The emergence of new worthy competitive actors has opened space for North African countries to relinquish Paris and leverage new partners.
While France’s silence on its colonial role in Algeria may work domestically, the future of European and North African relations is closely impacted by Paris’s silence.
The National Rally of Independents won 102 of parliament's 395 seats in the September 8 polls, sweeping away the Justice and Development Party which had headed the governing coalition for a decade taking just 13 seats.
President Macron finds it difficult to grasp why Algerians are still anti-French when France is yet to apologise to them for killing and abusing their forefathers during the French colonialism.
Although hundreds of migrants have tried to cross the fence before now, "we haven't seen a number like 700 before," Madrid says.
Polisario movement hails "great victory" after EU's top court canceled two trade deals with Morocco, related to agricultural products and fish from the disputed Western Sahara territory.
The Biden administration has not only continued Trump's policy in the Middle East, but is trying to expand it.
Data shows trading volumes between the UAE and Israel jumped from $51 million in the first seven months of 2020 to $614 million over the same period in 2021.
The RNI won 102 of parliament's 395 seats, thrashing the PJD, which had headed the governing coalition for a decade but took just 13 seats.
The autocratic regimes and Islamist parties of the Arab world can take this time to learn from and fix their mistakes, or expect another uprising.
Justice and Development Party, a strong coalition partner in the previous two governments collapse from 125 seats to just 12 after a count of 96 percent of all parliamentary seats.
Algiers has long been at odds with Rabat on issues such as Western Sahara.
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