Governance Bound

In a message published this week by the state news agency APS, Interim head of state Abdelkader Bensalah repeated the same arguments put forward by army chief General Gaid Salah on the urgency of holding presidential elections, “whatever the cost and as quickly as...

Kampala, Aug 16, 2019 - Uganda and Zambia on Friday denied a report that employees of Chinese telecom giant Huawei had helped them spy on political opponents. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported this week that Huawei technicians helped the two African governments...

Algiers, Aug 20, 2019  by By Amal Belalloufi and Aymeric Vincenot: Algerians launched an unprecedented protest movement in February, filling the streets of cities across the country and forcing the president out of office. Six months later, the movement is still going...

Algiers, Aug 1, 2019 - Algeria's judiciary has refused to provisionally release a well-known independence war veteran detained for allegedly insulting the army, his lawyers said. Lakhdar Bouregaa, 86, was arrested at the end of June for "insulting a state body" and...