2023-07-30 11:00:00
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LETTER FROM MAGHREB. At the second Russia-Africa summit, the Kremlin tried to rally Africa. He can count on Algeria as the capital of the new cold war.
By Benoît Delmas President Tebboune, here on June 15, 2023 with Vladimir Poutine, has increased his travels in recent weeks: Moscow, Beijing, Ankara, Doha… If his main customers from Algeria are France, Spain and Italy, major oil and gas seekers since the partial closure of the Russian tap, his regime is flourishing alongside Xi Jinping, Putin and Erdogan. © MIKHAIL METZEL / SPUTNIK / AFP Published on 07/30/2023 at 11:00 am
“It’s not our war”, say the North Africans. From Rabat to Tunis, we express our discontent without nuance, the price of vegetables, the cursed tomato, the meat that we can no longer buy, chicken at the price of beef, shortages. And this in the street as in places of power. The taxi driver will explain to you that Europeans are responsible for his stunted purchasing power when his minister blames Westerners for the poor social situation in his country. In the Maghreb and in Africa, inflation and trade deficits are considered to pay for the consequences of a conflict “among whites”.
A Russia-Africa summit that speaks volumes
That Moscow is the author of the energy and food chaos does not matter, people crowded around Vladimir Putin on Thursday and Friday. There…
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