Kenya has declared a three-day mourning following a helicopter crush that killed chief of staff Francis Ogolla and nine other people on board. Only two people survived the crash which occurred soon after take-off west of the country, President William Ruto said. Ogolla departed Nairobi on Thursday to visit troops in the North Rift region […]
The sinking oil and gas revenues of Algeria no longer make it an “oil country” on par with Libya or Gulf countries, wrote financial news agency Bloomberg. Bloomberg, citing a number of Algerian experts and former officials warning of the dwindling export capacity of the country, stated that in ten years Algeria will be incapable […]
US Republican Senator Ted Cruz renewed calls for closer scrutiny of the Polisario Front, raising concerns over the growing ties between the Algeria-backed separatist movement and Iran during a Senate hearing on counterterrorism in Africa. Speaking at a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on April 21, Cruz warned that cooperation between Iran and the […]
