Geopoliticss

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

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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