Students poured to the streets of Algiers after ailing President Bouteflika announced Monday in a letter that he will not run for presidential elections, which were initially scheduled for April but were postponed to an unknown date. Bouteflika, 82, who returned to his country on Sunday was seen in a rare public appearance in the […]
The current resurgence in piracy off the Somali coast, will likely put additional pressure on the already strained global shipping industry and increase the militarization of the western Indian Ocean, which could in turn further escalate geopolitical tensions between India and China, says a latest analysis by Stratfor. Though such piracy’s impact will likely be […]
Uganda has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicenter of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, with the government asserting its response to the disease was succeeding. The extension is “to further sustain the gains in control of Ebola that we have made, and to protect the rest of the […]
