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Algeria uses separatists as proxies to unsettle Mali after withdrawal of Polisario recognition

The Alqaeda-linked JNIM terrorists and Tuareg separatists have joined forces in a series of tactical attacks on the capital Bamako and several localities in Mali’s desert north, a region long treated by Algeria as a buffer zone to export terrorist activities. Led by Iyad Ag Ghali, the JNIM, is an offshoot of Al Qaeda in […]

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How Morocco’s Guergarat Operation Foiled Algeria’s Plot to Create Refugee Camp in Lagouira

The anti-smuggling operation that Morocco launched to clear the southernmost tip of the Saharan provinces of all sorts of illegal commercial activities had a geopolitical impact in terms of barring the road for Algeria and its allies in Nouakchott from creating a camp where they intended to dislocate some of the population held against their […]