Interview
October 2022

Jihadism in Sahel and spillover risks towards north Africa

North Africa Talks welcomes Alex Thruston, an expert on Jihadism in the North Africa-Sahel region, to talk about the security situation in the region and emerging trends and risks.  

Research
August 2022

Tunisia: what is the energy transition about?

The energy transition, namely, the structural change of the current energy system, from a system based on the use of non-renewable energy resources, towards an energy system using mainly renewable resources, represents a real national and international issue. Most Maghreb..

Article
August 2022

The war in Ukraine divides Africa

  After two months of inconclusive attempts, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelynsky succeeded on June 20 in addressing African representatives at a closed-door meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa.[1] Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, Kiev has never shown any..

Article
June 2022

Diplomats, spies and arms dealers: Turkey’s Great Game in North Africa

Tika, Müsiad, Tüsiad, Sadat, all these bizarre acronyms that are actually the hidden face of Turkey’s global strategy in Africa and North Africa especially, which has experienced a significant change in Turkey’s commitment between 2009 and 2022. It must be..

Research
June 2022

Democracy or Economy? What needs to be changed to break the deadlock in Tunisia

Ten years after the Arab world’s first country rose up against injustice, the failure of the democratic process has placed the country at a dangerous crossroads

Article
May 2022

Global Tax Agreement – Perspectives from Tunisia

On 1 July 2021, over 130 countries agreed on a new framework to reform the rules of the international tax system

Research
May 2022

Chronicles of a Death Foretold: Democracy and Dedevelopment in Tunisia

– Exogenous shocks of different types cost the Tunisian economy billions in foregone growth and deprived it of critical foreign currency receipts. Pushing the current account into deeper deficits, exogenous shocks made the country’s leadership increasingly beholden to foreign creditors…

Research
May 2022

Black Box Egypt: Egypt’s Opaque Detention and Deportation Practice against Refugees

  Click here for the German version   In blatant violation of international refugee and human rights conventions, Egyptian authorities continue their crackdown against refugees and people on the move. While deportations of Eritrean nationals have apparently been expanded significantly..

Article
May 2022

The Tragedy That Paved the Way for Algerian Independence

On 8 May 1945, French massacres in northeastern Algeria radicalized an entire generation

Article
April 2022

The Legacy of the Algerian Civil War: Forced Disappearances and the Cost of Amnesty

Algeria’s civil war ended two decades ago, but the scars are still everywhere to be seen

Article
March 2022

There is war in Europe – Africa is looking for its position

On 2 March 2022, during a United Nations General Assembly vote, the large majority of UN member states condemned Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine. Only Belarus, North Korea and Syria, along with one African country, Eritrea, voted with Russia..

Article
March 2022

China’s Discreet Game in North Africa – Private Military Companies

Introduction A closed country for many years, China experienced the explosion of its economy and the invasion of distant markets at the same time as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the establishment of a new world order, September 11,..