Politics Bound

Cairo, Aug 19, 2020  - Egypt's electoral commission said Wednesday that candidates on an electoral list loyal to President  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won overwhelmingly in party elections held to a newly-restored upper house last week. But the polling, on August 11 and...

As Egypt flexes its muscle with threats to intervene in Libya's civil war, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sought to join forces with some of the neighbouring country's powerful tribes. Cairo hopes the alliances would boost its legitimacy if it were to wade...

We may have missed this story and reported as a minor event, and in fact, no national newspapers reported it, but thousands of people came out to demonstrate against the Algerian regime on Saturday, 15 August in Kherrata, 60 km east of Bejaia, in what was the first...

Bamako, Aug 19, 2020  - Mali awoke on Wednesday to a new chapter in its troubled history after rebel military leaders forced President Boubacar Keita from office, prompting its West African neighbours to threaten border closures and sanctions against the coup leaders....