Bottom Line Up FrontIraq has been convulsed by growing protests this week over corruption, widespread unemployment, and the government’s inability to [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontAgainst all odds, the popular revolts in Sudan and Algeria both succeeded in forcing the removal of their long-time autocratic [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontAgainst all odds, the popular revolts in Sudan and Algeria both succeeded in forcing the removal of their long-time autocratic [...]
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The anti-regime convulsions currently underway in Algeria and Sudan are the latest version of an “Arab Spring” that erupted in 2011 and that Arab [...]
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The anti-regime convulsions currently underway in Algeria and Sudan are the latest version of an “Arab Spring” that erupted in 2011 and that Arab [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontOn April 16, Egypt’s parliament passed amendments to the Constitution that provide President al-Sisi with a path forward to [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontOn April 16, Egypt’s parliament passed amendments to the Constitution that provide President al-Sisi with a path forward to [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontOn 2 April 2019, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his immediate resignation, ending his nearly 20-year rule.For [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontA growing number of countries are taking steps to limit internet access for their citizens to suppress unrest and anti-government [...]
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That Libya is a mess is beyond doubt, but who is actually trying to resolve the conflict is a harder question to answer.U.S. President Donald Trump [...]
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) emergence ten years ago this month was a Hail Mary. In 2004, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had [...]
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With the Islamic State (ISIS) facing imminent defeat in its Libyan stronghold of Sirte, questions have arisen over where the group might seek refuge [...]
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Fighting jihadi groups has been compared more than once to whack-a-mole. You thump a group here and it pops up there. You thump it again and it pops [...]
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On September 21, 2014, a group of Algerian jihadists, named Jund El Khilafa (The soldiers of the Caliphate) kidnapped Hervé Gourdel, a 55-year-old [...]
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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 [...]
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Since 2014, Algeria has been facing a major economic threat to its stability, as the 98 percent of its export revenue coming from hydrocarbons has [...]
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With the recent decline in oil prices, many predicted that Algeria would come under a real threat of instability. Indeed, if one were to believe the [...]
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Militants launched rocket-propelled grenades at a joint Statoil/BP gas plant in Algeria, but failed to harm the facility or its personnel. Reuters [...]
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Four years after the Arab Spring, the security environment across North Africa remains dire. Here is an overview of developments in five key [...]
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