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New deal, old questions

The EU signed off on a new trade agreement with Morocco on 4 October that will include goods from the disputed Western Sahara region. The deal has been...


Khartoum rebuffs US-Arab peace roadmap

Calling for a three-month humanitarian truce and banning Islamists, the Quad plan brings civilian politicians into talks for a post-war transition

After multiple failed attempts to chart a route out of Sudan’s devastating civil war, the statement by the Quad – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the...


Agents of repression

The European Union and Spain have ‘incentivized repression’ of migration by funding and supporting Mauritanian forces to bolster border and migration controls without ensuring adequate human rights safeguards,...


Aziz falls – while his closest ally thrives

Jailed for corruption, the ex-president has lost his battle with his former right-hand man and the political elite continues to consolidate power

In Nouakchott’s cafés, where political debates simmer beneath the whir of ceiling fans, the sentencing of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to 15 years for corruption barely...


Dubaiba is set to lose his militia gamble

The worst fighting in Tripoli for 80 years has sparked protests demanding the prime minister’s exit

Anger with the Government of National Unity (GNU) of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba was already on the rise when one of the militia-infested capital’s most powerful chiefs,...


The Gadaffi billions – how Libya plans to reclaim the stolen wealth

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi stashed billions in US banks, and now Libya’s power brokers are vying for control of this hidden fortune. The scramble for wealth has ignited a fierce political battle in Tripoli – one so ruthless that the official leading the recovery has been forced into hiding, fearing for his life. An Africa Confidential Special Report by John Hamilton our North Africa correspondent and managing director of Cross-Border Information.

After three months in illegal detention – partly in one of Libya’s most brutal prisons – Mohammed al Mensli, Director-General of the Libyan Asset Recovery and Management Office...

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