Opposition members in Guinea-Bissau have accused the West African head of state of plotting to establish a dictatorship, claiming that the incumbent, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, is bringing, step by step, the country’s most important powers under his control. Since elected president of Guinea-Bissau three years ago, Sissoco, as he is popularly known, has systematically clashed […]
Abir Moussi, Tunisia’s top female politician and leader of the opposition Free Destourian Party has laid into the country’s Prime Minister Najla Bouden calling her cabinet illegitimate and corrupt “It is running the country outside legal frameworks and without any financial and administrative control after the dissolution of the parliament and constitutional bodies by President […]
Jordan, a country without oil or experiencing a self-destructive civil war, stands on a precipice. Its current ‘greatest’ challenge, the Syrian conflict, is showing the first signs of resolution and it now has a chance to recover from the almost overwhelming forces of refugee migration. The difficulty of integrating its new refugee population into wider […]
