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Endless rule or end of an era? — Cameroon’s 92-year-old president seeks eighth term

President Paul Biya, Africa’s second-longest serving leader and the world’s oldest head of state at 92, has confirmed his candidacy for Cameroon’s 12 October presidential election. The announcement, made via social media, ends months of speculation about his political future and reignites debate over the country’s democratic stagnation. “I am a candidate in the presidential […]

Autonomy Initiative, the ‘One and Only’ solution to regional dispute over Sahara (Hilale)

The Morocco-proposed autonomy initiative, within the framework of the Kingdom’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty, is the “One and Only” solution to the artificial regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, stressed, Tuesday in New York, the permanent representative of Morocco to the United Nations, Omar Hilale. In Morocco’s address during the general debate of the […]

Algeria: IMF Predicts Economic Stagnation

IMF’s economic predictions for Algeria augur no growth for 2016 while forecast for 2017 signals further slump in the country’s economy with GDP expected to go down to 2.9 per cent, with payment balance estimated at 16.2 per cent of the GDP. 2016 predictions for growth of the Algerian economy according to the International Monetary […]