South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar

Algeria: President, army at tug of war

Algeria is at the mercy of an internal war between its president Abbdelmadjid Tebboune and the army which had backed the ascension to power of the 75-year old man, currently in Germany for medical treatment.   Abdelmadjid Tebboune is unpopular in Algeria and is considered an illegitimate president appointed by the military. His illegitimacy was […]

Morocco Launches National Desalination Industry with Target to Double Local Content to 70% by 2030

Morocco has formalized a landmark framework agreement to build a nationally integrated seawater desalination industry, a move that combines the country’s water security imperative with an explicit industrial sovereignty objective. The accord, signed with the sector’s principal actors and reported by L’Économiste on Tuesday, sets an objective of raising the local integration rate in desalination […]

DRC: Seventy armed groups signed cessation hostilities agreement in South Kivu

Nearly 70 armed groups gathered for three days in Murhesa, north of provincial capital Bukavu, to sign a new agreement on cessation of hostilities in DR Congo, under the aegis of three NGOs specializing in conflict management. Around 70 armed groups have agreed to a “cessation of hostilities” in DR Congo’s South Kivu province, a […]