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Côte d’Ivoire: Don’t need a third term, President Ouattara

The Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara smashed again requests by supporters who want him to change the constitution to be able to stand for another third term in office. “Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and I concerted each other and we said no, we don’t need that,” President Alassane Ouattara said in the presence of the Liberian President. […]

Moroccan archeologists unearth 1.3 million-year-old hand-axe site

Moroccan archeologists uncovered recently near Casablanca the oldest stone age hand-axe manufacturing site in north Africa, dating back to 1.3 million years. The discovery pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in north Africa of the Acheulian stone-tool industry, associated with the human ancestor Homo erectus, researchers said at a news […]

Algeria busy supporting Polisario separatists while leaders are myopic to country’s structural problems

Battered by falling oil prices and lack of pro-activeness in addressing the coronavirus and its social and economic repercussions, Algeria’s President Abdelmejid Teboune has attention geared primarily to undermining Morocco’s territorial integrity through generous handouts to the Polisario separatists. When asked by reporters whether Algeria will seek foreign debt to deal with the crisis, Teboune […]