Mahjoub El Haiba

Angola, DRC and Zambia move towards jointly managing key trade corridor

Angola, Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed to establish a new agency that will oversee the development and joint management of a trade corridor to and from the Atlantic Ocean port of Lobito, which could mean lost business for South African ports. The Lobito Corridor Management Institution will facilitate trade from Zambia […]

Algeria to Re-open Embassy in Libya Soon

The Algerian Foreign Minister informed lawmakers Tuesday that the North African country’s embassy in Tripoli will reopen soon. “Algeria will be in Tripoli soon,” Abdelkader Messahel told the Algerian parliament. However, Messahel made a similar announcement last year following a visit in Tripoli, but the embassy is still closed. Algeria closed its embassy in 2014, […]

Polisario, ‘a Cold War Relic’- Spanish Writer

The Polisario is a ‘totalitarian organization’, representing an ideological anachronism peculiar to the Cold War era, said Spanish writer Jose Mariia Lizundia in an opinion article on La Provincia. The Polisario “is a myth created by some Sahraoui students in Moroccan universities in the 1970s in connivance with leftist Spanish military officials of the Franco […]