Vol 37 No 8 | EGYPT When the Pharaoh calls 12th April 1996 Cairo's attempts to resuscitate Nasser's pan- African schemes have foundered Egypt has two goals for its African policy: the prestige of leading the continent and the defence of the Nile waters. The aspiration to leadership stems largely from...
Vol 37 No 8 | TUNISIA Big Ben Ali strikes 12th April 1996 Few things escape the watchful and computerised eyes of the Presidency Zine el Abidine Ben Ali showed off his self-confidence by spending 20 March, the 40th anniversary of Independence, being filmed on a visit to Habib Bourguiba, the President-for-Life...
Vol 37 No 8 | MOROCCO Palace moves 12th April 1996 The King is better. After a painful recovery from bronchial pneumonia, he attended the Sharm el Sheikh terrorism summit in March and means to visit his old friend...
Vol 37 No 5 | MOROCCO Bad luck 1st March 1996 The honeymoon with the markets is over and the kingdom faces new political problems A run of bad luck has hit Morocco. Even the recent heavy rains, which ended two years of drought in the Maghreb and brought the promise of good...
Vol 37 No 5 | LIBYA Unsanctioned 1st March 1996 US companies fear their Libyan oil holdings may be picked off by European rivals When President Bill Clinton hosted President Jacques Chirac in January, a crucial item was missing from the summit agenda: Libyan oil. The omission is extraordinary as a row...
Vol 37 No 5 | MOROCCO Ganja grief 1st March 1996 Business leaders, among others, are complaining that Interior and Information Minister Driss Basri has been using the kingdom's latest crackdown on drugs smugglers to consolidate his shaky power...
Vol 37 No 2 | ALGERIA Zeroual's next move 19th January 1996 Disarray in the Islamist opposition is making the President more confident Following his convincing win in November's election, President Lamine Zeroual faces the much harder task of holding legislative elections this year. Harder for him because he hasn't got...