Ethiopia has postponed its parliamentary elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus outbreak, the electoral commission said on Tuesday. “Due to the pandemic we were forced to suspend our activities,” said an Amharic-language statement from the National Electoral Commission. Ethiopia has as of April 1, confirmed 29 coronavirus cases. Infections have so […]
The British magazine, The Ecomist, published recently a very critical story on the economic, political and social situation in Algeria that it described as dismal. “…Algeria’s economy and politics are both sclerotic, its leadership repressive yet feeble, its role in Africa and the Arab world self-regarding but unappreciated.” It is in these words that the […]
Investing in long-term gas projects in Africa as countries wrestle with powering their development with clean energy may not be a very good idea, United States’ special envoy on climate John Kerry has noted, as African countries denounce developed nations’ pledge to curb fossil fuel investment is unfair. “We are not saying no gas,” he […]
