A tribute was paid to national figure Abderrahmane El Youssoufi on July 30 by King Mohammed VI who named a street in Tangier after him. With such a tribute, Abderrahmane El Youssoufi, national movement leader, co-founder of the leftist party the USFP and former Prime Minister, becomes one of the rare national personalities who saw […]
Algeria’s 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been nominated by his ruling National Liberation Party (FLN) to run for a fourth term in April 2014. The ailing leader, who was hospitalized in France last April after suffering what official reports described as a stroke, has been in power since 1999. He presided over a cabinet meeting […]
Chérif Mahamat Zène, Chad’s Foreign minister, submitted Monday his resignation to President Mahamat Idriss Deby, decrying repeated interference and encroachment on his mandate. “For several months, my commitment and my will to serve my country have been thwarted by parallel initiatives of members of your cabinet and government, undertaken without my knowledge and on your […]
