The Simon Wiesenthal Center has bestowed its International Leadership Award to journalist and writer of Moroccan origin Souad Mekhennet, a Washington Post’s international correspondent. The Moroccan-born journalist to a Moroccan father and a Turkish mother will receive the award on January 14, 2020, at the Los Angeles Tolerance Museum, the US-based Center announced Monday in […]
Tebboune has wrapped up a visit to Russia during which he contradicted himself and drew mockery due to his clumsy praise of Putin. Speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg, Tebboune said Putin is a “friend of the whole of humanity,” an exaggerated statement verging on insanity that made Putin himself raise his […]
Fourteen months after suffering a stroke, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba has opened the central African regional bloc’s extraordinary summit in Libreville. Bongo, 60, is the current chair of the 11-nation Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), a 36-year-old organization meant to forge a common market among its member states. Bongo spoke without notable […]
