Regional influence: an Algerian pipe dream
Algeria cites upholding the right to self-determination as a key reason behind its support for the Polisario Front, an independence...
Day: 25 August 2025
Algeria: “personal survival at all costs”
Attempts to soften US policy on Western Sahara have seen Algiers resort to methods described as "personal survival at all...
Algeria supports Sahrawi right to autonomy
Algerian support for Sahrawi independence is based primarily on the belief that all peoples have the right to self-determination, as...
Gas levers in the Western Sahara conflict
Having reached a "watershed moment" between a protracted conflict and "peace and compromise," players in the Western Sahara conflict have...
The African “caliphate of the mind”
The Islamic State (ISIS) has transformed from a centralised group into a remote organisation with operational and financial autonomy in...
UN Security Council poised to vote on Lebanese peacekeepers
The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on August 25th to decide whether to uphold the blue helmet...
ISIS takes hold in the “world’s most fragile continent”
Africa has been declared the global epicentre of the Islamic State (ISIS), which has evolved from a centralised organisation into...
Following Israel talks, US envoy will arrive in Lebanon
Leading US envoy, Tom Barrack, and the Deputy US Special Envoy, Morgan Ortagus, are due to arrive in Lebanon on...
Defence and natural resources on the Moscow-Sahel table
Defence is currently the largest area of cooperation between Russia and the three Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali and...
Sahel states inching closer to Moscow
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, are cementing ties with Russia following their separation from the ECOWAS partnership and the establishment...
Libyans want elections as soon as possible
The United Nations has finished conducting public surveys across Libya in which citizens are given four options proposed by an...
UN finishes it’s public survey on Libyan elections
After two months, the UN has finished its public survey to assess how Libyan citizens want to nation to move...
South Africa fighting to save HIV treatment after US aid cut
South Africa is struggling under the weight of severe US aid cuts to its HIV program, threatening to unravel the...
Burkina Faso ends Gates-backed Target Malaria project
Burkina Faso’s military junta has suspended the Target Malaria initiative aimed at combating malaria through the release of genetically modified...
Why does Azerbaijan stand by Israel as others turn away?
Azerbaijan has not only ended decades of war with Armenia, but by signing a peace deal in Washington, it has...
