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Cash-stripped Sudan on Monday announced it will float the country’s currency as economic conditions deteriorate further, some four months after a military coup plunged the African nation into further turmoil. The Central Bank of Sudan said banks and exchange firms will determine the value of the Sudanese pound based on …
Read More »Libya oil company: Production resumes at 2 shuttered fields
Libya’s national oil company said it resumed oil production Tuesday at two oil fields that were shut down by an armed group over the weekend. The closures caused the country’s daily output to drop by 330,000 barrels for three straight days. The state-run National Oil Corporation said pump valves at …
Read More »Mali-Algérie : qui est Yahia Djouadi, chef d’Aqmi tué par la France ?
Une opération des soldats français de Barkhane a mené à la neutralisation fin février de Yahia Djouadi. Surnommé « l’émir du Sahara », cet Algérien était un haut cadre d’Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique. L’opération, menée par les forces spéciales françaises à une centaine de kilomètres au nord de Tombouctou, dans …
Read More »International Unity Needed To Prevent A Divided Libya – Analysis
Libya is at a perilous crossroads – again. On 1 March, the country’s Tobruk-based parliament, the House of Representatives, voted to endorse a new interim government headed by former Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha, giving it the greenlight to take over from the sitting prime minister, Abdulhamid Dabaiba. The vote’s proponents …
Read More »Saied Levels Yet Another Blow at Tunisia’s Democracy
Today, the Ukrainian people are fighting—quite literally—for their right to determine their own fate, independently and democratically. It was not so long ago that millions of people in multiple nations of the Middle East and North Africa rose up to fight for democracy at home in a wave of revolutions …
Read More »China and Russia are proposing a new authoritarian playbook. MENA leaders are watching closely.
When President Donald Trump lost the 2020 US presidential election to democratic candidate Joe Biden, many leaders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) saw an ominous warning that democracy may again take center stage in US foreign policy, with autocrats trying to consolidate power in their hands. However, …
Read More »Analyzing the Russia-Ukraine Conflict from an African Standpoint
African countries’ reservations on condemning Russia’s invasion to Ukraine can be explored through growing Russian ties with African leaders. Those who did condemn also called out Western double standards on international law. How will African countries react to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and what diplomatic fissures are likely to …
Read More »International Unity is Needed to Prevent a Divided Libya
Libya again has two rival administrations pressing claims to be the rightful government. Both sides have armed loyalists. Outside powers should join hands to help stop them from clashing once more. Libya is at a perilous crossroads – again. On 1 March, the country’s Tobruk-based parliament, the House of Representatives, …
Read More »Sudan, Ethiopia negotiate over border conflict
Bilateral talks are ongoing between Ethiopia and Sudan aimed at resuming negotiations to solve the border dispute between the two countries and the GERD crisis. There have been positive signs in recent days about resuming negotiations between Ethiopia and Sudan to solve a number of disputes between the two countries. …
Read More »Mister Hemedti Goes To Moscow
One would think that Russia was busy with other matters, but on February 20, 2022 – at the height of the Ukraine Crisis – the Sudanese Foreign Ministry announced that the Vice Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti” would travel to Moscow at the …
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