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Libya: Agreement to hold national elections in December 2021 reached

Participants in the Libyan dialogue forum, held in Tunis, have agreed to hold national elections in December next year, said the UN Mission in Libya on Friday. The 75 participants from across the social and political spectrum, including representatives of the internationally Government of National Accord (GNA) and Benghazi-based warlord Khalifa Haftar-controlled Libyan National Army […]

Revolution Makes States : The Maghreb Inches Forward (Too) Slowly

Over the past weekend, the Ukrainian government was ousted, Ukraine’s parliament reinstated the 2004 constitution and former President Victor Yanukovich is on the run in Russia. One might be forgiven to think of these developments in isolation. But it is in fact a reminder that reactionary regimes rarely deliver the sort of stability they are […]

Macky Sall orders Premier to curb illegal migration to Canary Islands right from home

Senegalese President Macky Sall Wednesday November 8 instructed the country’s Prime Minister to curtail all illegal migration attempts via the sea to the Spanish autonomous territory of the Canary Islands, after hundreds of Senegalese, including women and children, were rescued over the week-end off Mauritania’s coasts. “The Head of State referred to the National Strategy […]