Articles by mahembarec

Foreign Relations Algeria has tightened security on its western border with Morocco, establishing 24 new monitoring points to combat smuggling of subsidised food products and fuel, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia announced at a press […]

Political Trends On April 27, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was airlifted to the Val de Grâce military hospital in Paris after suffering a « transient ischemia » – a temporary blockage of a blood vessel often called […]

  ALGERIA MONTHLY SITUATION REPORT Executive Summary Political Trends ·     Almost a month after he was airlifted to Paris for treatment following a “minor stroke”, there has been no sign of President Bouteflika and speculation […]

Security Political violence in February was markedly one-sided. The security forces kept up a steady rate of ambushes targeting small groups of jihadists in Kabylia and to a lesser extent other parts of the country[5], […]

Foreign Relations As France’s Operation Serval in northern Mali continues to unfold, fighting is increasingly concentrated in the Adrar des Ifoghas uplands north of Kidal to which AQMI and its allies had fallen back after […]

Political Trends Lambasted in the press for failing to address the nation during or immediately after the In Amenas siege in January, President Bouteflika finally addressed the subject in a message to mark Algeria’s annual […]

  ALGERIA MONTHLY SITUATION REPORT                      Executive Summary                         Political Trends ·     Taking advantage of the attention that has been focussed on the south of the […]

  Security Falling in the middle of the month and spreading out over several days, the In Amenas siege naturally dominated reporting of security news in January, possibly to the extent of crowding out reporting […]

  Foreign Relations If nothing else, the attack by the ‘Masked Men Brigade’ of AQMI’s Saharan branch[5] on the Tiguentourine gas facility at In Amenas on Jan. 16, planned as much as two months in […]

  Political Trends The surprise attack on the Sonatrach-BP-Statoil gas facility at In Amenas in the southern Algerian province of Illizi on January 16 is a unique and unprecedented event: not only does it represent […]