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Vol 52 No 25
16th December 2011

Brothers unbound

From Cairo to Casablanca, the Muslim Brotherhood is giving shape to the Islamist parties that are profiting from the Arab Spring

Vol 52 No 12
10th June 2011

Revolts change regional alliances

Incumbent regimes are reshaping their strategies to address the democracy wave and to maintain their anti-terror posture

Vol 52 No 4
18th February 2011

With two autocrats felled in less than a month, the big winner in North Africa’s democracy wave is clearly people power, previously a rarity on the streets of Tunis and Cairo, and indeed other North African cities. It is the nature – young, pro-democracy ...

Vol 52 No 3
4th February 2011

Playing dominoes

The autocratic regimes in Algeria and Libya are making concessions in the hope of resisting the democracy movement that started in Tunisia

Vol 51 No 14
9th July 2010

Crisis on the Nile

The confrontation over the Nile waters, which pits Egypt and Sudan against the five downstream countries, is escalating into a major regional crisis following the collapse of a ministerial meeting in Addis Ababa on 26-27 June. Egypt and Sudan opposed move...

Vol 50 No 1
9th January 2009

Whiskey doubles all round

All of North Africa’s leaders will have something to celebrate in 2009, even if the majority of their populations won’t

Vol 49 No 1
11th January 2008

Elite and underground politics

Islamist militants vie with ageing autocrats for political supremacy while the region’s voters look for jobs and security

Vol 48 No 1
12th January 2007

Old soldiers never die

Intimations of mortality are becoming more evident but the region is dominated by septuagenarian zaims

Vol 47 No 1
6th January 2006

Ponderous politicians

Political change is lagging well behind the governments' market economic strategies

Vol 46 No 1
7th January 2005

Time to deliver

Despite the usual political pressures, North Africa's oil and gas producers, led by Algeria, Libya and Egypt, had a prosperous year. Their foreign reserves built up on the back of high prices, while old problems like foreign debt were left far behind. For...

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