Mali warns to defend itself against alleged French sovereignty violations

Mali’s military government would exercise its right to self-defense if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security, Mali’s foreign affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop warned on Tuesday (18 October). During a speech delivered at a United Nations Security Council briefing on Mali in New York, Diop accused France of violating Malian […]

Algeria: Opposition party boycotts presidential election for harassment & unfair electoral competition

Algeria’s opposition party, the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), has announced its decision to boycott the upcoming presidential election of Sept.07 due to lack of fair & free electoral competition and growing crackdown on political activists and journalists. In a statement published Monday July 8 by Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, the party leader, Othman Mazouz […]

Algeria : recovering faith with the new energy law

Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi announced that there will be new biddings for the exploration of oil and gas in the “coming weeks”.  The state has declared that it discovered 32 oil and gas wells last year. The ‘’In Amenas’’ gas plant attack in 2013 left more than 40 employees dead and has terrorized most of […]