Qatar’s Ooredoo appoints deputy CEO for Algeria branch

              Qatar-owned telecommunication giant Ooredo Group Thursday announced the appointment of a deputy CEO for its branch in Algeria one week after CEO Nickolai Beckers was expelled over large scale layoff allegations. Bassam Yousef Al Ibrahim, the Doha-based organization said in a statement, will take office from March 1st. […]

Kais Saied’s Tunisia: a case study in democratic backsliding

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 […]

Russia is our hope in Syria, UN Envoy

The upcoming talks, between the Syrian opposition and Assad’s government, in Russia are seen as an opportunity that should not be missed according to U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura. He said the Syrian war has become the worst humanitarian disaster since World War II and Russian efforts should be supported to end it because it […]