Politics, Policies and Prospects of the MENA Region

La pandémie de la Covid-19, qui a touché la quasi-totalité des pays et territoires du globe terrestre, continue à générer des millions d’infections et de décès. Pour l’éradiquer, les pays mobilisent d’énormes efforts pour vacciner leurs populations et réussir ainsi à atteindre l’immunité collective. L’objet de ce Papier est d’évaluer l’efficacité de la vaccination anti Covid-19, autrement dit sa capacité à stopper réellement la progression des infections et des décès. Pour répondre ...

The COVID-19 Virus and the Liberation of Women It seems not much has changed in almost 400 years since Molière wrote these words in his comedy The school for wives. Male dominance, God-like characters, known as men, united in inexcusable discrimination, sexism, gender inequality, infallible men forever trying to rule the world. “A wife who writes, knows more than can be good for her”, Molière’s main character sighs in the play, insisting that female brightness as a rule “is a bad o ...

As a Project Assistant responsible for Speech Writing in the Office of Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, Seleman Kitenge, born in 1989 in Tanzania, is now based in Johannesburg. He was first a volunteer for the African Union (AU) in the same role for one year, before being hired in August 2020 by the AU Development Agency. “I’m enjoying it, he says, some of my mentors are really good”. Among them, Togolani Mavura,  Private Secretary and Speech W ...