Since ascending the throne in 1999, King Mohammed VI has consistently extended an olive branch to Algeria, urging the normalization of ties, the reopening of borders, and the revival of Maghreb integration. Yet, every sincere Moroccan initiative has been met with silence or hostility from Algiers. In his historic Throne Day speech on July 30, […]
Libya’s National Oil Corporation has transferred $8 billion to the count of the Finance Ministry of the Government of National Unity (GNU) of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh who has refused to give up power despite his removal by the country’s parliament. The funds, into two installments, have been sent to the Central Bank of […]
While we enter a new year, the emerging consensus among observers of the Middle East and Northern Africa is that the Arab Spring has turned into a frosty Arab Winter. Nothing speaks to this perception as strongly as the ongoing civil war in Syria, where the embattled Assad-regime, propped up by Hizbollah and Iran, is […]
