This article was also published on the American website al-monitor.com:. Gilles Kepel is a political scientist, specialist in Islam and the Arab world, editorial writer for Al-Monitor and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Department at the École Normale Supérieure.
The shock waves of the Abraham Accords and the war in Ukraine are affecting relations between Algeria and Morocco, while testing the cohesion of the three European Union member states Italy, France and Spain in dealing with their North African counterparts.
First, Algeria is forced to review its alignment with Russia, the successor to the former Soviet Union, which provided it with almost all of its weaponry and trained the top leaders of its military-security apparatus that enforces the reality; power since independence. The fall of the Berlin Wall in Algeria in 1989 immediately translated into a regime crisis that led to a civil war mixed with jihad,…
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Source: Le Figaro
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