Turkey: Defense Aselsan gets orders worth $320 million in Q1 of 2020

Turkey’s top electronics defense contractor, Aselsan, Thursday revealed that it has received for the first quarter of the year orders estimated at $320 million despite ongoing difficult global business operations over the coronavirus outbreak. Aselsan “continued its growth trend in the first three months of 2020 without losing momentum,” the company Chairman Haluk Görgün said […]

Tiani’s grip on power weakens as jihadist violence surges in Niger

Less than two years after seizing power, Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani is struggling to contain a growing jihadist insurgency that threatens both his authority and national stability. Despite bold promises to restore security and sovereignty after the 2023 coup, Tiani’s regime faces escalating attacks from al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and Islamic […]

Morocco at the forefront of vaccinated population, Algeria lagging behind at the bottom

Less than three weeks after it launched its large-scale immunization campaign against COVID-19, Morocco has inoculated 1.4 million people in a campaign that is unfolding in the best conditions and witnessing a strong mobilization of citizens, while in Algeria the pseudo-vaccination campaign is taking place in total chaos.   According to the real-time vaccination counting […]