African utility week

Cracks Appearing in Algiers-Moscow Relations following Ukraine’s Support to Tuareg Separatists in Mali

Russia is reportedly angry with Algeria, its traditional ally, for failing to tip it off over the support provided by Ukraine’s military intelligence to a coalition of Tuareg separatists and jihadists who fought the Wagner group and Malian armed forces near Algerian border last week. According to press reports, tensions running high between the two […]

East Africa’s weakening currencies don’t improve trade balances, defying economic theories

The depreciation of all domestic currencies in the East African region over the past year has not led — in a defiance of conventional economic theory and expectations of regional economists — to the improvement in trade balances, putting more pressure on foreign exchange rates. The depreciation of a country’s currency is supposed to make […]

Algerian news agency continues its fake news monologue

Algerian news agency refuses to pull its head from the sand as it continues to recycle fake news on an imaginary war in the Sahara. In a recent story, the agency said that Morocco refuses to acknowledge that there is war in the Sahara because that would entail recognizing the Polisario. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser […]