The failing health of Algeria’s President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, coupled with uncertainties surrounding his successor amid a power struggle within the country’s security apparatus bode ill for Algeria as it braces for a “contested or rocky succession,” the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said in a report. The report, which offers advice to US foreign […]
Morocco has decided to suspend all contacts with European institutions and notably with the European Commission and the European Parliament in reaction to a court ruling invalidating the agriculture agreement binding it to the European Union. The decision was announced on Thursday shortly after it was made by the weekly cabinet meeting, which translated thus […]
The widely-circulated US daily New York Times painted a very bleak picture of the situation in Algeria, where signals for a new dawn are fading away, and where the system renews itself ceaselessly and refuses to change. The revolt in the streets that began last year, known as Hirak, initially appeared to signal a new […]
