“Can Algeria be saved?” wonders the International Policy Digest, which rang the alarm bell concerning Algeria’s explosive mix: regime opacity, ailing economy, dwindling oil revenues, widespread corruption, fragile social cohesion and lingering terrorist threat. The US political magazine points to the internal rivalry within Algeria’s military junta and its inability to reach an agreement on […]
Russia has urged a halt of hostilities in the Sahara and stressed on the need for a political solution, after the Algeria-backed Polisario announced unilaterally that it will continue to violate a UN-brokered ceasefire. The Moroccan Royal Armed Forces have carried out an operation to clear Morocco’s only road link with the rest of Africa […]
Bilel Kobi, a senior Al Qaida member in North Africa on the run from Algerian authorities for two and a half decade, was killed in an operation carried out by the Special Unit of the Tunisian National Guard. The member of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), who served as top aide to Abu […]
