The Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, went this year to French-Algerian writer, Kamal Daoud, for his novel “Houris,” set during Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s. The novel has stirred the anger of the military regime in Algiers, whose leaders have had a role in the civil war that opposed the government to […]
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu banned his ministers from traveling abroad on public money for three months to cut costs and travel expenses. The measure followed scant criticism on social media of his government after sending a delegation of 400 people to COP28 on public money. With 15 trips since he took power, Tinubu’s trips cost […]
King Mohammed VI stressed the need for a south-south cooperation approach in Africa to mainstream good governance at the institutional, economic and societal level as a bulwark against “afro-pessimism”. The call was made in a speech read out on the Monarch’s behalf by Royal Advisor André Azoulay at the Governance Weekend held in Marrakech by […]
