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๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ญ ๐Œ๐„๐๐€ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐Œ๐š๐ ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐›๐ข.๐จ๐ซ๐  & ๐’๐œ๐จ๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐-๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ
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UK defence spending strategy will mostly benefit the US companies warns union leader ๐ŸŽ™๏ธโ€œItโ€™s not a strategic defence review in the interests of British people" ๐Ÿ“šRead: medium.com/@tibbsalasta... @cnduk.bsky.social โ€ช@declassifieduk.orgโ€ฌ

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โ“‡๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ซ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ ๐ŸŽ™๏ธI speak to @dubowy.bsky.social & @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social ๐Ÿ“šRead in our FREE newsletter: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐Ÿš€Martin Jay: Israelโ€™s strike against Iran could expose US to war "Netanyahu has blown US talks with Iran out of the water with latest strikes." READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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In this week's FREE pdf magazine: โš–๏ธHuman rights violations in Libya: An endless cycle of impunity ๐Ÿ› ๏ธStrikes erupt as Moroccoโ€™s government workers grow restive ๐Ÿš€Martin Jay: Israelโ€™s strike against Iran could expose US to war READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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In this week's FREE mag: ๐ŸŒ Revealed: The real details behind UK's new position on Western Sahara ๐Ÿ”ฏ "Zionism is a problem": The Jewish voices against Zionism @tafimhaka.bsky.socialโ€ฌ: Malema โ€œKill the Boerโ€ chant is a cry for change ๐‘๐„๐€๐ƒ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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โ€œ๐™๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆโ€: ๐€ ๐‰๐ž๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐™๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ "For decades, Zionism has been presented in much of the Western world as an inextricable component of Jewish identity" ๐Ÿ“–Read in our FREE mag: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐”๐Š ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐–๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐’๐š๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก โ€œ๐›๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆโ€ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ @ricfabiani.bsky.socialโ€ฌ talks to us in an exclusive interview on the UK's new deal with Morocco Read in our FREE magazine: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐Ÿ“– Subscribe to our FREE weekly PDF magazine, covering: - North Africa - Sahel - Middle East In just 10 pages! Subscribe: maghrebi.org/subscribe/ @martinrjay.bsky.social

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โš–๏ธ Nanjala Nyabola: Democracy in East Africa must be saved "So how did we get to this state of affairs? The simplest answer is that we allowed ourselves to conflate elections with democracy" Read in our FREE magazine: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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In this week's FREE magazine: ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธMorocco and Algeria's delicate standoff ๐ŸŒWhy has Morocco now reiterated support for a two-state solution? โš–๏ธNanjala Nyabola: Democracy in East Africa must be saved READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐ŸŒWhy has Morocco now reiterated support for a two-state solution? "The level of Moroccoโ€™s engagement directly corresponds with the pressure it feels from public anger over the issue" READ in Maghrebi Week: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ“ป๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Well, well, well.

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Download our FREE weekly pdf magazine! Inside: ๐ŸŒAfrica's new visionary leader ๐Ÿ“Press freedom at at time low ๐Ÿ“ขWhat violent riots in Tripoli mean for Libya READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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BREAKING | UK hits Israel with further sanctions and suspends trade talks over Gaza violence

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Just over a week after a ceasefire with India was struck, Pakistanโ€™s foreign minister is visiting his countryโ€™s largest arms supplier, China, with the performance of the weapons they supplied a matter of burning interest for analysts and governments alike.

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Download our FREE weekly pdf magazine for MENA news! Inside: ๐ŸŒAfrica's new visionary leader ๐Ÿ“Press freedom at decade-long low ๐Ÿ“ขWhat riots in Tripoli mean for Libya ๐‘๐„๐€๐ƒ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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Authoritarian governments always start with a wedge issue. They pick on something controversial, stir up fear, exasperation, and they then use that to prise open your rights, and to change the law. My words for OpenDemocracy: www.opendemocracy.net/en/conservat...

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Yama Wolasmal gjรธr en helt forbilledlig jobb ytterst fรฅ av oss, inkludert undertegnede, ville vรฆrt i stand til: Han overser alle forsรธk pรฅ provokasjon fra sitt intervjuobjekt, og utfรธrer ufortrรธdent sitt oppdrag: Ekte journalistikk. Dette intervjuet mรฅ du se. www.nrk.no/urix/israels...

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Israel has escalated its offensive in the war-torn enclave, pounding the strip with air strikes and issuing an evacuation order for one of its largest cities www.ft.com/content/8f1f...

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In this week's mag: ๐ŸŒWho is Africaโ€™s new visionary leader Ibrahim Traorรฉ? ๐Ÿ“ฐPress freedom crumbles in North Africa ๐Ÿ“Martin Jay: Ursula von der Leyen will prove the demise of the EU READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐Ÿ“ˆStay on-top of trends in North Africa and beyond ๐Ÿ‘‰Subscribe to our free weekly magazine: maghrebi.org/subscribe/ ๐Ÿ“–Read this week's: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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#BurkinaFaso - Despite the governmentโ€™s self-congratulatory rhetoric about its victories over jihadism, this spate of attacks has shown how urgently the military regime needs to adjust its military-led approach to defeating insurgents @sahel.crisisgroup.org www.crisisgroup.org/africa/sahel...

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๐ŸŒWhat can Africa do about Trump? Read Vera Songwe & Witney Schneidman's brilliant analysis: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐ˆ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค'๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ฉ๐๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐š๐ : โš–๏ธTunisia's democracy at breaking point ๐Ÿ‘ฎ Algeria jails historian over Amazigh comments ๐ŸŒ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ & ๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ: Africa's next steps with Trump ๐‘๐„๐€๐ƒ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐Ÿ“๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‹๐š๐ ๐จ๐ฌ: ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐‘๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐€๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ŸŒ๐˜ˆ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ขโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ป๐˜บ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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In this week's mag... ๐Ÿ“กTunisia: Protests over opposition mass trials ๐ŸŒSahel states realigning with Morocco at Algeria's expense โœ๏ธSara Almarzooqi: Sudan is facing an extremism comeback READ: maghrebi.org?sdm_process_... @martinrjay.bsky.social

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๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ฅ๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š-๐Œ๐š๐ฅ๐ข ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ? ๐˜๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช, ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ maghrebi.org/2025/04/22/w... @martinrjay.bsky.social #Algeria #Mali #GoldMining #Russia

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๐๐จ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐…๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ #๐•๐š๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ โ€œ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. ๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ต.โ€ medium.com/@tibbsalasta... #PopeFrancis #Catholicism

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๐‡๐š๐ฌ #๐€๐ฅ๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐–๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐’๐š๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š? ๐Ÿ“ My opinion piece for Maghrebi.org - maghrebi.org/2025/04/14/h... ๐˜ˆ๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜น ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข, ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜Œ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ @martinrjay.bsky.social #WesternSahara #Morocco

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