Algérie

Algeria: Bendjedid Versus the Hardliners (CIA Archives, 1986)

Tags : Algeria, Chadli Bendjedid, CIA Archives, United States, Libya, Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario, Front, Declassified in Part – Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/27: CIA-RDP86T01017R000303020001-2 Central Intelligence AgencyINTELLIGENCEWashington, DC 20505DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE This memorandum

Maghreb

The Maghreb: After Oujda (CIA Archives, 1986)

Tags : Maghreb, Morocco, Libya, Treaty of Oujda, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Algeria, United States, Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/24: CIA-RDP86T01017R000303110001-2 Central Intelligence Agency29 September 1986The Maghreb: After Oujda King Hassan’s decision on 29 August

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The legacy of the French military intervention in Mali (I)

Tags: Mali, France, Serval, Barkhane, Burkina Faso, Libya, Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy,IntroductionBruno CharbonneauDirector of the Center FrancoPaixFull Professor, Royal Military College Saint-Jean Not everything started in Mali in 2012. Important precedents, which should not be forgotten,

Maghreb

Libya – Destruction of a Nation

Libya, Muammar Al Gaddafi, Arab Spring, NATO, Western powers, In 2011, Libya’s longtime dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi was overthrown and killed by French-backed rebels.A decade later, once high hopes for a « Libyan Spring » have long since

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Does Israel support an independent state in Azawad?

Israel, Mali, Azawad, Tuaregs, Algeria, Morocco, Berbers, Libya, Tunisia, Niger, Sahel,On April 27, 2012, Anna Mahjar-Barducci, an Italian-Moroccan journalist and author, president of the Rome-based Association of Liberal and Democratic Arabs, in an article published

Opinions & analyses

There is still hope for Tunisia

Tunisia has returned to the fore, through the wave of unrest it is witnessing, on the tenth anniversary of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s departure from the country following the “Jasmine Revolution.” Until today, the circumstances

Opinions & analyses

Has the EU lost Libya to Russia?

Located just a two-hour flight or a short boat trip away from its southern shores, Libya is a country in Europe’s immediate neighbourhood. Political shifts and conflicts in this oil-rich Northern African nation have immediate