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Morocco: The mining sector, a major source of wealth for the monarchyF

Managem Group generates over half a billion euros of revenues a year, bringing massive wealth to the Moroccan monarchy.  Producing gold, cobalt, precious metals and other minerals inside and outside Morocco, the company is rich but not without its own controversies....

Algeria: Divisions in the Islamist movement over Algeria’s protestsF

The Algerian protest movement has brought into the fore the divisions pitting the various Islamist movements operating in and outside of the country. Different branches of political Islam interpret the calls for democracy and the rule of law by the Algerian people,...

Libya: Haftar troops unable to capture Tripoli, more violence aheadF

Al-Swani, Libya, June 3, 2019 - As meat sizzled on a barbeque in a Tripoli suburb, Libyan fighters defending the capital from a military offensive rested during "the calm before the storm" on the front lines. "We don't deprive ourselves of anything," said a fighter...

Sahel: How Mali is descending into chaosF

June 3, 2019 - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning of a "high risk" of atrocities in Mali in a report that calls for beefing up the UN peacekeeping presence in the strife-torn center of the country. In the report to the Security Council obtained by AFP,...

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