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 Conflicto militar en Sudán

 Conflicto militar en Sudán

Entrevista a Abdelwahab El- Affendi, académico sudanés y exdiplomático del país africano, sobre el grave conflicto militar que estalló el 15 de abril de 2023 y sigue activo.

 20 July 2023
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Syria and the Arab League: A Reconciliation Foretold

On 7 May 2023, a summit of foreign ministers in Cairo approved Syria’s readmission to the Arab League. This despite the fact that the Syrian regime has committed multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity.

 4 September 2023

Algeria: Hiding Continuity and Immobilism behind the Mask of the “New Algeria”

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has established a narrative about a "new Algeria". Yet, it barely conceals the challenges the country faces to renew its political, economic and even diplomatic plans.

 4 September 2023

The Union for the Mediterranean in 2023: Stocktaking and Food for Impact

The UfM has not only been consolidated as an institution with no regional alternative, but, more importantly, it has upheld any flair of collateral multilateralism that remains in the Mediterranean region.

 4 September 2023

China in North Africa. From Revolutionary Politics to the New Silk Road

Beijing has been engaged in a comprehensive economic and diplomatic offensive that is challenging European dominance in North Africa. China’s presence in North Africa is driven by its desire to expand its global market access while securing key nat...

 4 September 2023

Towards a More GRASSROOT EU Foreign Policy in the MENA Region? A Glossary

The EU’s foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa region seeks to uncover any development that would be tantamount to a more GRASSROOT EU’s foreign policy in that region.

 4 September 2023

Conditionality, Economic Restructuring and Intensified Repression: A Global Approach

More than one decade since a wave of popular uprisings swept North African and Middle Eastern countries, the social and economic concerns motivating the uprisings are yet to be addressed meaningfully by their respective governments, irrespective of h...

 4 September 2023

The Failure of European Policy on Africa and Migratory Movements

The EU has struggled to decide how its borders should treat African mobility since 1995, with the introduction of free movement of persons and goods and the removal of internal borders within the Union. This dilemma and other factors, including a lac...

 4 September 2023

Digitalization for the Green Transition in the Mediterranean

the European Union has created a dual green and digital transition agenda that aims to integrate its hitherto independent policy sectors. The fact that this new strategy has a geopolitical component and is both inward and forward looking is notable....

 4 September 2023

Escaping the MENA Debt Crisis

Much has been written about the weaknesses of the MENA economies: their low level of innovation and labour productivity, the lack of dynamism and informality of their private sector, and the decaying capacity of their states and decline in the qualit...

 4 September 2023

Chinese Military Influence in the Mediterranean

While in the seas and oceans adjacent to China hard power is increasingly visible, and this after years of soft power measures, in the Mediterranean we are still in the soft power phase in terms of Beijing’s projection.

 4 September 2023

Can Mediterranean Value Chains Offer a Path of Development to the South?

A prosperous North adjacent to a much poorer South, often with colonial or post-colonial linkages shaping the relationship between the two parts. Increasingly, the North has been moving towards stronger political integration, further expanding the po...

 4 September 2023

Prospects of Post-conflict Reconstruction in Libya

Since the collapse of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has been floundering through a transition that does not seem to have an end. Several years of conflict have had a dramatic impact on Libya’s economy and shattered the country’s in...

 4 September 2023