DRC: Excitement in Lubumbashi as exiled Katumbi returns home

Congolese businessman and politician Moise Katumbi has returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo, following three years of self-imposed exile. Katumbi fled DRC on 20 May 2016 after criminal charges of alleged hiring of foreign mercenaries were laid against him. He crossed the border into Namibia and travelled on to Brussels. The 52-year-old businessman and […]

Morocco: Three biggest parties in Parliamentary elections to form next government

Head of the RNI party Aziz Akhannouch said his party, the PAM and the Istiqlal agreed to join efforts to form the new government after they emerged as the largest three winners of Sept. 8 elections. The RNI won parliamentary elections with 102 seats followed by PAM with 87 seats and the Istiqlal with 81 […]

Financial Times puts South Africa’s infrastructure crisis on spotlight

In addition to electricity blackouts, international media is increasingly deploring South Africa’s infrastructure dysfunctions. Financial Times zoomed on water cuts in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg. “The prolonged outage that has left taps dry across a swath of Johannesburg and the wider Gauteng province signals a deepening crisis in the water system during one of […]