North Africa
Libyans Want Unity, but They Do Not Want Unity to Absolve Failure and Corruption
Halfway Between Tripoli and Benghazi, Sirte Is Also the Gateway to Sebha, the Regional Capital of Libya’s South
Legal Theater Cannot Feed a Collapsing Nation
Algeria Criminalized Boycotting Its Own Elections, Then Spent the Entire Campaign Pleading with Citizens to Vote in Them Anyway
Algeria’s Military Establishment Is Not a Partner Seeking Regional Stability
The Regime Recycles and Escalates Criminal Charges to Ensure That Inconvenient Voices Remain Locked Away
Candidate Disqualifications and Military Oversight Reveal a Parliamentary Election Shaped Before Voters Arrive
This Is How Managed Democracies Work: Authority Is Always Located One Level Above Wherever You Happen to Be Standing.
The Collapse of the Malian State Is a Direct Security Liability for North Africa
Libya’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure, Already Chronically Vulnerable, Now Sits Squarely in the Crosshairs of Gray-Zone Operations
Beneath the Optics of Cooperation, Egypt Seeks Relief From Mounting Pressures
This Escalation Has Ignited a Regional Alarm That Reaches from Algiers to Cairo
Iran’s Proxy Strategy Has Expanded Beyond the Levant and Now Threatens North Africa’s Strategic Balance
Blocking Allied Operations While the War Is Live Hands Adversaries a Tactical Opening at Europe’s Most Sensitive Energy and Migration Chokepoint
Tebboune’s New Laws Tighten Political Control While Presenting Themselves as Modernization
While Morocco Is Pro-Western and a Signatory to the Abraham Accords, Algeria Is Aligned with Russia, China, and Iran
While Publicly Claiming Non-Alignment, Algiers Has Leaned Heavily on a Shared ‘Resistance’ Vocabulary with Tehran
The Nation Finds Itself Suspended Between the Haunting Legacy of Its past and an Ambitious, If Contentious, Military Future
While Saied’s Current Mandate Still Has Years to Run, the Architecture for Its Extension Is Already Being Built
This Summit Represents a Watershed Moment Where the Maghreb’s ‘African’ Identity Is Being Superseded by an Alignment with Western and Abrahamic Security Interests