Geopolitics

The desert city holding back a war

In Mauritania’s far southeast, a refugee camp of nearly 300,000 people has become both sanctuary and buffer zone between Mali’s collapse and Europe’s borders Reporting from the edge of the...

Black gold across the Mediterranean

An Italian report into the murky underworld of Libyan oil The histories of Italy and Libya have long been intertwined: from the time when Libya was a province of the Roman Empire, to Italian...

The Garage Owner and the Spies

A once-celebrated media personality and political fixer, Mehdi Ghezzar now finds himself sidelined as Franco-Algerian tensions have taken on a new, harder edge In an article for the French quarterly Revue...

Norm war

A French perspective on the performative power games of Donald Trump The beginnings of Trump’s second term as President of the United States have been eventful. A brutally disruptive tariff...

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