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Now for the post-election purge
So, days after rumors surface that Bouteflika’s brother will create a new party, the Algerian press reports that the president is about to launch a purge of the army. After asking the Ministry of...
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More on the Moroccan local elections
More on the Moroccan local elections: this time a long and detailed piece by Dana Moss at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, saying the status quo continues. Sounds about right. Go read!
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Algeria reading: political parties, Ouyahia, AQIM
Here’s a mixed bag of Algeria stuff for you, which I have no intention to edit into a comprehensible post. 1. POLITICAL PARTIES El-Quds el-Arabi has a very interesting survey of internal troubles in...
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Scoundrel or Statesman? The case of Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
It was a stirring start. Before some two thousand supporters, many of them former ministers and high power business people, fmr. Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall began his address. Immediately, the power...
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Algeria, POLISARIO and the Mauritanian election
An interesting aspect of the Mauritanian 2008 coup was the way it immediately sank into the pattern of Moroccan-Algerian rivalry. The first government to welcome the coup was Morocco, which already had...
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“No poor people in Algeria”
Here’s a whopper: Algeria’s Religious Affairs Minister Bouabdellah Ghoulamallah has claimed on state radio that “there are no poor people in Algeria”. Referring to how some 1,5 m Algerians vacation in...
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Why Algeria’s Jihadist defectors don’t matter
Jarret Brachman and Jihadica have both been covering the “revisions” (i.e. Jihadi self criticisms) of the largely defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (PDF). This has been widely presented in the...
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50 top Algerians
Jeune Afrique has run an nice special on the 50 people who make Algeria what it is — politicians, policemen, generals, business people, cultural luminaries, and others. It includes major powerbrokers...
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Islamist boot-kissing in Libya
Interesting! Ali el-Sellabi, a prominent Libyan Islamist, has come out in favor of Seif el-Islam el-Qadhafis ascent to power. You’ll remember he was publicly anointed regime no. 2 recently, which...
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Insights into Algerian parliamentary etiquette
The passing of Algerian politician Bachir Boumaezza has prompted El Khabar to print some juicy stuff from his still unpublished memoirs, which he had asked to be kept secret until after his death. It...
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