Algeria Lags Behind in World Economic Freedom Report 2017

Algeria has been ranked among the 10 worst performing countries in the 2017 Economic Freedom of the World Report taking the 156th place among 159 nations. Algeria was ranked among the 10 lowest-rated countries in the report on a par with Iran, Chad, Myanmar, Syria, Libya, Argentina, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African […]

SADC leaders slammed for failing to assist troubled Mozambique

Experts and analysts have piled criticism on the leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for “adding fuel to Mozambican fire” and for “failing the people of Mozambique” that has been for weeks engulfed in post-election violence. Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also chair of SADC, has said the regional bloc is ready […]

Rached Ghannouchi handed one-year jail sentence for promoting terrorism

Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s largest political movement Ennahdah, has been sentenced to one-year in prison in absentia for promoting terrorism, one of his lawyers said Monday. Ghannouchi has been in detention since late April and indicted for 19 offenses including terrorism. Monia Bouali, one of Ghannouchi’s lawyers, told Reuters that his client has […]