A total of 79 individuals, including the jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, are reported to have filed their candidacy for the February 2024 presidential election in Senegal before the Tuesday (26 December) deadline amid allegations that the Senegalese authorities have been intensifying repression ahead of the vote. When Macky Sall, President of Senegal since 2012, […]
The city of Dakhla, pearl of the Moroccan Sahara, has been voted “Dream Region 2021” during a ceremony organized lately by online news outlet “Tourisma Post”, the National Confederation of Tourism (CNT) and Moroccan National Tourism Office (ONMT). Dakhla has won the distinction following a survey conducted last summer by CNT and Tourisma Post, showing […]
Head of the Algerian army, General Saïd Chengriha, spoke before a hall of uniformed officers last week, praising what he described as Algeria’s steady economic progress and national resilience. His speech came right after new EU statistics showed Algerians had become the largest group of irregular migrants in the bloc, with Spanish authorities also reporting […]
