On the 17th and 18th of February, the European leaders of the Member States of the European Union greeted over 40 African leaders in a long-awaited summit, postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The summit was intended to lay further grounds in the areas of common cooperation and encourage foreign investment in Africa, especially following the growing Chinese …

Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been at odds for more than a decade over a dam that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, the Nile River’s primary tributary. In this regard, In an indirect reference to the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam(GERD) at the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on …

In 2009 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and the Democratic Constitutional Rally were dominating the political life in Tunisia by using threats of terrorism and religious extremism as one of the means to put pressure and to dissuade peaceful dissent coming from other parties, in order to install an effective policy of terror, when Ali was elected, he designed laws with …

Morocco and Algeria have been rivals for decades since the end of the Spanish and French protectorates in Morocco (1956) and the independence of Algeria between 1954-1962. The first, Morocco, a parliamentary monarchy that has resolved its fit with rising Islam through the political-religious figure of King Hasan. The second, Algeria, a republic of socialist origin that has been veering …