Senegal’s 2024 election: 79 candidates, including jailed Sonko, file to run for presidency

A total of 79 individuals, including the jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, are reported to have filed their candidacy for the February 2024 presidential election in Senegal before the Tuesday (26 December) deadline amid allegations that the Senegalese authorities have been intensifying repression ahead of the vote. When Macky Sall, President of Senegal since 2012, […]

Noose Tightens on Polisario as Morocco joins AU’s Peace & Security Council

The return of Morocco to the African Union and its recent membership in the pan-African organization’s most important body, the Peace and Security Council, is vindicating the fears of the Polisario separatists and their mentor, Algeria. As the noose tightens around the Polisario in the Tindouf camps, where combustible factors of unrest, corruption and oppression […]

Morocco condemns in strongest terms acts of vandalism against its Consulate in Valencia

Morocco has condemned “in the strongest terms” the acts of vandalism and violence perpetrated Sunday against its consulate in the Spanish city of Valencia.   “As Ambassador of His Majesty the King to Spain, I wish to express our indignation and condemn in the strongest terms these acts of vandalism and violence, which, like what […]