Algeria wants to form a Maghreb alliance against Morocco

Algeria continues its shenanigans against Morocco and its plan to create a Maghreb without one of its main members whose importance of his presence is reflected in the homonymy. After encouraging meetings of heads of state from the region without inviting Morocco, Algerian leaders are trying to convince them to form an alliance against Rabat.

Algerian diplomacy has hit rock bottom since Abdelmadjid Tebboune came to power. Algeria’s foreign policy has never sunk so low and the country has never been so sidelined as it has been since 2019. Even when the country was on autopilot while former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika never recovered from a stroke, Algerian diplomacy was in better shape. from today.

The whims of President Tebboune and his assistants, the generals in power, to divide Morocco and become “superpower” the regional leadership, putting all the Maghreb countries at its feet, continued to surprise the international community.

Gifted with Machiavellianism more than serving the country’s interests, Algerian leaders have devised a strategy to marginalize Morocco from its natural environment by claiming that the Maghreb Union will be in a “coma”, even as it is Algeria that is preventing regional integration by funding a separatist organization.

At a press conference on Tuesday, March 26, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf revealed Algeria’s intentions without revealing the plan apparently initiated by Abdelmadjid Tebboune, but confirming the goal of forming an alliance against Morocco.

“The UMA is in a coma” tried to justify Ahmed Attaf, claiming that the institution “there is no activity, not even a general secretary with the prerogatives of a general secretary”.

According to him, Algeria would try it “fill in the blank”explaining it “The UMA exists, but it is in a coma, not all of its institutions have been dissolved, the conventions are no longer in force due to the circumstances, but they are there”and that the project “does not mean creating an alternative to what exists.”

Without explaining the reasons for the meetings initiated by Algeria, which bring together all the members of the Arab Maghreb Union without Morocco, the Algerian minister revealed that actually Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s project would be to have the leaders of the region “fill in the blank» left the kingdom.

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in all his meetings with Maghreb leaders or foreign ministers underlines that North Africa is the only region that does not have frameworks for discussion and does not have a common position regarding international issues, the Algerian press reported.

And as far as international issues are concerned, the Algerian president is really talking about the Sahara, the only issue that divides and poisons the relations of the Maghreb countries, because they do not want to join Morocco for fear of offending Algeria, or vice versa, they do not want to speak against Morocco as they would not assimilate with countries that support terrorism and separatism.

These Maghreb countries obviously know the gravity of such a decision and protect their cards by trying to play in the gray zone. Countries like Tunisia, which have long held neutrality ” positively » in the file, he had to admit steps against Moroccan interests after blank checks signed by Algerian soldiers.

Mauritania is also the subject of an Algerian campaign of seduction in order to later facilitate the calling of a movement against Morocco. This is how Abdelmadjid Tebboune is “tried to get them (Maghreb countries, editor’s note) to accept the idea of ​​filling this gap” especially in early March with meetings between Algerian officials and their counterparts from Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania.

Attaf confirmed Tebboune’s project, indicating that he was the Algerian president “suggested a formula”and that his mission as head of diplomacy, when he was sent to visit the countries of the Maghreb “as a special envoy of the president”he should have explained this file and this Algerian formula to the leaders of these countries.

Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed and President of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohamed Younes El-Menfi responded to Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s call on March 3. Meeting participants “he examined the situation in the Maghreb region and emphasized the need to unify and intensify efforts to solve economic and security challenges, serving the interests of the people of the three countries” it is stated in the press release of the Algerian presidency.

At the end of this meeting, they agreed that tripartite North African meetings, without Morocco, will be organized every three months, the first of which will be held in Tunisia after the month of Ramadan.

The meeting was marked by the refusal of the Mauritanian President Mohamed Cheikh Ould El Ghazouani, who nevertheless went to Algeria the day before for the work of the 7th summit of the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries.

Mauritania, by not responding to Algeria’s call to create a Maghreb without “Maghreb” (Morocco, editor’s note), has positioned itself as a country that does not want to take sides or maintain the rivalry between Rabat and Algeria, since Algeria has clearly shown its distrust in Morocco cutting off its diplomatic relations.

Nouakchott is already involved as the 4th party in the conflict over the Sahara and positions itself as “neutral”the country that shares borders with Morocco and Algeria does not want to incur the wrath of one or the other, although the Sahara issue as well as its genesis show that Algeria created the Polisario and is trying to separate the Sahara from Morocco.

But during a press conference by the Algerian foreign minister, he appeared confident when questioned about Mauritania’s non-participation and its reluctance to enter the Algerian game, replying that it had to “follow the news”.

Ahmed Attaf did not give a clear answer, but Algeria made persistent and hard efforts“seduce”Mauritania in recent weeks, especially with the inauguration of the road connecting Tindouf and Zouerat, has left no one in doubt about Algeria’s intentions.