace in Riyadh, by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. During this audience, Bourita conveyed to the Custodian […]
President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has named Tarek Amer as presidential adviser after the latter resigned from his job that he was supposed to hold for another year. Local media Gate Ahram has revealed that al-Sisi accepted his resignation as Governor of the central bank and appointed him as close aide. Amer submitted his resignation to the […]
