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Pierre Vermeren: "The Maghreb, forgotten victim of the Covid"

2021-01-17T19:41:01.917Z


TRIBUNE - The virus causes fewer deaths in the Maghreb than in other regions of the world, but the economic and social consequences are very serious. And the consequences for politics are far-reaching, explains the historian *.


In the Maghreb, the year 2021 promises to be no less difficult than in the West, after a catastrophic year 2020.

In this poor region so linked to the European Union, the Covid-19 crisis has shattered hopes for vital economic growth.

The social unrest that hit southern and eastern Tunisia at the end of 2020, after the Algerian Hirak of 2019, and the Moroccan Rif revolt in 2017, recalled the endemic distress of rural and peripheral regions of the Maghreb.

This time, the crisis is general.

For ten years since the start of its revolution, on January 14, 2021, Tunisia was confined without discussion for four days.

As feared, riots nevertheless took place in several working-class neighborhoods of the country this Saturday - especially in Tunis -, at the initiative of young men at their wit's end.

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Five North African countries are members of the Grand Maghreb (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia).

Their 100 million inhabitants officially produced 320 billion euros per year.

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Source: lefigaro

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