Governance Bound

N'Djamena, Feb 14, 2020 - Chad will hold parliamentary elections on December 13 after a five-year delay blamed on terrorist activity, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) announced Friday. The current National Assembly was elected in 2011 for four...

Media provocateur Anis Rahmani, owner of Algeria’s Ennahar TV, was put on detention warrant by a court in Algiers as his case is being investigated. His incarceration indicates the continued clan warfare that has been pitting various regime groups against one another....

By Arezki Daoud - (13 February 2020): The Algerian government appears clueless when it comes to fixing the economy, or anything else as a matter of fact. The Tebboune presidency has no vision or clear understanding of economic matters and instead of producing a well...

On 5 February 2020, Sonatrach CEO Kamel Eddine Chikhi was dismissed from his position by a government decree. He was replaced by insider Tewfik Hakkar, who was Vice President for Business Development and Marketing at Sonatrach. Chikhi was appointed in November 2019,...