Placing Algeria-Morocco tension within a wider system of Middle Eastern conflict is important, but hides elements specific to North Africa’s decolonisation politics.
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Instability? Or the wrong kind of stability? Accompanied by a new report on North Africa in 2030, this year’s Rome Mediterranean Dialogue brings in speakers from foreign ministries and think tanks to discuss the region’s evolving challenge.
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Endangered as much as sustained by prospective elections, Libyan fragility is under intense scrutiny 10 years on from Qaddafi’s death.
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Multiplicity, uncertainty and competition continue to define Libya’s yet-to-be-concluded revolution 10 years after the fall of Tripoli.
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Local feud? Regional proxy? A diversion from internal problems? Where there is broad agreement that long-running rivalry, split relations with Israel, and domestic crises of legitimacy are deciding factors in severing ties between Morocco and Algeria, disagreement remains as to how these should be weighted.