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France in face of Algeria’s Frankenstein Syndrome

Relations between France and Algeria have deteriorated to their worst level in decades in a showdown in which French President Emmanuel Macron assumes some responsibility in having sought to reconcile with an Algerian military-led regime that subsists on hostility to anything French. In offering too many concessions to the military regime in Algiers and turning […]

DRC: 2023 defense budget increased 300-fold amid confrontation with rebel groups

The Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has increased by 300 per cent its defense budget for 2023 to $1 billion in view of “ramping up the power of the armed forces and to revamp military industry”.   The defense budget accounts for 10.4 per cent of the total budge put at $14.6 billion. This budget […]

The King, Custodian of the Freedom of Worship in Morocco-FM says

King Mohammed VI in his quality as Commander of the faithful is the custodian of the freedom of worship in Morocco, said Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Washington. Speaking at the State Department’s first-ever “Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom,” Bourita explained that the Commandership of the faithful is an institution that distinguishes the Moroccan religious […]