migrants algeria

Financial Times puts South Africa’s infrastructure crisis on spotlight

In addition to electricity blackouts, international media is increasingly deploring South Africa’s infrastructure dysfunctions. Financial Times zoomed on water cuts in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg. “The prolonged outage that has left taps dry across a swath of Johannesburg and the wider Gauteng province signals a deepening crisis in the water system during one of […]

Egypt: 3 army officers sentenced to death in secret trail over plot against al-Sissi

Three Egyptian army officers have been sentenced to death over plotting assassination of President al-Sissi, reports reveal. According to The New Arab quoting Egyptian judicial sources, the three army officers whose names have not been revealed were tried in complete secrecy two weeks ago and were charged for attempting a coup and plotting the assassination […]

Peruvian Lawmakers Reject Proposal to Set up Friendship Group with Polisario

The Peruvian Congress rejected a proposal for the creation of a friendship group with the self-proclaimed separatist entity, the Arab Sahrawi Republic. The refusal by Peruvian lawmakers marks a crushing diplomatic defeat to the polisario’s efforts to re-stablish ties with Peru, which does not recognize the Algerian-backed separatist entity as a state.   Indeed, the […]