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Iraq: Abu Alaa Afri, ISIS new leader  

After several media outlets reported that the caliph of the Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured in a coalition airstrike in western Iraq last month, Iraqi government adviser Dr Hisham al Hashimi confirmed that the caliph has temporarily handed over power to Abu Alaa Afri due to the injuries he sustained from the bombings. […]

President Alassane Ouattara appoints Robert Mambé Beugré new Prime Minister

Cote d’Ivoire’s leader Alassane Ouattara appointed Monday October 16 Robert Mambé Beugré (the governor of Abidjan Autonomous District) as the country’s new Premier in a replacement of Jérôme Patrick Achi who held the position for two years. Ouattara signed the decree as he received the 71-year old man in his office Monday. “On Monday October […]

Algeria: Bouteflika’s brothers under house arrest- El Watan

Algerian security authorities have put under house arrest the two brothers of ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika as part of a clean-up of the regime that ruled the country for two decades, El Watan reports. Saïd Bouteflika and Abderrahim aka Nacer have seen their actions and movements restricted, according to the local media. The reports came following […]