Musab Yılmaz is a Researcher in North African Studies. He graduated from Galatasaray University, with a degree in Political Science. He is currently an MA student at Ibn Haldun University, in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. He conducts research on Northern and Sub-Saharan African countries, especially in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.
Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez, in a letter he sent to Moroccan King Mohammed VI on March 18, stated that his country considered Rabat’s plan to resolve the Western Sahara problem as the most serious attempt. This attempt, which Morocco welcomed, led to comments that Spain’s stance changed on the Western Sahara issue. It was noteworthy that the letter came after the crisis between Morocco and Spain due to the Western
At the 35th African Union (AU) Summit held on February 5-6, Israel’s AU observer status was suspended. The AU will make its final decision on Israel’s observer membership at the summit to be held next year. A committee of representatives from Algeria, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Nigeria has reportedly been set up to advise on the matter at next year’s summit. The
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Algeria decided to re-appoint diplomat Ramtane Lamamra, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the recent government change, to succeed Sabri Boukadoum, a move that raised many questions about whether
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Tunisian President Kais Saied stated that “due to the extraordinary conditions the country is in,” the parliament froze all its powers and suspended the immunity of deputies, declaring that he dismissed Prime
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Morocco has denied allegations that the cell phones of French President Emmanuel Macron and some statesmen were tapped by the intelligence service, with the spyware program “Pegasus” developed by the Israeli company
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Since the presidential and parliamentary elections held in Tunisia on October 6, 2019, the ongoing political crisis between the Prime Minister of the third government, Hichem Mechichi, and President Kais Saied, since
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The uncertain results of the early parliamentary elections in Algeria present President Abdelmadjid Tebboune with different options for the government to be formed. Mohammed Charfi, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Administration
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In the general elections held on 12 June in Algeria, the National Liberation Front (FLN), one of the “pro-regime” parties of the period of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who had to leave
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Algeria is at the polls today, under the shadow of a new electoral system and a vibrant political atmosphere, two years after Abdelaziz Bouteflika ended his 20-year rule with the verbal intervention
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The separatist movement in Western Sahara, Polisario’s Secretary-General, Brahim Ghali, went to Spain from Algeria with a fake passport for COVID-19 treatment, causing the recently tense relations between the two countries to
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