December 17, 2020, marked ten years since Mohammad Bouazizi immolated himself in a small town in Tunisia. His death on January 4, 2011, unleashed a chain of events that led to national protests and uprisings first in Tunisia, then in Libya…
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Tags : Maghreb, arab spring, protests,
De nouvelles alliances se font et défont les anciennes avec le concours de nouveaux acteurs régionaux et internationaux dont la mission est justement de précipiter la fin du Maghreb, rappelait bien à propos un éditorialiste. Un pas est franchi et le retour en arrière est presque impossible ! Contrairement au couple franco-allemand, le couple algéro-marocain, qui n’a jamais fait bon ménage, semble être définitivement condamné. Les implications géopolitiques de l’épisode de Guerguerat ont scellé la rupture. Les équilibres précaires qui, jusqu’ici, ont pu permettre au Maghreb de maintenir la tête hors de l’eau sont rompus (1) !
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Tags : Maghreb, UMA, Sahara Occidental,
PARIS – A veteran jihadist on UN and US terror lists was named al-Qaeda’s chief in North Africa, replacing Abdelmalek Droukdel following his killing by French forces in Mali last June. Abou Oubaida Youssef al-Annabi (real name Yazid Moubarak), an Algerian national born in 1969, is the new leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), according to the SITE terrorism monitoring group. He is a well-known veteran among jihadist insurgencies wreaking havoc in North Africa but experts say it is unclear what path he will chart to assert his authority.
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Tags : Maghreb, Al Qaeda, Abou Oubaida Youssef al-Annabi,
In the short term, the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to provide the governments of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia with a respite from political contestation and mobilization. They have all struggled to varying degrees recently with popular dissent and challenges to their legitimacy. But in the long run, as each grapple with the economic and political aftershocks of the virus, the same questions of credibility and efficiency are likely to come back with renewed vigor.
Read more from the source : Carnegie Middle East Center
Tags : Maghreb, Covid 19, coronavirus, pandemic,
Aside from the ties of heritage, religion and language that group the Maghreb countries, another more important reality binds them: Insufficient growth to alleviate youth unemployment. The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), founded in 1989, was in 2017 described by King Mohammed VI of Morocco as effectively dead. The once-ambitious organization, which hoped to unite Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania, is today, if not dead, then at least in a state of paralysis. However, given the devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic on regional economies, there is a distinct opportunity to grow what is, at present, the least economically integrated region in the world.
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Tags : Maghreb, Egypte, AMU,
Le couscous, plat populaire emblématique de l’Afrique du Nord, a été inscrit sur la liste du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’Unesco, après une candidature commune de pays du Maghreb, a annoncé mercredi cette institution des Nations unies sur son site web. Fait rare, l’Algérie, le Maroc, la Mauritanie et la Tunisie ont porté ensemble le dossier « Savoirs, savoir-faire et pratiques liés à la production et à la consommation du couscous », sans se disputer la paternité de ce plat traditionnel à base de semoule ou de blé dur, servi avec légumes, viande ou poisson savamment épicés.
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Tags : Maghreb, couscous, UNESCO,
The “Central Section of Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis” project aims at completing the missing links of the Central Section of the Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis, connecting the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian national motorway networks. The project will provide a continuous motorway corridor from Agadir (Morocco) to Ras Jedir (Tunisian-Libyan border).
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Tags : Maghreb, Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis, Union for the Mediterranean,
In 1990, a year after the creation of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), the then-King of Morocco, Hassan II, best summed up pan-Maghreb ambitions stating that: “our aim is to turn the Arab Maghreb into one country with one passport… one identity and a single currency”. Thirty years on, very little has been achieved at the leadership-level in integrating these countries, therefore defying the economic forces of gravity.
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Those who want the Arab Maghreb Union to bolster Morocco need to question the timing of their military campaign and realize two things: annexing Western Sahara to the Mekhzen does not guarantee Maghreb unity, just as recognizing the self-determination of the Sahrawi people does not break that hope. Western Sahara has never been part of Morocco. After World War II, a wave of liberation movements swept over the European colonies in Africa. While Morocco achieved its independence from the French in 1956, Western Sahara remained under Spanish control. In 1958, the colonial administration there announced that Western Sahara was a Spanish province.
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Magreb Union,
Abdelilah Benkirane effectue une nouvelle sortie médiatique à dimension internationale. L’ancien chef de gouvernement a été, hier soir, l’invité d’une conférence virtuelle consacrée au thème : «l’Union maghrébine : défis et enjeux». Organisée par le «Centre Attaraqui des études stratégiques», basé à Alger, l’organisme est proche du Mouvement Liberté et Justice sociale, formation politique créée en 2009 par Anouar Haddam, ancienne figure du Front islamique du salut (FIS) dissout.
A cette occasion, Benkirane a réitéré l’appel du Maroc à destination du pouvoir algérien afin de rouvrir les frontières terrestres. Il s’est dit convaincu que le royaume est disposé à répondre à toutes les initiatives devant permettre un retour au contexte qui prévalait avant août 1994.
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Tags : Maroc, Algérie, Maghreb,