International rights organisations have gathered in the French capital to highlight Egypt’s human rights abuses, as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is set to arrive for a two-day visit. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders and the France-based International Federation for Human Rights were among the groups scheduled to speak at a news conference in Paris on Monday. In a statement, Human… Read more »
Tunis, Tunisia – In 2004, Sakher el-Materi bought a Tunis car dealership called Ennakl that specialised in importing foreign cars. Soon after he took over the company, quotas set by his father-in-law, then President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, allowed the dealership to import almost four times as many cars as before. Five years after he bought the company for $18m, it… Read more »
Although he was hardly seen during the election campaign season in Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika recently won another presidential term, extending his 15 years in power. Despite frail health of the president, Algeria has managed to retain relative stability in an increasingly unstable neighbourhood. It should not come as a surprise, therefore, that Turkey is interested in closer relations. Historical ties… Read more »
State intelligence is secret by its very nature but every now and then extraordinary historical circumstances shed light on the hidden world of secret services. When Muammar Gaddafi’s regime fell and rebels ransacked government offices, they discovered a treasure trove of classified correspondence between Libya and the West. It revealed in stunning detail the interaction between the dictator and British… Read more »
there are still many things going on in the middle east and northern Africa every single day. it is always one of the biggest centers for news. currently Algeria is trying to build another natural gas site, after only one year ago it got attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorist group. of course the hesitance in this is what if they get… Read more »
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in public on Tuesday. The meeting came ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in what Egypt said was part of an effort to revive the Palestinian-Israeli diplomatic talks. It has been almost four decades since former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat extended a… Read more »
In September 2014, we were invited by the president’s office to come and film in Somalia. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is heading up the latest in a series of short-lived administrations since the country’s descent into chaos that followed the fall of the Siad Barre dictatorship in 1989. In order to build peace MP’s were selected by elders to represent… Read more »
One year ago, a terrorist attack on a natural gas facility in southern Algeria led to the deaths of 67 people after Algerian troops tried to rescue hundreds of hostages taken by an al-Qaeda-linked group. Now, for the first time in three years, Algeria has opened a new set of potential oil and gas fields to international bidders. The bidding… Read more »
in the middle east and northern Africa, it seems there is never a dull moment. Just about every country in this region is going through some sort of turmoil at any given time. In the past, certain countries just haven’t gotten along very well, until now. It seems that Egypt and Israel are at an all time high in their relationship…. Read more »
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in public on Tuesday. The meeting came ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in what Egypt said was part of an effort to revive the Palestinian-Israeli diplomatic talks. It has been almost four decades since former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat extended a… Read more »