Moroccan Saad eddine El Othmany & British Boris Jonhson

Algeria: Abdelmadjid Tebboune wins presidential election

Algeria’s former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won Thursday’s presidential election. He secured 58% of the vote, enough to forego a second round, the electoral body said. The final voter turnout was 40%, the electoral body’s head said in a televised news conference in Algiers. Tebboune, who served as housing minister under Bouteflika and briefly […]

Sahara: Rabat & Washington speeding up joint diplomatic coordination & cooperation

Morocco and the United States are stepping up diplomatic coordination and concertation, building on the latest historic UN Security Council resolution endorsing the Moroccan autonomy in the Sahara under the Kingdom’s sovereignty. Foreign minister Nasser Bourita received in Rabat new U.S. ambassador to Morocco Richard Duke Buchan III who presented copies of his credentials to […]

Washington Near East Policy Institute Sees Bleak Prospects for Bouteflika’s Succession

The failing health of Algeria’s President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, coupled with uncertainties surrounding his successor amid a power struggle within the country’s security apparatus bode ill for Algeria as it braces for a “contested or rocky succession,” the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said in a report. The report, which offers advice to US foreign […]