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Can gas discoveries fuel Mauritania’s economic growth?
It has been a decade since Mauritania discovered its first natural gas field, Grande Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA), on the maritime
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Opinion
Can gas discoveries fuel Mauritania’s economic growth?
It has been a decade since Mauritania discovered its first natural gas field, Grande Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA), on the maritime
Opinion
Déjà vu in the Middle East
It is with a profound feeling of déjà vu with which many of us are looking at Israel’s war
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Why the Maghreb matters to the world’s oceans
North-West African states have a growing role to play in ocean governance—and global frameworks should reflect it. As diplomats
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The Middle East’s future has never looked more uncertain
In launching an unprovoked military attack on Iran, Israel not only once again finds itself in very clear breach of
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The heat is on … summer’s real impact across the Maghreb
Global warming, global heating, climate change, the greenhouse effect; call it what you will, global temperatures are expected to exceed
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Britain’s backing of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara creates a whole new playing field
This week British Foreign Minister David Lammy followed up with a statement in the House of Commons, where he again
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The impact of a UN cash crisis on Libya
It may loosely be described as the law of unintended consequences. For over three decades the former ruler of Libya,
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Morocco’s driving ambition
For years, Morocco was better known for its carpets than its cars. No longer. The North African kingdom has quietly
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How did relations between Algeria and France get so bad?
This week, one of the world's experts on French Algerian history, Benjamin Stora, described relations between the two
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Morocco’s ‘moral commitment’ to the Two-State Solution
The settled will of the international community, as expressed through innumerable United Nations resolutions, is for a ‘two state’ solution
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Why the UN still matters across the Maghreb
In our increasingly un-reported World, well, that part of the media circus that doesn’t involve celebrity and assorted trivia,
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Securing the kingdom: How Morocco’s DGSN became a model of modern policing
Since its establishment in 1956, Morocco’s General Directorate for National Security (DGSN) has been the institutional backbone of public