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Algeria: State-run Sonatrach CEO Sacked

Kamel Eddine Chikhi, Chief of state-owned energy firm Sonatrach, was sacked Wednesday only three months into the job.   A presidential decree, relayed by state-run television ENTV, said Toufik Hakkar will take the helm of the energy company, which witnessed a cut into revenues last year and is in search of investors.   Hakkar was […]

Victory for the RNI, crushing defeat for PJD Islamists in Morocco’s parliamentary elections

Moroccan social democrat party RNI won a slight majority, followed by its PAM counterpart, and conservative Istiqlal in the parliamentary elections in which voters dealt a heavy blow to the PJD. RNI won 97 seats, PAM 82, Istiqlal 78, socialist USFP 35, while MP took 26 seats, the UC 18 and the PJD came eighth […]

China and African nations urged to work with UN to set up AI governing institution

Amid intense competition with the United States to dominate Artificial Intelligence (AI), China has recently hosted a forum attended by a number of African countries designed to deepen a collaboration in the field of AI governance. Hosted by Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s internet watchdog, the China-Africa Internet Development and Cooperation Forum urged Beijing […]