Peace and security

Mines as a Weapon of War in Post-Revolution Libya: Chronicles of a Plague.   The numerous conflicts that have torn apart post-revolution Libya have, those last years, been marked by persistent violence interrupted by short periods of calm. Several civil..

The Geopolitics of Sport in North Africa: “From the diplomacy of briefcases to that of Sneakers”     Since time immemorial, sports and politics have been intricately linked. One need only look at the Olympics in ancient Greece. Indeed, sports..

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

North Africa Talks reçoit aujourd’hui le chercheur spécialiste du dossier libyen Jalel Harchaoui, pour nous parler des derniers événements qui ont secoué Tripoli et les luttes pour la prise de pouvoir qui s’y déroulent, du jeu des puissances internationales et..

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

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.  

  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..

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..

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..

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,..

Mali’s military junta has booted out the French ambassador, Joël Meyer, for criticising its decision to postpone national elections indefinitely