North Africa Round-up

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  • Protests have continued in Tunis, in the midst of political tensions between Prime Minister Mechichi and President Saïed and reports of a poisoning attempt on the President

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  • Meherzia Laabidi, current Assembly member for the Ennahdha Movement, and first Deputy Speaker of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly, passed away on 22 January. In addition to her role in Tunisian politics, she was also an active member and leader of international organisations including Religions for Peace and the Global Women of Faith Network.

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  • The Algerian press is reporting renewed tensions between Polisario and Morocco since the US’s unilateral move to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in December.

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  • In what has been described as a “Franco-French affair” but has obviously also received coverage in the French-language Algerian press, Benjamin Stora delivered his commissioned report on Les questions mémorielles portant sur la colonisation et la Guerre d’Algérie to President Macron. The report is available here

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RUDN Univeristy Conference AFNSIR 2021: Development Cooperation with Africa in the Post-Covid Era (Zoom-format, Deadline 15 February 2021)

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AFNSIR 2021 will focus on the topic of Development Cooperation with Africa in the Post-Covid Era.
In 2020, Africa, as the rest of the world, experienced a crisis associated with a pandemic, its consequences for health care, economy, education and political unity of the countries. To discuss the challenges of a new era for Africa, we would like to invite our friends and colleagues, the participants of the conference 2020, to become our experts this year.
In 2021, taking into account new realities, we are holding an online conference on the zoom platform with simultaneous translation. The conference will be held in two days:
Day 1. 25 February 2021
Panel session 1: Summits of great powers on cooperation with Africa
Round table: African views on post-COVID recovery & African Agency
Panel session 2: Healthcare cooperation (COVAX, WHO and regional iniatives in Africa)
Day 2. 26 February 2021
Panel session 3: Transformation of education cooperation within the Continent (new vectors of growth)
Round table: African digitalization & cyber-security
Panel session 4: Conflicts & Political Process despite COVID Pandemics
All important dates and schedule are available at the website: http://africa.rudn.ru/schedule
For registration please fill in the form: http://africa.rudn.ru/involve