08/11/2025

Peace with Morocco will expose Algeria?s fragile regime, not stabilize it

North Africa is approaching a geopolitical turning point unlike anything the region has witnessed in half a century. For decades, a cold, grinding enmity between Morocco and Algeria has imprisoned the Maghreb in a state of political paralysis and economic stagnation. The human cost has been immense: closed borders, stunted growth, and entire generations deprived of the benefits that regional integration could have delivered. Today, however, Washington?s strategic realignment and the growing international embrace of Morocco?s autonomy plan in Western Sahara are pushing the region toward a long-elusive peace. Yet beneath the hopeful rhetoric lies a fundamental truth: peace with Morocco would...
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