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The Demise of Algeria’s Arab Diplomacy

The frail health of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is reflected in the Algerian diplomacy that has lost track as it continues to accumulate failures on multiple fronts. Algiers’s Arab diplomacy after its participation in the Arab league’s 28th Summit in Amman shows an inaudible voice and most of all an incapacity to forge new alliances in […]

Libya: Head of UNSMIL deplores Monday airstrike against biscuit factory

Special UN Representative and head of the UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ghassan Salamé has deplored the airstrike slammed into a biscuit factory in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, while people were at work. Addressing the UN Security Council Monday via videoconference from the Libyan capital, he said he was “angry and sad” by the new mass […]

Russia to build spaceports in friendly African states as world powers jostle for influence

Russia has offered to construct spaceports on the territory of friendly African nations, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, and others, just as the competition among the great powers heats up as they jostle over who will control rocket launch sites projects across the continent. Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, which is one of the foreign investors […]