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  • Libya Restart: a journey analysis

    Since 2014 UNIMED has committed its work to support Higher Education Institutions in crisis emergencies, promoting cooperation as a priority, through capacity building, mobility, exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge. In our view, Higher Education can represent the spine…

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    Tags : Libya, Libya restart, UNIMED,

  • Morocco Fighting Against COVID-19: Drastic Times Call for Drastic Measures

    Like many countries, Morocco is expected to undergo a severe economic slowdown this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The combined effect of poor crop year and the implications of confinement policy in the secondary and tertiary sectors has led to a downward …

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    Tags : Morocco, covid 19, pandemic,

  • Pourquoi les juifs du Maghreb sont-ils partis ?

    La colonisation européenne a profondément bouleversé la coexistence entre les communautés juives et musulmanes. La France a engagé une politique d’assimilation des juifs d’Algérie en leur accordant la citoyenneté française par le décret Crémieux de 1870. Divisant pour régner, il les sépara des musulmans bientôt soumis au drastique code de l’indigénat. Après 1881, les juifs tunisiens scolarisés dans des écoles françaises s’assimilèrent à la culture et à la langue française. Le décret d’extension de la nationalité française aux Tunisiens permit d’accorder celle-ci à 6 667 juifs entre 1924 et 1939.

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    Tags : Maghreb, juifs,

  • Algeria to keep borders closed until COVID-19 ends

    Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday announced that the country will keep the land, air and sea borders closed until the end of the COVID-19 crisis, the official APS news agency reported. President Tebboune also…

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    Tags : Algeria; coronavirus; covid 19, borders, travels,

  • Talks may lead to end of blockade of Libyan oilfields

    Forces loyal to the Libyan warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar may be willing to end their blockade of the country’s oilfields, opening the way for a ceasefire, as a result of talks between the UN, US, France and Egypt. Under a deal under discussion for the past two weeks, the Libyan National Oil Corporation…

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    Tags : Libya, oilfields,

  • Algeria’s rulers consolidate grip as economy falters

    When people started dying of Covid-19 in Algeria in March, protesters called a halt to the weekly demonstrations that had rocked the country for more than a year and toppled President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. With the streets …

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    Tags : Algeria, coronavirus, covid 19, pandemic, protests,

  • Algeria’s Hirak protesters defy virus lockdown

    Algerians resumed Monday anti-regime protests in several cities in support of detainees of the “Hirak” movement, defying the ban of demonstrations during the coronavirus pandemic. The protests took place during the Eid Al-Fitr celebrations…

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    Tags : Algeria, Hirak, protests, covid 19, coronavirus,

  • The next steps in Libya

    There has been mildly encouraging news out of Libya in recent months, almost nine years after the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi led to chaos rather than an improvement in governance and stability. The international community has ignored many chances to help the country get back on…

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    Tags : Libya, stability, 

  • Libyan Civil War: A reality check through VHR satellite imagery

    Oil & Gas-rich Libya has been in chaos since the Arab spring movement and NATO bombing campaign that toppled Gaddafi in 2011. Attempts to build a democratic state after Gaddafi fell disintegrated into a new Libyan Civil War between rival governments in 2014. Since then the fighting…

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    Tags : Libya, satellite imagery,

  • Algeria out of the picture in the Libyan crisis and for a reason

    During a visit by Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune to the Ministry of National Defence in Algiers on June 2, the Army’s chief of staff, Major General Said Chengriha, spoke highly of the proposed preliminary draft to revise…

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    Tags : Algeria, Libya crisis, diplomacy,