While 2023 could represent the most difficult year yet for Hungary’s national-populist government, there is only a slim chance the opposition will be able to capitalise on this.
Viktor Orban’s 13th year in power will put the prime minister’s political skills to the test, as a perfect storm looms.
Leaders in Belgrade and Pristina are perpetuating distrust by using the issue of the remaining missing persons from the Kosovo conflict for political purposes, ethnic Albanians and Serbs told researcher Nina Kaufmann.
Pressure is building for Serbia to strike a deal on Kosovo, but Aleksandar Vucic faces other challenges too in 2023.
Russia’s war in Ukraine will continue to cast a long shadow over Serbia well into 2023.
Les images d’une centaine de camions chargés de sucre, d’huile, de farine et de riz en route vers la Tunisie ont été largement diffusées ce mercredi dans les médias arabophones. Une initiative qui n’est pas forcément du goût de tous les Tunisiens.
L’Italie est “prête à augmenter” le nombre de migrants légaux venant de Tunisie mais demande davantage d’efforts contre l’immigration clandestine, a affirmé le chef de la diplomatie italienne mercredi lors d’une visite à Tunis.
Les deux derniers otages d’un enlèvement dans une gare au Nigeria ont été libérés par les forces de sécurité qui ont arrêté sept personnes, dont deux chefs de village, ont indiqué les autorités.
Des dizaines de personnes qui attendaient leur train dans l’État d’Edo pour Wari, plus au sud, avaient été enlevées lors la prise d’assaut de la gare, le 7 janvier par des hommes armés. Dimanche le responsable de l’Information de l’État d’Edo, Chris Osa Nehikhare avait annoncé la libération de 12 des 14 otages restants.
Emirati Minister Omar Sultan Al Olama discussed Samuel Bankman-Fried’s infamous trip to Dubai, cryptocurrency regulation, decentralized finance and more in Davos.
An Emirati official addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos Thursday on the state of cryptocurrency in light of the recent market crash.
Syrian jihadi groups are increasing their attacks on Syrian army outposts, as tripartite meetings between Russia, Turkey and Syria hint at a potential rapprochement deal to end the decade-long war.
Jamaat al-Tawhid, an affiliate of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a designated terrorist group by the US and United Nations, confirmed to have raided several Syrian army posts on Wednesday.
In an exclusive poll in five countries across the Middle East and North Africa, 68% majority of the population worried about their ability to access food.
It was soaring food prices that sparked the popular uprisings throughout the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, but it is unprecedented increases in food and energy prices since the outbreak of Russia’s war in Ukraine last February that now have a 68% majority of the population in Egypt, Turkey, Yemen, Tunisia and Iraq worried about their ability to access food in the coming months, according to an Al-Monitor/Premise poll.
Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan paid a visit to Libya only days after his American counterpart, William Burns, traveled to the conflict-torn country.
Libya hosted two intelligence chiefs within a span of a week, with Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan paying a visit to Tripoli Tuesday after CIA head William Burns visited the war-torn country last week.
Turkish and Libyan media reported that Fidan met with Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah after he traveled to Libya from Sudan where he had met with Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
Head of #Turkey's National Intelligence Organization Hakan Fidan arrives in #Tripoli and holds talks with Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah pic.twitter.com/cGN7mBIBLW
— The Libya Observer (@Lyobserver) January 17, 2023Fidan’s visit came after a Tripoli court last week ruled against a hydrocarbon exploration deal that the Dbeibah-led Government of National Unity (GNU) signed with Ankara last year. Citing a judicial source, Reuters reported that the court suspended the deal that aimed to allow joint Turkish-Libyan exploration for gas and oil in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of a controversial maritime demarcation agreement between Ankara and Tripoli in 2019. The deal has turned into a source of tensions between Turkey, Egypt and Greece over conflicting claims in the Eastern Mediterranean. Libya’s Tobruk-based parliament has stopped short of ratifying the deal.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said last week that the Libyan officials from the Tripoli-based government told him they were standing behind the agreement during their conversations over the court’s ruling.
The Tripoli court left room for the GNU to appeal the ruling, according to the Reuters report.
Turkey’s military and intelligence support to the Tripoli-based forces tipped the balance of power against eastern forces led by Khalifa Hifter, who has been backed by Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.