Tunisian media businessman sami-fehri

African Union Inaugurates New HQ of Intelligence & Security Services

The recently concluded 33rd African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa was marked by the formal inauguration of the new headquarters of the Committee of Intelligence and Security Services (CISSA) in the Ethiopian capital, with a pledge to intensify inter-African security cooperation.   The CISSA, set up sixteen years ago, is tasked with providing the […]

Somalia: Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud returns to the helm of the country

Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud returns to the helm of Somalia after he was elected as president for the second time on Sunday, at a time the Horn of Africa country faces an Islamist insurgency and looming famine. After a marathon vote to decide between 36 candidates, broadcast on national television, parliamentary officials counted more than 165 […]

Algeria: Court Blocks Billionaire’s Acquisition of TV, Newspaper Group

An Algerian administrative court on Wednesday upheld its last month provisional ruling cancelling the multimillion dollar takeover of the private El Khabar media group by Ness-Prod, a subsidiary of agribusiness group Cevital owned by billionaire Issad Rebrab. The court ruled that the agreement reached between the two parties is null and that El Khabar’s newspaper […]