Vol 60 No 9 | ALGERIA 'Roll more heads' 3rd May 2019 Deputy Defence Minister and Chief of Staff Lt Gen Ahmed Gaïd Salah is continuing a purge of Algeria's elite to try to persuade demonstrators, who have been filling the streets...
Vol 60 No 8 | LIBYA Haftar stakes it all 19th April 2019 LNA forces have attacked Tripoli, sounding the death knell to planned peace talks and opening what could be a bitter and bloody battle Four years of efforts by the UN to end the crisis in Libya have been rendered almost futile by eastern-based strongman, General Khalifa Haftar. On 4 April, two months after his for...
Vol 60 No 8 | EGYPTSUDAN Whose chair is it anyway? 19th April 2019 It has been a week of two halves for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi. It ended with a celebration at the Heliopolis Presidential Palace of the vote in parliament on 16 April...
Vol 60 No 7 | ALGERIA Protests flush out the old guard 5th April 2019 Popular anger has finally unravelled the Bouteflika power network. Cronies are under arrest and there are doubts the deep state can survive Over the 20 years before President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned on 2 April, Algeria-watchers took to comparing the political outlook to making mayonnaise. Resistance to poor servi... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 6 | ALGERIA A spring in the step 22nd March 2019 The president may be on his way out, but who will replace him is far from clear as the protest movement ploughs on The Arab Spring has finally reached Algeria. People power on a scale not seen in 30 years forced elderly and infirm President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to agree not to stand for a fifth...
Vol 60 No 5 | LIBYA Haftar puts south in the game 8th March 2019 The Serraj camp claims all the legitimacy but General Haftar's forces now control the south – and have all the clout The Sharara oilfield is appropriately named: the Arabic word means 'spark'. It was the catalyst for a dramatic change in the strategic balance between General Khalifa Haftar's Liby...
Vol 60 No 4 | MOROCCOEUROPEAN UNIONWESTERN SAHARA Fishing for favours 22nd February 2019 Encouraged by a powerful Moroccan lobbying effort, the European Parliament decided on 12 February to endorse the new EU-Morocco Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement in appar...
Vol 60 No 3 | TUNISIA Eight years of transition 8th February 2019 As established parties gear up for elections later this year, Premier Chahed's new party hopes to offer a credible alternative Two distinct narratives dominate the political landscape eight years after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia as the Arab Spring erupted. One relates to the par...
Vol 60 No 3 | MAURITANIA President says au revoir 8th February 2019 Abdel Aziz looks ready to stand down, but he is keeping a tight rein on power and may yet decide to return The announcement that Defence Minister Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani is to be the ruling Union pour la République (UPR) candidate in this year's presidential elections ha...
Vol 60 No 2 | MOROCCO Anger and innovation 25th January 2019 The king’s new development strategy will seek to answer chronic problems that threaten the monarchy’s long-term stability There will be more glitzy openings of high-profile infrastructure like Africa's first high-speed train, coupled with headline-grabbing sackings of officials following 'colèr...
