Francis Ghiles

Francis Ghiles is a frequent contributor to The Arab Weekly. An associate senior fellow of CIDOB in Barcelona, he is the former Financial Times correspondent for North Africa.    

 

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A nurse checks a woman’s temperature before a covid-19 test at a military mobile hospital in the town of El-Hamma, in Tunisia’s southwestern Gabes governorate, on August 26. (AFP)
Tunisia’s experience coping with pandemic is worth West’s attention
August 28, 2020
A file picture shows Algerian soldiers standing guard at the Tiguentourine gas complex, in In Amenas, about 1,600 kilometres southeast of the capital. (AFP)
Algeria’s army strengthens hold on power, Hirak fading away
July 27, 2020
Algeria's President Abdelmajid Tebboune observes a moment of silence during a ceremony to lay to rest the remains of 24 resistance fighters, returned from Paris after more than a century and a half. (AFP)
Skulls repatriated to Algeria but history still to be rewritten
July 08, 2020
A 2013 file picture shows an Algerian soldier standing guard at the Tiguentourine gas complex, in In Amenas, about 1,600 kilometres southeast of the capital. (AFP)
Algeria out of the picture in the Libyan crisis and for a reason
June 25, 2020
A demonstrator reacts infront of graffiti on a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square during a Black Lives Matter protest in London. (AFP)
The West needs a healing focus not a censuring of the past
June 16, 2020
Tunisian woman works on the production of medical masks in a factory in the central city of Kairouan. (AFP)
Relocating EU manufacturing in Tunisia makes sense
June 08, 2020
A Chinese employee working on a battery production line at a factory in Huaibei in China’s Anhui province.(AFP)
Will Europe now remember it has potential partners closer than China?
April 11, 2020
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum (R) listens to his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian during a joint press conference in the capital Algiers, last January. (AFP)
Europe needs to take North Africa more seriously
April 04, 2020
A worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a globe-shaped public garden, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease in Algiers, March 23. (Reuters)
Virus pandemic highlights Algeria’s governance problem
March 28, 2020
A ferry carrying Algerians who left France prepares to dock in Algiers amid a coronavirus outbreak, March 19. (AFP)
Lack of leadership hinders the fight against the coronavirus across the Mediterranean
March 21, 2020
Migrants are on their way to a camp on the Turkish side of the Turkey-Greece border near the Pazarkule crossing gate in Edirne province on March 9. (AFP)
Erdogan tripping up in cross wires of foreign policy contradictions
March 14, 2020
European Commissioner, Margaritas Schinas (R) speaks with French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner during a meeting of EU Interior Ministers in Brussels, March 4. (AP)
Erdogan saves face in Moscow but remains trapped in his own policies
March 07, 2020
International connections. A 2009 file photo of late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (AP)
Looking back at Mubarak's legacy
February 27, 2020
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (3rd R) receives Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (2nd L) in Brussels, February 17. (DPA)
Why the Atlantic alliance is wary of Trump’s call for expanding military role to the Middle East
February 22, 2020
Algeria’s Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad addresses the National Assembly in the capital Algiers on February 11. (AFP)
In Algeria, post-Bouteflika aftershocks continue to resonate
February 15, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R), Turkish President President Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R), US President Donald Trump (2nd L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (3rd R) at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain, last December. (Reuters)
Can Turkey maintain its agressive foreign policy towards NATO and European Union?
February 08, 2020
The logo of the state energy company Sonatrach is pictured at the headquarters in Algiers, Algeria November 20, 2019. (Reuters)
Algeria’s Sonatrach scandal is a test case for new president
February 01, 2020
Reality check. Demonstrating against the massive canal project in Istanbul, earlier this month. (AP)
Istanbul Canal -- Erdogan's new 'grandiose' project that could turn into a nightmare
January 23, 2020
Uncharted territory. US President Donald Trump speaks during the NATO summit in Watford, England, last December. (AP)
Trump’s NATOME initiative remains a blur
January 18, 2020
In this file photo taken on February 22, 2017, US troops walk as a US C-47 Chinook helicopter flies over the village of Oreij, south of Mosul. (AFP)
Europe is offstage in the Middle East, US unilateralism triumphs
January 11, 2020