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Algeria: Exporting Stability

Posted: June 8th, 2016

Terrorism is spreading westward from the Middle East and East Africa to countries like Tunisia, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Cote d’Ivoire. In Libya, the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) infiltrated the north and established a stronghold in the city Sirte. The U.S. is actively engaged in the campaign against ISIS and has an interest in stopping terrorism from moving further west. Still, it needs stable regional allies to aid in counterterrorism efforts. One of those allies is Algeria.

Algeria is not foreign to instability and terrorism. The “Black Decade” (the period between 1991 and 1999 in which Algeria was caught in a brutal civil war) saw extreme fighting between the Algerian government and various Islamic rebel groups. Yet in 1999, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected and started an era of political and economic reform.

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