Over the past decade, the Algerian dinar has experienced a dramatic free-fall in value compared to the Moroccan dirham. In 2014, one dirham was worth ten dinars, but by 2024, this gap has doubled, with one dirham now equivalent to twenty Algerian dinars. This gap is not due to an appreciation of the dirham, which […]
American and European navies are teaming up with their counterparts from eight West African countries to conduct joint training operations off the coast of Senegal this week that are mainly aimed at combating illegal fishing off the West African coast. As unreported and unregulated fishing has spread along West Africa’s coasts, scooping up an estimate […]
In a new antisemitic move, the Algerian regime ordered the closure of a publishing house named after Franz Fanon in Boumerdes, after it published a book on Jews in Algeria. Authorities gave the pretext of “threats to security and public order, attacks on national identity, and hate speech” for its censorship. The book in question, […]
