Burkina Faso authorities have cancelled a concession deal with French company Meridian AM to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a new International airport in capital Ouagadougou, over several reasons including the taxation regime and duration of the concession (30 years) believed to be exaggerated. The regime of former and ousted leader Rock March Christian […]
Some 4.2 million eligible Togolese citizens vote in delayed and controversial legislative elections this Monday (29 April) to decide if President Faure Gnassingbe will extend his family’s decades-long grip on power. Voting got under way following approval of divisive constitutional reforms by the outgoing parliament that opponents have called a “constitutional coup” because of concerns […]
Former head of Egypt’s anti-corruption department Hisham Geneina has been arrested on Tuesday, after he claimed that former army chief of staff Sami Anan is in possession of secret documents that implicate leaders of President Fattah al-Sisi’s regime, his lawyer and his sister told the media. Hisham Geneina, according to his lawyer Ali Taha, was […]
