Algeria gained its independence after an armed struggle in which Morocco and Tunisia played a pivotal role. But, after its independence, a military junta turned its back to its neighbors and adopted a territorial consolidation policy based on defending the colonial border legacy. Post-independent Algiers forced Tunisia to relinquish its claims to border areas amputated […]
Togo’s opposition has vowed to “reinvent” itself after winning just five seats in the country’s legislative elections held on 29 April, while the ruling Union for the Republic party (UNIR) has clinched a sweeping victory. Opposition parties had hoped for a strong showing in last week’s ballot, which they dismissed as an “electoral masquerade”, after […]
In Cameroon, ten separatists have been handed life sentences by a military court sitting in the capital, Yaounde. The leader of the most known separatist group, the Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, is among the convicts. Ayuk Tabe was the first self-proclaimed president of “Ambazonia”, a breakaway state declared in October 2017 […]
