Algeria’s diplomacy in disarray as money and ideology run dry

As the UN Security Council edges closer to endorsing Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, the Algerian regime has launched a damage control operation of the collapse of its decades-long support for the Polisario front. For a country that once boasted impressive diplomatic clout in the 1970s and 1980s, at the height of the Cold […]

Young People Should be at Heart of Morocco’s Development Model- King Mohammed VI Says

King Mohammed VI of Morocco stressed the need for a new strategy to promote youth employment by putting young people at the heart of the new development model. In a speech on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People, the Monarch called for an integrated youth strategy […]

Senegal’s Economic Tightrope: New President Faces Fiscal Challenges

Senegal’s new president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, is walking a financial tightrope. Just five months into the job, he has called for snap elections on November 17, dissolving the opposition-led parliament. But this political shake-up could not come at a trickier time for the economy. The numbers are not looking great. Economic growth has slowed to […]