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Egypt: 25% of Egypt Air pilots resign over new financial regulations

Crisis marring the Egyptian national carrier, Egypt Air, is not yet over as pilots striking against the new financial regulations have threatened to resign while the Egyptian Civilian Pilots Syndicate tackles the Civil Aviation Authority in the court room over the labor law. At least 25% of the airlines’ pilots have tendered a mass resignation […]

Tunisia’s President dies leaving fears of power vacuum

Tunisia’s President Béji Caïd Essebsi died on Thursday at the age of 93 after he was hospitalized with a severe illness in late June leaving Tunisia in a power vacuum ahead of elections. Essebsi is Tunisia’s first democratically elected president following the Arab Spring revolution of 2011. A government statement called him one of Tunisia’s […]

Mauritania marks first peaceful transfer of power

The ruling party’s Mohamed Ould Ghazouani easily won Mauritania’s presidential elections marking a rare peaceful transfer of power in the African continent. Oul Ghazouani had secured 51.95% of the vote with counting completed in nearly all polling stations, the electoral commission data showed on Sunday. Ghazouani’s nearest rival, prominent anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid had […]