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Hugh Lovatt’s ECFR has published again a piece on the European Council on Foreign Relations that serves best as a textbook exercise in selective framing and pro-Algeria and pro-Moscow advocacy dressed up as European strategic advice. Lovatt portrays the end of MINURSO as a reckless American “miscalculation” that risks war, while casting Morocco as the […]
Two weeks after the Algerian Parliament approved the deployment of military units in Niger, Niamey has signed in Benghazi a strategic cooperation agreement with the authorities of eastern Libya, backed by Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who has strained relations with the Algerian regime. The cooperation agreement was inked by Niger Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine […]
The relationship between Morocco and the UN mission in the Sahara territory (MINURSO) was marked by persistent tensions and disagreements throughout its more than three decades of existence. Created on 29 April 1991 by UN Security Council Resolution 690, MINURSO was tasked with monitoring the ceasefire that took effect on 6 September that year. The […]
The Russian veto that blocked a US-backed UN Security Council resolution on the Sahara issue on 30 October is being interpreted as evidence of Algeria’s growing dependence on Moscow. In a commentary published on 3 November, French Africanist historian Bernard Lugan argued that the veto amounted to a “receipt” for services rendered. According to Lugan, […]
Algeria is tightening its grip on the African Union Commission through its vice-president, Selma Malika Haddadi, according to a report by Africa Intelligence published on 3 November. Elected in February 2025 as AU Commission vice-president in charge of finance and human resources, Haddadi is already positioning herself for the presidency in 2029, when the post […]
U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson has lambasted Russia, Algeria and Polisario after Moscow vetoed a widely supported US draft resolution endorsing Autonomy plan in the Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty and restructuring the UN Mission. “The goal of Russia is further destabilization of Africa”, said the Congressman in a comment posted Saturday on his X account. The […]
In a sharply worded op-ed published on 29 October 2026, the Franco-Algerian writer and intellectual Boualem Sansal argues that Morocco has decisively outpaced Algeria in the long-running contest for regional leadership and influence across Africa. The OP-ed published by le350, frames the rivalry between the two North African neighbors as an ongoing “match without a […]
UN Secretariat has abruptly scrapped a photographic exhibition hostile to Morocco’s territorial integrity, dealing a hard blow to the Algerian military regime, its Polisario armed militias and their supporters. The exhibition was organized by Namibia with the support of Algeria, Belize, South Africa, Timor-Leste, and Uganda, in one of the corridors of the United Nations […]
Algeria’s emerging military role in Niger raises a fundamental question: what exactly does Algeria bring to the Sahel besides what seems to be self-serving troop deployment? For decades, Algerian officials presented themselves as champions of regional stability. Yet many of the jihadist movements that have destabilized the Sahel trace their origins, leadership, or ideological lineage […]
A revised draft UN Security Council resolution on the Sahara issue has eased some language found in an earlier version, but it preserves the key political elements that have sparked debate ahead of a scheduled vote on October 30. The new draft continues to frame Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the sole basis for negotiating a […]