Algeria: Petroleum sector facing uncertainty as political crisis escalatesF

Thursday, March 21, 2019

By Arezki Daoud – 21 March 2019: Echoing the positions of many of the foreign companies operating in Algeria, peaking with Exxon Mobil halting talks with Sonatrach on the American company’s involvement in a gas project, oil analyst Julian Lee wrote in Bloomberg...

Opinion: Turbulent times in North Africa and SahelF

Friday, February 22, 2019

By Arezki Daoud: 22 February 2019 – North Africa remains confronted with so many sources of instability, while the Sahel has virtually collapsed. Egypt continuous on its downward spiral of government abuse. Authorities have been hanging people over the past two...

UN conflict resolution technique: more conferences, and another one on the Western SaharaF

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

By Arezki Daoud – 30 January 2019:  The UN does a lot of good things, including humanitarian support to people in distress. One area where the institution is ineffective is bringing feuding parties in key conflicts and get them to agree no matter what.  One of...

Algeria: A presidential election without one single candidateF

Friday, January 18, 2019

The North Africa Journal – By Arezki Daoud – 18 January 2019: This is the kind of stuff you only see in the Guinness Book of World Records. A country that has a presidential election in three months and yet, no single candidate came forward. Not that the...

North Africa & the Sahel: A tough start for the new yearF

Thursday, January 17, 2019

17 January 2019 – By Arezki Daoud – The hope for some stabilization this year in North Africa and the Sahel appears to have faded away with the events in the region that greeted 2019. As the populations confront winter, they also confront one or many...

From the EditorF

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Luxembourg Prime Minister is right: Arab and European leaders believe in “Father Christmas” by The North Africa Journal | Feb 25, 2019 Opinion by Arezki Daoud - 25 February 2019:  Leaders and representatives of some 40 Arab and European countries met in...

Libya: No hope for stability anytime soonF

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The North Africa Journal – February 21, 2018:  No one seems to know what to do with Libya these days. French President Emmanuel Macron at least had the courage to say that the military intervention in Libya under President Nicolas Sarkozy, was a “serious...

Libya: The unlikely return of peace with Haftar and Serraj in the driving seatF

Thursday, July 27, 2017

The North Africa Journal- July 27, 2017: By Arezki Daoud: Two Libyan leaders, UN-backed, Tripoli-based Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the self-promoted Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the man whose stronghold is in the east of the country, met in Paris this week under the...

China focuses on its military footprint in Africa, setting stage for new rivalry with WestF

Thursday, July 13, 2017

The North Africa Journal – July 13, 2017:  While the United States is scaling back its international positions amid a significant reduction in State Department’s budget that will affect international aid, another superpower, China, is working to substantially...

Outlook: Yet another cycle of uncertainty for the regionF

Monday, February 6, 2017

As the armed forces and security services manage to control, to a certain extent, the terror threat, the Greater North Africa region is facing unprecedented political tension, social stress and economic despair.  Data for all countries in the North Africa zone,...