President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, the world’s longest-standing leader, is running for office again in Sunday elections, as he wants to extend his 43-year authoritarian rule in the oil-rich Central African nation. His party confirmed that Obiang would run in the elections to be held on Sunday (20 November). The world’s longest-standing president is […]
Tunisian authorities have detained prominent journalist Zied El Hani over comments posted on social media, reviving alarms among press freedom advocates who say President Kais Saied’s government is intensifying its campaign against independent media nearly five years after his power grab. El Hani was taken into custody last week after appearing before the National Guard’s […]
Cairo could soon be occupying its seat at the African Union (AU) in October according to a member of the high level panel on Egypt. The panel is headed by former Malian President, Alpha Oumar Konare, and it visited Egypt in order to have a firsthand knowledge of the political crisis in Egypt and the […]
