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DRC: 2023 defense budget increased 300-fold amid confrontation with rebel groups

The Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has increased by 300 per cent its defense budget for 2023 to $1 billion in view of “ramping up the power of the armed forces and to revamp military industry”.   The defense budget accounts for 10.4 per cent of the total budge put at $14.6 billion. This budget […]

Senegal: court bars opposition leaders from presidential vote

Two leading opposition figures have been barred from running in presidential elections next month, the Constitutional Council said on Monday. Karim Wade, the son of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and Khalifa Sall, a former mayor of Dakar are barred from running the Feb. 24 poll as they were both jailed for graft and corruption […]

Morocco warns against the terrorism-separatism nexus before ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly

Morocco has warned against the terrorism-separatism nexus before the 44th ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly currently held in Jakarta saying this nexus threatens the territorial integrity of States. The alarm was sounded by Rachid Talbi Alami, Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives, which is participating in this conference in its capacity as an observer member of […]