Vol 63 No 14 | MOROCCOSPAINEUROPEAN UNION Death at the border 7th July 2022 The death of over 25 migrants on 24 June after more than 2,000 people tried to jump the fence separating the enclave of Melilla and Nador, in northern Morocco, has prompted a furio...
Vol 63 No 13 | LIBYA Plan mooted to settle east-west split 23rd June 2022 The country is back to rule by two governments – but support is growing for devolution instead of the stalled international push for national elections Libya looks more divided than at any time since the 2011 revolution. It boasts one government in Tripoli ruling the west, and another in Sirte which is recognised in the east &ndas...
Vol 63 No 9 | ALGERIAMOROCCORUSSIA Navigating through the fog of cold war 28th April 2022 Only one national cause defines policy in Algiers and Rabat – and it isn't Ukraine For Algeria and its ally, the Polisario Front, as for their bitter rival Morocco, a 'national cause' remains their main preoccupation. For Algeria it is independence of the Saharan...
Vol 63 No 8 | TUNISIA United by dissolution 14th April 2022 Dozens of parliamentarians have been hauled in for questioning since last week's online parliamentary session that voted to rescind President Kaïs Saïed's rule by decree....
Vol 63 No 7 | EGYPT Back to the IMF…again 31st March 2022 Egypt is looking for a bailout for the third time since 2016, as the Ukraine war hits the economy and foreign portfolio investors head for the exit The unfolding economic damage from Russia's war on Ukraine has again exposed Egypt's vulnerability to rising food and oil prices and the fickle money markets. On 23 March, the Inte...
Vol 63 No 7 | MOROCCOUNITED STATESISRAEL Rabat strengthens Sahara grip 31st March 2022 Morocco is exerting an ever-tighter grip on the diplomacy over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, after Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid became the latest to endorse its...
Vol 63 No 7 | LIBYA Dubaiba and Bashagha preside over a new east-west partition 30th March 2022 As bread prices rocket, the country has two rival governments again – one courting the west and one linked to Russia A new Government of National Stability (GNS) headed by Fathi Bashagha and close to Moscow is little more than a mirage. Bashagha was apppinted by the Tobruk-based parliament, the H...
Vol 63 No 7 | TUNISIAUNITED STATES Washington toughens stance on aid amid galloping fuel and food prices 23rd March 2022 The US Congress wants conditions on aid to President Saïed's autocratic regime as it tries to negotiate an IMF bail-out Prompted by rights activists, business interests and opposition politicians in Tunisia, the United States's Congress is linking official aid budgets to a reversing of President Ka&...
Vol 63 No 6 | ALGERIA Unmanned by drones 17th March 2022 The vulnerability of expensive armour and military aircraft to Turkey's Bayraktar drones and cheap anti-tank missiles in the Ukraine conflict is causing a drastic rethink in the Al...
Vol 63 No 6 | MOROCCO A bigger piece of the potash 17th March 2022 Russia's 40% market share in global production and export of potash fertiliser is threatened after the west imposed sanctions on Moscow and Belarus. Sanctions by the United States ...