Tunisia: Water Scarcity Hits Country, People Called to Pray for Rain

The warning launched last month by Watchwater, Tunisia’s citizen water observatory, about a “thirst uprising” is becoming increasingly evident. The observatory had warned that “the failure to find urgent and sound solutions will increase protests across the country.” The authorities are aware of the problem but have no solution at hand. State Secretary for Water […]

Turkey as a ‘Role Model’ in the MENA Region after the Arab Spring

The Arab revolutions of 2011 have brought into immediate focus the following question related to Turkey’s foreign policy: ‘Can Turkey’s economic and political model become a reference-point for the region’s post-autocratic societies, similar to the EU for east-central Europe after 1989?’. Indeed, many political observers see the revolutions in the Arab countries as a chance […]

New Revelations about Polisario Element, Member of Busted Terror Cell

The Polisario member who was arrested by Morocco’s counterterrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), during the dismantling Thursday of a terror cell is a separatist who underwent training to the handling of weapons in the Polisario-run camps in Tindouf. According to a security source, quoted by the news portal le360, the detainee, […]