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Libya’s parliament has appointed Bashagha as its new prime minister
On Thursday, the eastern parliament in war-torn Libya appointed a former interior minister as prime minister, a serious challenge for the administration of interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.
"The House of Representatives unanimously approved Fathi Bashagha to lead the government," Parliamentary spokesman Abdullah Bliheg said in a tweet.
The move threatens to trigger a new power struggle between the eastern-based assembly and the Dbeibah administration based in Tripoli, in western Libya.
The…
Cape Verde and Tunisia are spinning in quarters
In Group A and B, respectively, Cape Verde and Tunisia qualified directly for the quarter-finals. Rwanda, Angola, Guinea and Egypt have to go through a qualifying match.
In Group A, the equation was simple: you had to win this third group match to hope to win the first qualifying spot for the quarterfinals. Hostland and first…
Amnesty International calls on Kaïs Saïed
Amnesty International calls on Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed to lift arbitrary travel bans. The organization has identified about fifty travel bans in one week.
Amnesty International also condemns "illegal" measures. Most of the people concerned wanted to travel to Turkey and a Member of Parliament was going to France. The…
Senegal qualified for the quarter-finals, Cameroon eliminated
Thanks to their victory against South Sudan on the second day of the group stage in Afrobasket 2021, Senegal validated their ticket to the quarterfinals. Cameroon, defeated by Uganda, is eliminated.
They are the first to qualify for the quarterfinals of Afrobasket 2021, in Kigali. After crushing Uganda during the first day…
Algeria proposes that it would give up the gas pipeline as
Two days after the severance of diplomatic relations with Morocco, Algeria announces that it can do without the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline, an important gas infrastructure for the Moroccan economy.
While the diplomatic staff packs their bags, because it is today that the Moroccan embassy enters Algeria closes the doors, a new…
DRC recovers, Central African Republic beats Guinea by one point
After their initial defeat against the host country Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo won against Cape Verde and was revived in Group A in Afrobasket 2021, in Kigali. Identical dynamics for the Central African Republic, winning in the final seconds against Guinea in pool B.
The Congolese reacted well. After Rwandan bang…
A Libyan delegation in Chad to discuss
Libya's Vice President, Moussa Al-Koné Moussa, and the President of the Transitional Military Council, Mahamat Idriss Déby, met behind closed doors on Wednesday. Among the issues addressed: trade relaunch and economic programs between the two countries. But also, and perhaps above all, security issues.
This is the first visit…
In the news: nothing is going well between Morocco and Algeria
It is the "new step in a long escalation", says The world Africa. "The break in the diplomatic relations between Algeria and…
Why has Algeria severed diplomatic relations with Morocco?
Algeria severed diplomatic relations with Morocco over alleged "hostile actions", accusations the kingdom dismissed as "absurd".
But after months of simmering tensions, what sparked the latest escalation between…
the constitution is in question
While the Tunisian president has decided to extend his exceptional powers "for the time being", according to the terms of his press release on Monday evening, a debate is ongoing in Tunisia. Now that Parliament is frozen indefinitely, what will be the fate of the 2014 Constitution? Should the country adopt a new basic text?
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