Economy and social justice

  By Bassem Snaije[1] and Francis Ghiles[2]   On March 27th, the newswires were abuzz with yet another tragic event in the Mediterranean. A frail boat carrying migrants attempting to reach Italian shores sank off the coast of Tunisia near..

Ensuring agricultural resilience in the north African region:   FARMER SEEDS AS A SOLUTION TO MAJOR CRISES     Auteur: Mohamed Coulibaly Edition: Imen Louati, PhD Translation from French to English: Ahlem selmi   This study analyzes the legal framework..

Webinar: Ecological Farming as a solution to adapt to climate change   December 8, 2022 from 2 to 4 pm (GMT+1)   Intensive farming system that rely heavily on the chemical fertilizer and pesticide industry is called into question because..

The same questions arise every time issues related to phosphate, wealth, the mining basin, the 2008 mining basin protests, or disruptions in phosphate production: why does the mining basin tragedy persist? Why do all successive governments before and after January..

Lord of Pastures : Amghar n’Tuga       Idir, a nomadic pastoralist from the tribe Ilemchan (the Ait Atta tribal confederation) was appointed by his tribe as Amghar n’Tuga (Lord of Pastures). In this film he tells us about..

This new episode takes us to Egypt, the country is under the spotlights for organizing the COP 27 in a particularly tense period for human rights

https://soundcloud.com/north-africa-talks/cop27-a-political-gift-for-el-sisis-torture-regime This new episode takes us to Egypt, the country is under the spotlights for organizing the COP 27 in a particularly tense period for human rights

In November 2022, the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Egypt for the first time; in the following year, it will take place in the United Arab Emirates.   As it stands, in the coming years..

COP27: A Political Gift for El-Sisi’s Torture Regime   “Green” investments in Egypt do little for climate action, but legitimize the rule of a reactionary military dictatorship   Egypt’s President al-Sisi is exploiting COP27 to downplay his regime’s bloody human..

Africa Needs Economic Sovereignty An upcoming conference in Dakar seeks to promote policies and pathways to empower the continent   Perhaps no continent suffers more from the legacy of European colonialism than Africa. Following centuries of enslavement, violent dispossession, and..

Click here for the German version     The state seems like a body on life support, a series of tubes running in and out of it, foreign doctors occasionally administering steroidal loans or applying structural adjustment chemotherapies. We study the..

The liberalization of the Tunisian agricultural sector has been a key issue in the ALECA negotiations since the first formal round of negotiations in Tunis in 2015.The EU requests a far-reaching liberalization of tariffs and tariff quotas for agricultural products.Given..