Libya: Clashes continue in Benghazi after liberation

Four days after Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar announced that the Libyan National Army (LNA) has liberated the city of Benghazi from terrorism, clashes continued till Sunday in the Sidi Akribesh neighborhood of the Sabri district with at least 20 soldiers killed by “terrorists” according to Colonel Miloud Zwei, LNA spokesman. Army sources claimed on Sunday […]

ECOWAS countries join efforts to fight Covid-19 pandemic

The member countries of ECOWAS have adopted a number of measures to jointly fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including devoting at least 15% of their annual budgets to strengthen health care systems, as they did during the Ebola epidemic few years ago. During a video-conference, chaired by President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou, the heads of state […]

Algeria’s Zero-sum Game Attitude towards Maghreb Union Backfires

Only words but no action. That sums Algeria’s attitude towards any initiative to reinvigorate the Maghreb. Algeria, which maintains borders closed with Morocco despite calls from Rabat to normalize relations, went further in its obsession of containing Morocco by adopting self-defeating strategies in the Sahel. Governing behind the curtain of a dead-living president, the deep […]