North African Dispatches
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:20 - 3 Comments
North African Dispatches “Ben Ali, c’est fini!”
This week's round-up from North Africa describes how the Tunisian population’s unrelenting pressure throughout the country which saw the end to the Ben Ali system. Mohamed Bouazizi’s passing away, alongside the hundreds of other dead in the repression, Kateb Salim argues, will not have been in vain.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:51 - 10 Comments
North African Dispatches Riots rock North Africa
This week, Kateb Salim looks at the conflict across the streets of North Africa in his regular news round-up, arguing that recent developments reveal more complex motivations behind the “food riots”.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:01 - 3 Comments
North African Dispatches Tunisia’s female revolution
In this week's North African Dispatches, Kateb Salim takes a look at women's rights in Tunisia. Despite being ruled by one of the most repressive regimes in the region, the country boasts the best provision for women's rights in the Arab world. This however is now under threat.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, November 17, 2010 0:00 - 5 Comments
North African Dispatches Camping for freedom
A few weeks ago, hundreds of men, women and children, all inhabitants of the Western Saharan capital, Layoune, walked out of the city and established a camp in the desert. Their act of defiance against Moroccan occupation culminated, a few days ago, in savage repression and violence. Kateb Salim reports.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:16 - 6 Comments
North African Dispatches The House of Gaddafi: Keeping it in the family
In 1969, Muammar Gaddafi led a successful coup against the Libyan monarchy. Forty years on, he's still at the helm, ever more eccentric but seemingly unmovable. In this week's column, Kateb Salim looks at the increasingly persistent question of Libya after Gaddafi.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, November 3, 2010 0:00 - 5 Comments
North African Dispatches The “War on Terror”’s new frontier?
In this week's 'North African Dispatches' Kateb Salim looks at the emergence, and remarkably-swift growth, of 'Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb' (AQIM), highlighting the context surrounding the phenomenon, including US attempts to extend its 'war on terror' to the region. The months to come, he argues, might herald some crucial developments.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 0:00 - 6 Comments
North African Dispatches Africa’s Forgotten Colony
In a new column, 'North African Dispatches', Kateb Salim casts a light on the case of Western Sahara, Africa's last, forgotten colony. He traces the history of the region from Spanish colonialism to Moroccan occupation, and charts the tremendous obstacles in the path to freedom that the Saharawi people have faced over the past decades. Unless a just peace is found soon, Salim argues, the repercussions are bound to be disastrous for the region.
