Total coronavirus cases have risen in Mauritania to 141, a month after it declared that it became coronavirus-free after seven recoveries and one death. The surge in cases in the sparsely populated West African country highlights the risks surrounding confinement easing and the need for vigilance and strict social distancing measures. The virus is circuitous […]
Within a week two leading French papers shed light on the authoritarian drift suffered by Tunisia under the rule of Kais Saied. Both Jeune Afrique and Le Point listed facets of democratic backpedaling under a president who has also undermined Tunisia’s economic outlook Tunisia, once hailed as an Arab Spring’s democratic success story, is now […]
The imminent return of Morocco to the African Union will offer the North African Kingdom a platform to showcase and share its economic, political and security model that will breakaway with the dominant ideological rhetoric in the organization in favor of a south-south African cooperation model permeated by solidarity and co-development. For decades, the African […]
