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Foreign Policy Magazine: How long will Algeria’s geriatric rulers hold?

Algeria is drowning in social discontent, raising the prospects of a return to mass protests and a violent response from its military autocratic regime, warns U.S. Foreign Policy magazine, noting that Algeria needs a second liberation…this time, from its aged rulers. The country needs to be liberated from its aged rulers who failed to transform […]

Madagascar on Edge: Gen Z Protests Ignite Military Defection and Presidential Crisis

Madagascar faces its most severe political crisis in over a decade as a wave of Gen Z-led protests has escalated into what President Andry Rajoelina describes as an attempted coup. The unrest intensified after CAPSAT, the elite military unit that helped install Rajoelina in power in 2009, declared its allegiance to the protesters and announced […]

King Mohammed VI expresses solidarity with King Abdullah of Jordan, first foreign leader to do so

King Mohammed VI expressed solidarity and full support for the measures taken by his brother King Abdullah II of Jordan, the Royal palace said. This came in a phone call between the two monarchs early on Sunday, the palace said in a statement.   King Mohammed VI was thus the first foreign leader to express […]