Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has declared his country to be virus free. However, local human rights organisations, including UNPO Member IRA have begun to question the official count. The reason for distrust lies…
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Tags : Mauritania, coronavirus, covid 19,
Although protests successfully ended Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s 20-year sultanistic rule a little over one year ago, demands have been continuing to dismantle the system, get rid of the old personnel, and institute democracy. The controversial election…
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Tags : Algeria, coronavirus, covid 19, pandemic,
Almost two months after the first reported case of Covid-19 on March 4, Morocco has largely succeeded in averting a serious health crisis. Of the 14,500 tests carried out as at April 21, 11,300 negative cases and 3,209 positive cases were reported, with 163 deaths and 393 patients now…
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Tags : Morocco, covid 19,
Rights groups accuse some authoritarian governments of using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to further limit free expression. But in the North African country of Algeria, the trend is partly going the other way. As brand names go, Radio Corona Internationale or RCI is probably in a league of its own. Launched last month on Facebook and Soundcloud…
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Tags : Algeria, pandemic, covid 19, radio corona,
The region stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Maghreb is vital to both French and European interests. Home to the world’s largest hydrocarbon reserves, it has been affected by multiple crises for several decades. Its stability is essential to the balance of the globalized world, both economically and in terms of security. What will be the impact of the Covid-19 crisis in this region? How are different countries dealing with the situation? What will be the political and social consequences for each of them? Who will be benefiting in the Arab world, and how will the power play between the United States, China and Russia be affected?
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Tags : Maghreb, Europe, covid 19,
A Moroccan proverb goes: “the sheep spends his whole life being afraid of the wolf, but in the end, who feasts on the sheep? The shepherd!” Well, some months after China and 10 days after Italy, Moroccan authorities announced the country’s first cases of COVID-19 on 2 March…
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Tags : Morocco, capitalism, covid 19,
The Maghreb presents itself in dispersed order in the face of the coronavirus, without any cohesion or solidarity, each country facing its own concerns. Social tensions in Tunisia, authority and outbreaks of Islamist fever in Morocco, sanitary bankruptcy in Libya, Algerian protests in search of a new breath and the Mauritanian desert protecting a population tired of confinement: the management of the pandemic heralds the post-crisis period: a disarticulation of the Maghreb scene in a world that has become multipolar, where Beijing will not fail to pursue its regional “entryism” by promulgating health as a vector of power.
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Tags : Maghreb, pandemic, covid 19, coronavirus,
The people happened to be in Morocco when the borders were closed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Citizens with the Belgian nationality only have the right to return home, but those with a double nationality can’t leave the country. They will have to meet certain demands imposed by the Moroccan government if they want to return, says the Belgian Foreign Minister Philippe Goffin, since the Moroccan government is interpreting international rules in this respect very strictly.
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Tags : Morocco, coronavirus, covid 19, Belgium,
Libya, a country at war and the center of a conflict aggravated by the interference of regional and international powers, could soon be the most punished country in the region by the coronavirus because of its weak health system in the war current context and the influx of flights and military personnel from abroad. Youssef Cherif, a Maghreb-based political analyst and director of the Columbia Global Centers (Tunis), offered an overview of the impact of the coronavirus on the Maghreb during a video-conference today organised by the IEMed.
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Tags : Maghreb, coronavirus, covid 19, pandemic,
When Hadda Chalbi received a call from the local hospital last week, she did not expect to be told that her only brother had set himself on fire and fallen into a coma. Unemployed, physically disabled and with a child on the way, Hammadi Chalbi’s desperation had become too much to bear, leading the 32-year-old to self-immolate outside the local government …
Read more from the source : Aljazeera
Tags : Tunisia, covid 19, coronavirus,