The rising tension between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario is threatening peace and stability in a region already struggling to curb the surge of terrorist groups. Algeria, keen to have an outlet into the Atlantic Ocean, has hosted and armed the Polisario separatists in the early 1970s and pushed them to declare “an independent republic”. […]
Tunisia is rocked by popular protests over the deteriorating social and economic situation, lack of employment, growing poverty and failure to fulfil the goals of the Jasmine revolution, which toppled the authoritarian regime of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Clashes between police and Tunisian authorities took place in several regions over the […]
Algerians from all walks of life continued to suffer in 2021 from acute shortage of bread, milk, cooking oil, potatoes, sugar, pasta, oxygen for covid-19 patients and ICU beds, while their rulers are squandering the country’s petrodollars on military expenditure. Such explosive social situation with deepening political crisis is fueling Hirak pro-democracy protestors demanding a […]
