Sahara: Tunisia faced with the Algerian-Moroccan rivalry Akram Belkaid, March 2017 For fear of a quarrel with its Algerian neighbour or a clash with Rabat, Tunisia maintains a “positive neutrality” in the Western Sahara question which has pitted Algeria against Morocco since the (…) Algeria Is Losing Ground in Africa A laborious updating Lakhdar Benchiba, March 2017 On January 30, 2017, a majority of African countries voted to allow Morocco back into the African Union despite Algerian (and South African) opposition over the question of Western Sahara. The diplomatic ties (…) Libya: Russia Plays a New Card Igor Delanoë, February 2017 The trip to Moscow, planned for this February by Fayez Al-Sarraj, head of the Tripoli government recognised by the UN, as well as the two trips to the Russian capital by General Khalifa Haftar in 2016, illustrate Russia’s increasing (…) The United Arab Emirates have it in for the Muslim Brotherhood Marc Cher-Leparrain (1956-2019), February 2017 Less populated and less hegemonic than Saudi Arabia, more discreet than Qatar, the United Arab Emirates has been not less active, especially since 2011, to fight political Islam in all its (…) When France Used the Public Debt to Colonise Morocco Adam Barbe, February 2017 It is now widely recognised that the French protectorate over Morocco was acquired thanks to that country’s public debt. Guy de Maupassant in Bel Ami (1885) alludes to this possibility twenty years before (…) Syrian Crisis: Back to Square One? Joseph Bahout, February 2017 After the recent fall of Aleppo to the Syrian regime and the inauguration of President Donald Trump in the United States, Syria found itself in a fundamentally new situation. Russia engaged in an enormous show of force in Aleppo, one met (…) Algeria’s Independence: The Forgotten Protests that Forged a Nation Mathieu Rigouste, February 2017 By the end of 1957, France claimed political dissent in Algieria had been eradicated. Yet soon the Algerian people were to take to the streets to reclaim their independence in a chapter that remains largely unknown. On 11 December 1960, three years after the Battle of Algiers, large-scale popular uprisings overcame French military oppression and changed the course of the Algerian revolution. Since National Liberation Front (FLN) organisations in the cities and (…) The “Border Burners” in the Algerian Press Crisis of migrants or crisis of the West? Farida Souiah, January 2017 Offenders? Victims? Resistants? Who are these clandestine immigrants trying to leave the country by “burning borders”, described in the Algerian dailies? (…) “Civil Society” in Tunisia: the Ambivalence of a New Seat of Power Hèla Yousfi , January 2017 In 2015 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian national dialogue in recognition of the example set by civil society in that country. But there is no avoiding the fact (…) Turkey Trapped in the Syrian Crisis Samim Akgönül, January 2017 For some ten years now, Turkey’s regonal policies have been characterised by U-turns and changes of heart. Henceforth, Ankara is bogged down in the Syrian crisis, caught between Kurdish demands and the terrorist attacks of ISIS. On (…) Saudi Arabia mired in the quicksand of the Middle East Between War in Yemen and War of Succession Alain Gresh, January 2017 Two years after his accession to the throne, King Salman faces many challenges. The intervention in Yemen is bogged down and Saudi Arabia suffers (…) The Illusory Reform of the Algerian Economy Jean-Pierre Sereni, January 2017 Visiting Algiers in November, Jean-François Dauphin, chief of the International Monetary Fund’s mission for Algeria, expressed the hope that in future the country’s “development would be led more by the private sector and be less dependent on petroleum.” In other words, the private sector should supplant public expenditure financed by oil revenues as the motor of the Algerian economy. But things are not that simple. With the collapse of the price of crude oil, from $112.66 a barrel in (…) 0 | ... | 456 | 468 | 480 | 492 | 504 | 516 | 528 | 540 | 552 | 564