Governance Bound

Algeria: A dictator’s cozy retirement and the whereabouts of BouteflikaF

Algiers, March 31, 2020 - A year after the unexpected downfall of Algeria's longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ailing octogenarian remains holed up in his plush and medically adapted home, with his detractors still demanding justice. Bouteflika assumed the...
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Algeria jails more journalists despite Covid-19F

Algiers, March 29, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was Sunday ordered to be held in pre-trial detention, press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and rights organisations said. "Our correspondent in Algeria, Khaled Drareni, has been incarcerated," RSF...
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Libya does the right thing: it releases prisoners in pretrial detention amid Covid-19F

Tripoli, March 29, 2020 - Libya's justice ministry announced Sunday over 450 prisoners were being freed in a bid to protect against the spread of coronavirus in the wake of the war-torn country's first declared infections. Judicial officials decided to "free 466...
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Africa is completely unprepared to deal with confinement of large populationsF

Lagos, March 30, 2020 (By Celia Lebur) - Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggled to curb the spread of coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari...
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