It’s a question many in Angola are asking. Will the elections in 2012 be fair for all parties and candidates involved? After all, the ruling party of Angola, the “Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola – Partido do Trabalho” otherwise known as the MPLA, has been in...
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Representatives from the South African Treasury stated that Swaziland officials still did not sign the 2.4 billion rand loan agreement which means that the sorely needed money, the equivalent to roughly 307 million U.S. dollars, has not yet been transferred to Swaziland. The loan, which has no ‘expiration date’ before the signing, was supposed to be delivered...
Anti-alcohol protests and other riots continue to persist in parts of Algeria including the Algerian capital of Algiers. Over the past year, bars and stores that sold alcoholic beverages have been the targets of frustrated people guided by radical Muslims who seem to be using alcohol as a scapegoat as one of the country’s foremost problems next to the problems over...