The number of internally displaced people across the African continent has tripled to 35 million since 2009, driven by wars and climate change, says a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC). While flooding and drought are posing a growing threat, almost 93% of those displaced, or 32.5 million, abandoned their homes due […]
With Russia now considering a withdrawal from the Black Sea grain deal and with its offer of ‘no-cost delivery’ of grains and fertilizers to ‘friendly’ African countries, Moscow seems to be recalibrating its African strategy, says a recent Geopolitical Handbook titled ‘Putin’s African Dream and The New Dawn’ published by Modern Diplomacy. While Russian president […]
Ammar Saadani, former Secretary General of Algeria’s all-powerful political party, the FLN, whose leaders ruled the country since independence, unveiled the disenchantment among Algeria’s political elite with regards to Algiers hostile policy towards Morocco’s territorial integrity, saying that the Sahara has always been Moroccan and that Algeria should stop dilapidating its resources on the separatist […]
