Algeria’s shaky regime grips Tunisia like a lifeline, preferring a compliant neighbour to a competitive one; it now treats the country as a de facto wilaya and backs Kaïs Saïed’s tenure to keep Tunis under its influence, says the NY-based Geopolitics magazine. Algeria is locked in an archaic rent-seeking system nurtured by anti-Moroccan nationalism. It […]
Algeria continues to struggle with its residual terrorism as numerous militant groups have emerged since the 1990s and evolved according to geopolitical trends with the Islamic State being the latest group to gain presence in the country, said the London-based risk analysis publication, the Global Risk Insight. The publication points out in an article entitled, […]
For extending its political term which expired on February 7, Libya’s members of parliament have received threats from two powerful Libyan militia groups if they refuse to step down. In a televised joint statement, the al-Qaaqaa and al-Sawaaq militias called on the parliament to hand over power by 9 p.m. in order to avoid detention. […]
