Algeria has been reduced to its real diplomatic size on the African continent as members of the African Union voted for Rwanda as the host of the African Medicines Agency. Myopic to its real size in Africa and disillusioned by its own propaganda, Algeria insisted on conducting a vote which left it exposed as an isolated country. Playing the bad loser, the Algerian military regime has responded to the defeat by orchestrating a despicable campaign against Rwanda. The victory of Rwanda is reflective of its President Paul Kagame’s leadership and the respect the country enjoys amid African peers, something that Algerian military junta lack. Algeria unfortunately has come to embody all that Africa is struggling to get rid of: military rule, authoritarianism and the rentier economy.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 18, 2022 11:09 UTC