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Hafed Al-Ghwell: Libya’s war on women Libya’s woes are often described in terms of armed factions, oil, kleptocracy, and the collapse of governance. Yet, women bare the country's

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🇩🇿 Algeria’s unemployment figures: data vs political spin
🇱🇾 The hidden cost of Libya’s crypto boom
🇲🇦 Is Morocco going too far with its deep-water ports?
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Zaid M. Belbagi: Why water security defines MENA’s future The MENA's battle against water scarcity has never been more urgent. As climate change escalates, with rising temperatures and

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Fergus Kell: Tanzania’s elections test the nation’s future Tanzania will never be the same again after the violence that engulfed the nation's October elections. A crackdown on protesters by security

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Lots to read about in our FREE 19-page magazine . . . including unemployment in #Libya, colonial-era crimes in #Africa and tensions surrounding the EU-#Morocco trade deal.

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Israel’s nuke threat shows who directs U.S. policy: “The attack . . . focused  their minds and made  them aware where they  needed to improve their  defensive capabilities.”

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Martin Jay: The EU’s fantasy of funding Ukraine There is an EU document in which it is stated there “is a problem with the financing of Ukraine”. No shit. The real problem actually comes

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Osman Mirghani: Cutting off Sudan’s mercenary supply line America’s decision to sanction the network serving as a mercenary pipeline for fighters aiding the RSF marks an important step toward disrupting Sudan’s

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Osman Mirghani: Cutting off Sudan’s mercenary supply line maghrebi.org/2025/12/11/o...

Mohamed Chebaro: EU migration reform faces uphill start The far right in Europe has been using such a narrative — that the EU is facing a mass migration threat that is bigger than the Russian

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Mohamed Chebaro: EU migration reform faces uphill start maghrebi.org/2025/12/10/m...

Polisario Front to file court appeal over EU-#Morocco trade deal . . .

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UN resolution falls short on peace for #Palestine: "...Since the truce came into force, at least 340 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers have been killed, which can hardly suggest that #Gaza is more secure."
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UN resolution falls short  on peace for #Palestine: "...Since the truce came into force, at least  340 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers have been killed, which can hardly suggest that #Gaza is more secure."

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Eddie Monkman: El Hishri is a start but Libya has a long way to go The ICC may now hold Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri in custody for crimes against humanity but Libya still has a long way to go.

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Head of Israeli unit that executed Palestinians promoted The commander of an Israeli police unit that was responsible for executing two unarmed Palestinians has reportedly been promoted, according

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🇮🇱 The head of the Israeli unit that executed unarmed Palestinians has been promoted.

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Polisario Front to file new appeal challenging EU-Morocco deal The Polisario Front will file a new appeal at the European Court by year end, challenging the EU-Morocco agricultural and fisheries agreement

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⚖️ Polisario prepares a fresh legal challenge to the EU–Morocco deal.

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Andreas Krieg: The UAE fuelled Sudan’s war, now it must end it The fall of el-Fasher has done more than redraw the map of western Sudan. It has crystallised a truth long visible to those watching the UAE's

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Andreas Krieg: The UAE fuelled Sudan’s war, now it must end it maghrebi.org/2025/12/08/a...

Marc Owen Jones: Why the far-right can’t quit Qatar Qatar is not a big country, but lately it occupies an astonishing amount of space in the imagination of a growing ecosystem of far-right

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🇩🇿 Algeria renews push to recognise colonial-era crimes
🇪🇺 Polisario to challenge EU–Morocco trade deal
⚖️ Ex-Libyan prison guard sent to The Hague
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Leonid Ragozin: How Ukraine’s scandal is reshaping the war The scandal has delivered a devastating blow to Zelenskyy’s international reputation and to the war at large. The Ukrainian president...

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Leonid Ragozin: How Ukraine’s scandal is reshaping the war maghrebi.org/2025/12/03/l...

Awale Kullane: Africa's democracy is not imported For far too long, African youth have been told that democracy is something imported, something borrowed, something foreign to their identity.

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This week’s Maghrebi Week covers Tunisia’s sweeping political sentences, Morocco’s growing defence partnerships and Algeria’s decision to host a conference on colonial-era crimes.

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Martin Jay: Israel’s nuke threat shows who directs U.S. policy It is a long-debated subject: whether it is the U.S. that controls Israel, or whether Israel’s influence over Washington has grown to the

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🇲🇦 Land spoliation in Morocco
🤝 Maghreb mediation urged in Morocco–Algeria tensions
🛟 47 migrants rescued from a trafficking gang in Libya
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Dr Ngozi Erondu: US health strategy risks widening inequality In September, the long-anticipated US First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) was released, a document whose very title feels inconsistent and

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Dr Ngozi Erondu: US health strategy risks widening inequality maghrebi.org/2025/11/26/d...

Hafed Al-Ghwell: How corruption fuels Libya’s unseen war This unseen war has hollowed out Libya's state, creating a system where public institutions function as private treasuries for armed factions

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Hafed Al-Ghwell: How corruption fuels Libya’s unseen war maghrebi.org/2025/11/26/h...

Martin Jay: Western media see the writing on the wall in Ukraine It’s hardly news these days that the western media are no longer serving both the U.S. and Ukrainian leader’s interests by lapping up the

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Martin Jay: Western media see the writing on the wall in Ukraine maghrebi.org/2025/11/27/m...

Eddie Monkman: Sudan risks being divided between east and west As first written in the Libya Gazette, like Libya, Sudan is now a country unofficially but ostensibly divided by east and west.

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🇹🇳 Tunisia suspends another NGO
🇩🇿 Algeria tones down Morocco’s Western Sahara win
🇮🇶 Iraq plans disarmament ahead of full U.S. withdrawal

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Martin Jay: Sanctions backfire and the West pays the price Does anyone really believe that Trump’s sanctions strategy has any merit when the West ends up punishing its own workers?

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Carlos Lopes: Why Africa matters at COP30 Developing economies must plan and propel the green transition at the upcoming United Nations COP30. And Africa is no exception.

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