Vol 52 No 3 | NORTH AFRICA Playing dominoes 4th February 2011 The autocratic regimes in Algeria and Libya are making concessions in the hope of resisting the democracy movement that started in Tunisia For now, Algiers is what locals call 'normal', a condition in which roadblocks and tight security prevail, mixed with spiralling living costs, massive overcrowding and poor publi...
Vol 51 No 14 | NORTH AFRICAEAST AFRICA Crisis on the Nile 9th July 2010 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 min...
Vol 50 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Whiskey doubles all round 9th January 2009 All of North Africa’s leaders will have something to celebrate in 2009, even if the majority of their populations won’t North Africa’s leaders are among the longest-serving in the world and the most immune to democratic impulses. In comparison, Africa south of the Sahara with its multiparty election...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 9 | ALGERIACHINAAFRICANORTH AFRICABRIEFING Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa 31st July 2009 More signs are emerging that China is being drawn inexorably into Africa's internal politics and is being compelled to take sides in wider geopolitical disputes. This time, the t...
Vol 49 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Elite and underground politics 11th January 2008 Islamist militants vie with ageing autocrats for political supremacy while the region’s voters look for jobs and security Algeria starts 2008 haunted by the threat of a return to wide-ranging Islamist terrorism and political inertia as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika looks set to change the constitutio...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 7 | NORTH AFRICAASIA Contract Cavalcade 7th November 2008 The last few months have seen a sharp increase in Asian involvement in North Africa Asian companies are making headway in North Africa. In April, South Korea's Daewoo Engineering emerged as the preferential bidder on a US$650 million town project, complete with r...
Vol 48 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Old soldiers never die 12th January 2007 Intimations of mortality are becoming more evident but the region is dominated by septuagenarian zaims While intimations of mortality grow ever greater for North Africa’s veteran political leaders, septuagenarian zaïms (big men) will continue to run much of the region. Age it seems...
Vol 47 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Ponderous politicians 6th January 2006 Political change is lagging well behind the governments' market economic strategies EGYPT: President and retired airforce General Hosni Mubarak retains great faith in his political longevity. He cracks down on dissenters, reflected in the five-year gaol term hande...
Vol 46 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Time to deliver 7th January 2005 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 ...
Vol 45 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Fresh start for old faces 9th January 2004 Elections in Algeria and Tunisia, and Libya's opening to the West, will give familiar faces a new look. The Libyan regime watched Iraq like a hawk and President Saddam Hussein's ov...
