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Status quo blocks Western Sahara solution
On 11-12 August 2009, Moroccan delgations and representatives from the Polisario Front, a rebel movement working for the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco, met...
05-Nov-2009
Arab and Islamic investment in Africa
The past year has been a difficult one for Africa, not only in terms of the end of the global commodities boom that underpinned so...
20-Aug-2009
Islamists and the succession in Egypt
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 28-year reign has been expected to end imminently for some time. The 81-year-old's rule has reached its final stages and the...
20-Aug-2009
Libya lightens up on Islamic alternatives
Dozens of boys and young men mill around the cavernous hall of the Muslim University madrassah each day in Zliten, a Sufi shrine town in...
28-Jul-2009
Angola government cracks down on Islam
Government concern over the expansion of Islam in Angolan society was reported on 31 March 2009 by the Angola National News Agency ANGOP. The report...
25-Jun-2009
Al-Qaeda's African mode
The Chadian government says that its forces, assisted by a US Navy (USN) PC-3 Orion surveillance aircraft, killed 42 Islamic fighters in a running battle...
30-Mar-2004
West Africa: US set to expand Pan-Sahel success
Since the start of the global war on terrorism nearly three years ago, US national security priorities have changed dramatically. US forces have been scattered...
27-Aug-2004
AFRICA - USA deploys further forces in Africa
THE WAR on terrorism has seen the US military in areas far removed from its usual areas of activity. Most notably, the Bush administration is...
02-Aug-2004
AFRICA - Sudan peace in the balance
TORN apart by a long-running civil war, Sudan has long been a place of murky, often impenetrable intrigue. The leading protagonists show a dizzying propensity...
27-Jun-2004
Sudan peace hangs in the balance
Torn apart by Africa’s long-running civil war, Sudan has long been a place of murky, often impenetrable intrigue and a conflict whose leading protagonists show...
30-Apr-2004
AFRICA - Militants target oil-rich Nigeria
GROWING sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians, a conflict that shows all the signs of erupting into an all-out religious war, is ravaging Nigeria. ...
28-Jun-2004
Khartoum confronts the United Nations
A Security Council resolution has directed the Sudan government to assure the safety of the black African civilian population of the region by the end...
23-Aug-2004
AFRICA - Africa's teetering giant
NIGERIA, the world's seventh largest oil producer and the fifth-ranking source of US oil imports, is grappling with violent unrest in its southern oil region...
26-Nov-2004
AFRICA - Moroccan terrorist links
The image of Morocco as a moderate Islamic state and emerging democracy has been severely tarnished by the May 2003 bombings in Casablanca and the...
23-Dec-2004
Madrid bombings: Europe's future?
While the Spanish government initially blamed the separatist Basque Fatherland and Liberty (Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna - ETA) for the carnage, Spanish authorities have reluctantly concluded...
30-Mar-2004
Al-Qaeda?s shadow over East Africa
Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network remains a significant threat in many parts of Africa. Several Western intelligence agencies have conceded that there is a growing...
30-Jan-2004
AFRICA - Optimism over Khartoum sanctions
SENIOR SOURCES in the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs have expressed confidence that sanctions against Khartoum will soon be lifted - possibly this year. As...
25-Jul-2003
AFRICA - Libya: end of a revolution
MAJOR, nay, epoch-making changes are afoot in Libya, if the latest address by Colonel Moammar Ghadaffi is anything to go by. From the tone of...
30-Sep-2002
AFRICA - Religious war brewing in Ivory Coast
HOSTILITIES in the civil war in the Ivory Coast have alarmed observers in London and Washington because of the depth of hostile religious sentiment that...
20-Dec-2002
AFRICA - Islamist reverse in Morocco
THE SHADOW of Al-Qaeda looms over Morocco, but not in the way Osama bin Laden would have intended. The climate of revulsion at the attacks...
23-Dec-2003
Somali warlords bury the hatchet
Somalia’s feuding warlords have signed an agreement to form a new government based along clan lines, the first such accord to embrace all the armed...
26-Feb-2004
AFRICA - Algeria's top brass losing their shine
HALFWAY through his presidential term, President 'Abd al-'Aziz Bouteflika excites extremes of opinion. For some, his Concorde Civile policy, whereby an amnesty was declared in...
29-Aug-2002
Egypt's bid for the UN
The Arab League of Nations has made it clear that it supports Cairo's bid, hoping that this will help raise Arab issues and concerns globally...
20-Apr-2005
Repackaged Libya's road to reform
On 1 September, thousands of Libyans flocked to central Tripoli to attend choreographed 36th anniversary celebrations of Colonel Muammar Ghadaffi's seizure of power. Coming ...
30-Sep-2005
Another coup in Mauritania
The pre-dawn takeover of Mauritania on 3 August by a military junta, while President Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmad Taya was away in Saudi Arabia attending ...
30-Aug-2005
Western Sahara: from impasse to hunger and war?
When, at the end of April, the United Nations Security Council renewed its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara for a further six months, the ...
24-May-2005
Algerian amnesty in the balance
As preparations for a general amnesty get underway in Algeria, there are renewed expectations that the last remnants of terrorism will finally be defeated ...
29-Apr-2005
Stirrings of Islamic radicalism in Libya
While the struggles of Libya's North African neighbours against homegrown Islamist extremism are well documented, there has been scarce reporting of the re-awakening of ...
26-Jul-2005
Egypt's presidential elections - minus the Brotherhood
The 7 September presidential elections in Egypt displayed a belated spurt of energy in what was termed by kinder critics a 'rehearsal' for democracy. But...
27-Sep-2005
Does tomorrow belong to the Brotherhood?
The announcement on 16 November that the Muslim Brotherhood had won 34 seats in the first round of national assembly elections in Egypt, following a...
02-Dec-2005
AFRICA - Libyan-Saudi relations in turmoil
While the last year has been momentous in terms of Libyan-US relations, the same cannot be said for relations between Libya and the Kingdom of...
28-Jan-2005
Mauritania teeters on the brink of civil war
Whether religious extremists were involved in the coup or not, the President's response in jailing and sentencing alleged Islamist conspirators has exacerbated the situation. ...
23-Mar-2005
Libya coming in from the cold
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Ghadaffi says he is a disappointed man. He feels that his administration has not been adequately rewarded for dismantling a clandestine...
23-Feb-2005
Egypt faces mounting pressure to reform
With elections to the presidency only a few months away, the political temperature in Egypt is intensifying. The country's liberals sense the opportunity to ...
23-Feb-2005
Algeria's GIA: down and out
On 3 January, Noureddine Zerhouni, the Algerian Minister of Interior, announced that the feared Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armée - GIA), which had terrorised...
28-Jan-2005
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