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Tunisia : Technocratic government already proving itself

It’s been barely a couple of weeks and Tunisia’s apolitical government, composed of a team of young technocrats, has already started showing high level of competence. The government came with a new approach in dealing with state affairs and the past two weeks have been enough to mark its broad guidelines. The new team unlike […]

AU monitoring team visits Ethiopia’s Tigray to oversee peace deal implementation

African Union and East African officials arrived in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Thursday (29 December) to launch a joint monitoring and verification mechanism for a peace deal signed in November to end the two-year war. The mediating team, led by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as African Union […]

Abandoned in desert: EU accused of migrant ‘dumping’ in North Africa, Sahel

The recently endorsed EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum “is going to run into political and possibly also legal challenges and a largely hostile international setting,” says a new study by the Elcano Royal Institute, while especially left-wing organizations denounce it as “the result of a deliberate EU policy aimed at creating a deterrent effect […]