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US Arrests Malians in Terror Drugs “Link” 21 Dec 2009 | 11:19 pm
The Saharan Al Qaeda – Cocaine has finally hit the North American domestic news with the much trumpeted arrest by United States agents of three Malians who they allege “the direct link between dangero...
Aminatou update 18 Dec 2009 | 10:47 am
[UPDATE: yeah. Haidar back in El Aaiun & passed customs w/o passport, on Spanish papers] Short update on the Aminatou Haidar stalemate, which may be about to finally resolve itself one way or the oth...
The Algerian Jews 15 Dec 2009 | 01:14 pm
Houwari at Algerian Review (great new blog!) has an interesting post up about the Algerian Jewish community. Below are some of my own reflections on the matter. The history of the Algerian Jews is as...
Niger’s 6th Republic stumbles on, looking for the door 9 Dec 2009 | 10:46 pm
"Baba Tandja" looms over the MNSD-Nassara leadership. No end is yet in sight for the Nigerien political crisis, begun when President Tandja Mamadou, facing the end of his term-limited mandate on 22 D...
Morocco vs. Aminatou 8 Dec 2009 | 02:03 pm
A hunger strike in Lanzarote is turning into a serious crisis in and between Spain and Morocco. Center stage is occupied by Western Saharan human rights leader and pro-independence activist Aminatou H...
Algeria eating itself 8 Dec 2009 | 06:14 am
At `Aqoul, The Lounsbury has a great post up on an expected takeover of Djezzy, a huge cell phone operator owned by Orascom (an Egyptian firm) which led the telecom revolution in Algeria. A French com...
The Algerian press & mass-market reach 1 Dec 2009 | 01:30 pm
I don’t have time to get into any detail here, or to find comparable up-to-date figures, but I’d just like to throw you a thought that has been with me for a while, which I hope someone more competent...
Mauritanian kidnappings 1 Dec 2009 | 10:27 am
Three Spaniards snatched from an aid convoy, in an unpleasant first for Mauritania. Details remain scarce, but you’ll find an informative post and a useful discussion at the Sahel Blog.
Swiss minaret ban 30 Nov 2009 | 01:57 pm
Not Maghreb related per se, but one can’t just let this pass without comment: Frankfurt – In what many see as a major setback to Europe’s effort to integrate its booming Muslim population – and a pot...
“Letter from a Sahrawi friend” 23 Nov 2009 | 03:46 am
Quick translation of an interesting editorial in Morocco’s outspoken weekly Le Journal hebdomadaire, in the form of a fictive letter from a “Sahrawi friend” describing how his cost/benefit analysis of...
