Moroccan health minister Khalid-Ait-Taleb

Congo’s president and Blinken discuss escalating tensions with Rwanda

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday (9 August), is expected to raise concerns about tensions with neighboring Rwanda that could spread instability in the region and also about Russia and China’s access to rare earth minerals in the central-west Africa country. Blinken’s trip to Congo […]

Corruption, sluggish growth widen crack in South Africa’s ANC edifice

The ANC which has been ruling south Africa since the end of the Apartheid regime is in tatters. Ahead of general elections in May, senior leaders are jumping from the sinking ANC ship. One of the party leaders and former senior government minister in South Africa Nathi Nhleko said, before resigning, it was “painful” to […]

Tunisia: Opposition figure Jaouhar Ben Mbarek begins hunger strike over trial conditions

Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a prominent opposition figure in Tunisia, has started a hunger strike to protest his exclusion from his own trial proceedings. Arrested in February 2023 over alleged state conspiracy charges, Ben Mbarek is one of dozens of political figures, journalists, and activists who have been detained in a crackdown on dissent under President […]