Why Elections No Longer Guarantee Sovereignty By Samira El-Khalil There was a time when election day represented the culmination of politics. Polling stations opened before …
Samira El-Khalil
Samira El-Khalil
Samira El-Khalil, North Africa correspondent at Phoenix24. Expert in political violence, disinformation, and post-colonial governance in the Sahel and Maghreb
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Bamako | July 2026 The Sahel did not expel empire so much as alter the language through which dependence is negotiated. Mali, Burkina Faso and …
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When public trust fragments, authority no longer needs to persuade everyone. It only needs to dominate the uncertainty. Tunis, June 2026 North Africa is not …
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When institutions lose credibility, rumors stop being noise and start becoming power. Tunis, Tunisia | June 2026 There is a moment in the life of …
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Empires leave echoes long after they leave flags. Tunis, May 2026. North Africa is often described through the language of instability, migration and security crises, …
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Power no longer arrives only by convoy. Tunis, May 2026. The Sahel has often been described as a corridor, as if geography were merely a passage …
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The empire now speaks through proxies. Bamako, April 2026. The Sahel is not collapsing in silence. It is being rewritten by men who speak of …
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The border now lives inside fragile states. Tunis, April 2026. Europe no longer needs to move its border south with a flag or a soldier. It …
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In fragile states, memory rarely stays in the past. Tunis, April 2026. From Tripoli to Bamako, power often appears in familiar forms: uniforms, decrees, armed …
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Europe keeps calling it migration. North Africa knows it is memory. Tunis, April 2026 The Mediterranean is still being narrated in Brussels as a border …