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Libya’s embattled PM confident HoR’s confidence vote to rival cabinet will fail

Libya’s incumbent Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah Sunday told supporters that “the patriot parliament members” will ruin the confidence-granting session expected this Monday in the country’s legislature to inaugurate the cabinet of rival Fathi Bashagha, reports say. An unspecified number of demonstrators protested in capital Tripoli to demand elections after the scheduled Dec. 24 failed to […]

US recalibrates military strategy in Africa, urges local allies to shoulder security burden

Amid a surge in insurgent activity across Africa, the U.S. military is recalibrating its strategy, stepping back from its traditional focus on governance and development to emphasize burden-sharing and self-reliance among African partners. At the recent African Lion 2025 military exercise — the continent’s largest — Gen. Michael Langley, head of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), […]

Ukraine-Russia war vindicates Morocco’s plan to foster sovereignty on all strategic fronts

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has disrupted commodities market sending prices skyrocketing at a context the world is struggling to recover from the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic. Morocco’s sovereign Mohammed VI had- prior to the outbreak of this war- urged the government to take concrete measures to foster Morocco’s self-sufficiency on the strategic areas […]