{"id":2809,"date":"2021-02-11T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2021-02-11T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T16:27:00","slug":"north-africa-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"North Africa Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Protests have continued in Tunis, in the midst of political tensions between Prime Minister Mechichi and President Sa\u00efed and reports of a poisoning attempt on the President<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordantimes.com\/news\/region\/tunisia-rights-groups-say-1000-arrested-six-nights-riots\">jordantimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1111122\/politique\/tunisie-conflit-ouvert-entre-kais-saied-et-hichem-mechichi\/\">jeuneafrique<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lapresse.tn\/85834\/affaire-de-lenveloppe-suspecte-precisions-de-la-presidence-de-la-republique\/\">lapresse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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 <i>Religions for Peace<\/i>\u00a0and the\u00a0<i>Global Women of Faith Network<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leconomistemaghrebin.com\/2021\/01\/22\/deces-de-la-deputee-dennahdha-meherzia-laabidi\/\">leconomistemaghrebin<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and more information on her work <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lallab.org\/meherzia-labidi\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Algerian press is reporting renewed tensions between Polisario and Morocco since the US&#8217;s unilateral move to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elwatan.com\/edition\/international\/le-polisario-intensifie-ses-attaques-contre-les-forces-doccupation-marocaines-27-01-2021\">elwatan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In what has been described as a &#8220;Franco-French affair&#8221; but has obviously also received coverage in the French-language Algerian press, Benjamin Stora delivered his commissioned report on <i>Les questions m\u00e9morielles portant sur la colonisation et la Guerre d&#8217;Alg\u00e9rie<\/i> to President Macron. The report is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/admin\/upload\/default\/0001\/09\/0586b6b0ef1c2fc2540589c6d56a1ae63a65d97c.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/actu-et-enquetes\/france-algerie-histoire-benjamin-stora-rapport-repentance-colonisation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/actu-et-enquetes\/france-algerie-histoire-benjamin-stora-rapport-repentance-colonisation&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613133861366000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHnIFj3NuVRG-DDVRQ-BGH4LXViw\">middleeasteye<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexpressiondz.com\/nationale\/un-exercice-difficile-mais-necessaire-340049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.lexpressiondz.com\/nationale\/un-exercice-difficile-mais-necessaire-340049&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613133861366000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEPukhac7AxBogWMQHmTin0Mjiejg\">lexpressiondz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberte-algerie.com\/actualite\/le-chemin-reste-encore-long-352797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.liberte-algerie.com\/actualite\/le-chemin-reste-encore-long-352797&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613133861366000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEi-Mt3Psu2BL9Cx9X0jXBjWZeuTQ\">liberte-algerie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elwatan.com\/edition\/actualite\/le-rapport-stora-vise-dabord-a-regler-un-contentieux-franco-francais-27-01-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.elwatan.com\/edition\/actualite\/le-rapport-stora-vise-dabord-a-regler-un-contentieux-franco-francais-27-01-2021&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613133861366000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHj2K6gtcJiUZ2_mWXSjQCHbcLLnQ\">elwatan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests have continued in Tunis, in the midst of political tensions between Prime Minister Mechichi and President Sa\u00efed and reports of a poisoning attempt on the President Read more on jordantimes jeuneafrique lapresse Meherzia Laabidi, current Assembly member for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2,5],"tags":[27,370,221,252,958,356,562],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","category-resources","tag-algeria","tag-colonisation","tag-colonisation-francaise","tag-france","tag-guerre-dalgerie","tag-macron","tag-tunis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}