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Togo: Africa’s longest dynasty to extend rule

The Togolese ruling party, Union pour la Republique, has chosen incumbent President Faure Gnassingbé as its candidate for elections next month. Togo has been ruled for the past 50 years by the Gnassingbé family, Africa’s most enduring political dynasty. Nearly 95% of Togolese have spent their entire lives ruled by members of the same family. […]

Tunisia: Concerns over Economic, Social Challenges Growing

President Rached Ghannouchi of the Ennahdha political party has called on the country’s National Unity Government to prioritize the “economic challenges facing Tunisia and the upcoming (municipal and local) elections” instead of the political future of a Minister or Prime Minister. Presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place in 2019 but they have […]

Kenya offers to lead UN-backed police mission to restore order in crisis-hit Haiti

After nearly a year of calls from the Haiti’s prime minister for armed intervention from abroad, Kenya is the first country to have now offered to lead a police force to help restore order to the island nation, where gangs that control vast parts of the country’s capital have fomented violence. UN Secretary-General António Guterres […]