Vol 61 No 14 | LIBYA Lobbying grenades 9th July 2020 General Khalifa Haftar may be in retreat on the battlefield after his Libyan National Army was forced away from Tripoli back to its eastern strongholds but the war for the support ...
Vol 61 No 14 | ALGERIA Reshuffles and releases 9th July 2020 There was something for everyone to celebrate on Independence Day, 5 July, as President Abdelmajid Tebboune named 74-year-old Major General Saïd Chengriha as his permanent Chief of...
Vol 61 No 13 | EGYPT The big borrow 25th June 2020 Cairo has lined up external credit worth $15bn to help it deal with Covid-19, but the debt will be sustainable only if there is a rapid recovery The first hard indication of the extent of the damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic on Egypt’s finances came in early April, when the central bank released data showi...
Vol 61 No 13 | ALGERIA Locking down the system 25th June 2020 The elite is using the pandemic to consolidate its position while the grass-roots opposition struggles to regain traction President Abdelmajid Tebboune's government is emerging from the coronavirus crisis financially much poorer but more politically secure, as the lockdown has given the post-Abdelaziz...
Vol 61 No 12 | LIBYA Haftar falls back 11th June 2020 Now that General Haftar is in retreat, he says he’s backing Egypt’s ceasefire plan. The government in Tripoli may try to finish him off first Fourteen months after launching his 'lightning' offensive to seize the Libyan capital and oust the UN-recognised Government of National Accord, eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar...
Vol 61 No 11 | LIBYA West too wild for Haftar 28th May 2020 Although his Libyan National Army (LNA) still controls eastern and southern Libya, General Khalifa Haftar has suffered a string of heavy defeats in western Libya, leaving his hopes...
Vol 61 No 8 | MAURITANIA Ambition runs out of gas 16th April 2020 Like leaders across the region, President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is preoccupied with the fight to contain Covid-19, of which there have, so far, been seven confirmed cases and one ...
Vol 61 No 7 | EGYPTCOVID-19 Army steps up role 2nd April 2020 Egypt has been one of countries most severely affected in Africa, with cases approaching 1,000 and deaths nearing 50 as March came to an end. The first cases were linked with a Nil...
Vol 61 No 7 | ALGERIACOVID-19 Protests on pause 2nd April 2020 Algerians became accustomed to staying at home during the 1990s conflict between the state and radical Islam. The extent to which they are prepared to observe the lockdown was evid...
Vol 61 No 7 | TUNISIACOVID-19 The spring unsprung 2nd April 2020 The fifth most infected country in Africa, Tunisia is also the only relative success story of the 2011 Arab Spring, but there are fears that the coronavirus could destroy all that ...