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...
Vol 44 No 10 | NORTH AFRICA Hands across the water 16th May 2003 After the Iraq war, the European Union looks south once again There was plenty of shock and awe in the Maghreb and other corners of the Arab world at the speedy collapse of President Saddam Hussein's regime. No North African government suppor...
Vol 44 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA A defining terror 10th January 2003 Expanding economies and dealing with Islamism dominate policy North Africa's international relations will be defined this year, as last, by two things: the United States-led 'war on terrorism', targeting Islamist radicals, and efforts to inte...
Vol 43 No 6 | NORTH AFRICA Cross-border pressures 22nd March 2002 Regional quarrels are rumbling across the Maghreb A ten-year ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario Front liberation movement is in danger of being broken, now that the United Nations is threatening to pull out of Western Sah...
Vol 43 No 5 | NORTH AFRICA Branch office 8th March 2002 The European Commission is contemplating yet another development bank, this time to boost the integration of North Africa's economies into the European-Mediterranean market a...
