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Algeria’s African Mirage

As it heads straight towards a spiral of economic and social turmoil reminiscent of the situation that it experienced in the late 1980s and the 1990s, Algeria tries desperately to catch up with its western neighbor Morocco. As Rabat increasingly outmanoeuvres Algiers on the continent thanks to a decades-long coherent African strategy underpinned by south-south […]

A civilian and three security forces, killed in a separatist attack in Cameroon

Three security forces and one civilian were shot dead Monday at a checkpoint in an attack in Moungo department, in the littoral region, that Cameroonian authorities blamed on separatists fighting to break away from Yaounde. “On Monday morning, heavily armed separatists opened fire on the Matouké checkpoint in the Bona-Léa district of the Moungo department. […]

DR Congo Nobel Prize Winner Denis Mukwege to run for Dec. presidential elections

2018 Nobel Prize Winner Denis Mukwege announced Monday plans to run for December presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in view of saving a country torn by insecurity. “I agree to be your candidate for president of the Republic,” the surgical gynecologist, 69, told a packed auditorium in the central African nation’s […]