The Togolese ruling party, Union pour la Republique, has chosen incumbent President Faure Gnassingbé as its candidate for elections next month. Togo has been ruled for the past 50 years by the Gnassingbé family, Africa’s most enduring political dynasty. Nearly 95% of Togolese have spent their entire lives ruled by members of the same family. […]
The one persistent feature of Iranian foreign policy since the toppling of the Shah in 1979 was its rather grandiose optimism about its own ascendance to a hegemonic role in the Middle East. The ayatollah’s Islamic Republic never considered the revolution it had kidnapped to turn inward. Instead, the leaders of the Islamic Republic of […]
The International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) has given Morocco the award of “Africa’s Best Golf Tourism Destination of the Year” at an event in Malaga celebrating the country’s diversified golf resorts and courses scattered across the country. The distinction was awarded following a vote by 660 golf operators who took into account the […]
