Vol 42 No 25 | MOROCCO Honeymoon over 21st December 2001 The government isn't working: palace and parties will fight for the political initiative Next year the King will marry an old friend, Salma Bennani, a commoner and an engineer in Guemassa, the mining arm of the conglomerate ONA. That should raise...
Vol 42 No 23 | ALGERIA Sweeping away 23rd November 2001 Floods made large parts of Algiers a sea of mud on 10 November. They were a nightmare for ordinary citizens, many of whom dug out neighbours with their...
Vol 42 No 21 | WESTERN SAHARA Murky depths 26th October 2001 Hopes that the people of Western Sahara might one day decide their own future (AC Vol 42 No 10) have been dealt a possibly fatal blow by Rabat's...
Vol 42 No 20 | EGYPT Islamism begins at home 12th October 2001 Egypt's war against terrorism is not quite the same as America's Egypt has officially given its blessing to the United States' air campaign against Afghanistan, though it waited till the last minute to do so. President Hosni Mubarak was...
Vol 42 No 16 | TUNISIA Ben Ali for a fourth 10th August 2001 Africa's 'change the constitution' movement has now crept north to Tunisia, where the ruling Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique wants to persuade' President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to stand...
Vol 42 No 14 | LIBYAORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY Gadaffi's big tent 13th July 2001 Irritating Western powers is an enduring spectator sport in Africa as the continuing interest in Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi shows (AC Vol 42 No 11). Addressing several hundred...
Vol 42 No 12 | ALGERIA One musketeer 15th June 2001 President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has again threatened to resign as Kabyle protests mobilise hundreds of thousands of demonstrators and rival power-brokers enfeeble his presidency.
Vol 42 No 11 | LIBYA Got your number 1st June 2001 Oil industry circles are intrigued by an emerging Libyan-connected oil trading firm registered in Zurich.
Vol 42 No 11 | EGYPT Authoritarian urge 1st June 2001 It is inconceivable that the seven-year gaol sentence passed by a High State Security Court on 21 May against Saadeddin Ibrahim, a sociologist at the American University in...
Vol 42 No 10 | ALGERIA The old-timers 18th May 2001 Brutality against Kabyle protesters and retired generals cause problems for Boutef Whatever President Abdelaziz Bouteflika may have achieved during two years in office, it is not peace. Violence continues, involving the Groupe Islamique Armée (GIA) and the Groupe Salafiste...