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This 5 July marks 60 years since Algeria got its independence from France, after an occupation that lasted over 13 decades, from 1830 until 1962, only to end with...
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In a statement issued in the earlier hours of 20 June, Stephanie Williams, the United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, drew the curtain on the Cairo talks between Libyan...
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What is behind the sudden rush by four Arab states to normalise relations with Israel after decades of animosity, and what do countries like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,...
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The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is 58 years old this June, while the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 110th birthday last January. They are two of the longest...
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President Kais Saied of Tunisia is still going, sometimes with an apparent strength, despite all the rejections and disdain he has received lately from different political quarters inside the...
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The British Empire once ruled over a quarter of the world's population, from North America to India and from interior Africa to the Middle East. This June, the UK...
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In the shadows of the war in Ukraine the Biden-Harris administration has released what amounts to a policy – but less than a detailed strategy – paper aimed at...
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The European colonisation rush of conquering other peoples across the world had its own narrative and justifications to make its case for itself, and for its own public opinion...
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According to the United Nations roadmap adopted in November 2020, Libyans should have cast their votes to elect a legislative and president on 24 December, 2021, but that did...
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Over the last few months, Libya's Internal Security Agency (ISA) has rounded up seven young Libyans, accusing them of very serious crimes including that of apostasy, contempt of Islam...
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Whether France is voting, commemorating D-day or debating French identity in terms of Republic Values, Algeria is always present in some way. It is almost impossible to discuss anything...
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NATO as an organisation and through its thirty individual members has been doing its utmost to help Ukraine against Russia's invasion ever since Moscow launched its attack in February....
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It is inconceivable that last week's Negev Summit could have taken place without Saudi Arabia not only knowing about the meeting but also blessing it. Since the Abraham Accords...
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The current political impasse in Libya is unlikely to be solved over the next two months. By June, it is likely to become even more complicated because the United...
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On 2 March, 141 UN member states voted to "condemn" Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, calling it a serious violation of the UN Charter. Thirty-five countries abstained or...
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Over the last two weeks, the United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has been under sustained attacks across social media. Williams, who returned to Libya last December,...
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On 1 March, Libya's Tobruk-based Parliament voted in a new cabinet led by former Interior Minister, Fathi Bashaga, and its 29 ministers, six State Ministers and three Deputy Prime...
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Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, going on for over a week now, has been condemned across the world. However, there are countries that had to walk a very...
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Late last January, French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said that Mali's new authorities was "illegitimate and takes irresponsible measures" describing the military government in Bamako as "out of...
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African Heads of States and governments meeting at the African Union's Summit (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 5 February decided to revoke Israel's observer status to the continental...
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The reappointment, earlier last December, of Stephanie Williams as Special Advisor on Libya to the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, came at a critical moment for the political process...
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On Monday, 1 February, Libya's Tobruk based parliament started accepting nominations for the post of Prime Minister to replace the current caretaker premier, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, in what is...
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Already exhausted in the Syrian mediation efforts, Staffan de Mistura, has just been appointed, by the United Nations Secretary-General, as his envoy to Western Sahara's decades' long dispute. Mr....
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Fighting corruption in state institutions and the public sector remains the top priority in Algeria this year as it hopes to improve the domestic situation and prevent the return...
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Tunisia began 2022 just as troubled as it ended the previous year, in which the milestone was marked on 25 July by a President who believed, and still does,...
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The handouts are not meant as loans to be paid back, but simply free money given to people to help them get married. Governments, around the world, help people...
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On 24 December, the United Kingdom embassy in Tripoli, Libya, issued a statement on its Twitter and Facebook accounts that, at first, looked like a routine statement on developments...
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A delegation of seven Libyan parliamentarians, headed by deputy speaker Fawzi Al-Nuwairi, visited Ankara last week and met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in what is seen as a...
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On 6 December, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, appointed Stephanie Williams, nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by some Libyan politicians, as his Special Advisor on Libya, SASG on...
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If Libyans really go to the polls as planned, on 24 December, it will be a moment of history-making and a new reality in the conflict ravaged country. The...
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Tunisia's President, Kais Saied, vehemently denies what he did in Tunisia is, literally, a constitutional coup, as his adversaries claim. The President might feel comfortable if we describe his...
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It has been announced that 98 individuals, including two women, submitted their applications to contest Libya's 24 December presidential election. The list included a militia-linked suspect, Libya's top comedian,...