Algeria
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Politics of Apology: Hollande & Algeria
Camille Pecastaing, World Affairs
Rise of North Africa's Jihadists Rattles Algeria
Vivienne Walt, Time
Islam's Path to Africa
Michael Widlanski, Jerusalem Post
A Decade of American Missteps in Africa
Craig Whitlock, Washington Post
North Africa Still Better Off Without Gaddafi
Colin Freeman, Telegraph
When newly elected French President François Hollande squarely denounced the brutality and injustice of the whole era of French colonialism before the Algerian Parliament on...(full article)
One wet, chilly February morning, Ali Zaoui climbed into his car in Algeria’s capital, drove 300 miles south into the desert and knocked on the door of a three-bedroom house in...(full article)
The more radical Islamic forces are on the march. Many of the victims of jihad are now in Africa, but they will probably not be the last....(full article)
The U.S. government has invested heavily in counterterrorism programs in the region, spending more than $1 billion since 2005 to train security forces, secure borders, promote demo...(full article)
Make no mistake about it -- the last thing that the poverty-stricken nations of sub-Saharan Africa ever needed was a violent, oil-rich, deluded nutjob like Gaddafi interfering in t...(full article)
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