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...
Vol 43 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Our American friends 11th January 2002 America's disaster has paid dividends for anti-Islamist Muslim rulers The Presidents of Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, got an unexpected boost from the atrocities of 11 September. They bro...
Vol 42 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA Industry and Islamism 12th January 2001 In Algeria, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika faces a difficult year, with the prospect of new threats from rivals in the Algiers establishment (AC Vol 41 No 22). He must convince sce...
Vol 41 No 1 | NORTH AFRICA New brooms 7th January 2000 In Algeria, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's honeymoon period won't survive the end of Ramadan this weekend. Expect a tough military-led Islamist campaign early in the year, then s...
Vol 38 No 14 | NORTH AFRICA Polls at a price 4th July 1997 Elections are managed in the Maghreb to keep out Islamists and tempt investors Morocco's local elections on 13 June set out the conditions for co-existence by the government and political parties. This followed February's 'gentlemen's agreement' between Inter...
