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A Fragmented Maghreb Facing a Security Challenge Changing Regional Order Keys A Fragmented Maghreb Facing a Security Challenge Khadija Mohsen-Finan lised on the political and institutional levels. Beji Changing Regional Order Political Scientist, University of Paris I Caid Essebsi, the head of the coalition that had just won the legislative elections of November 2014, was elected president of the Republic. Security Threat This security issue demonstrates that the fragile Tu- nisian transition is feeling the effects of the new re- On 18 March 2015, authorship for the Bardo Mu- gional order and the destabilisation of Libya. After seum attack in Tunis that caused the death of the fall of Colonel Gaddafi, the chaotic situation in 24 people and wounded 45 was claimed by the Is- Libya has affected the entire region. The porosity of lamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). This attack its borders and the weakness of certain states in the constitutes the first major terrorist operation to strike region are the source of significant arms circulation in the heart of the capital of Tunisia since the January that benefits the members of both Al-Qaeda in the 2011 revolution. Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Islamic State (IS), In this country, which continues to spark hope for real two rival organisations. 81 political change, security is the primary challenge to The security threat emerging from the Arab Spring the success of the political transition. Although ter- combines with older factors. Well before the Arab rorism is not new to Tunisia,1 terrorist violence has uprisings of 2011, Maghreb and Sahel countries gained a new impetus since the revolution. This vio- were already suffering from state weakness, percep- lence is partly due to regional disorganisation. The tible in their inability to control their territory and pro- assault on the American embassy by Salafists on tect their citizens. Hence, illegal activities developed, 14 September 2012 and the assassinations of two such as contraband (fuel, cigarettes, sugar, stolen leftist political figures (Chokri Belaïd and Mohamed automobiles) or criminal activities. These undertak- Brahmi) in 2013 demonstrate that the capital is just ings, which escape state control, are associated as vulnerable as the hinterland. These acts of vio- with a tradition of irredentism among certain popula- lence occurring in the very heart of the capital con- tions, in particular the Tuaregs, who have always had firm the fear of Tunisian government officials regard- difficult relations with states. ing the jihadi threat and the chaos ravaging Libya, as More recently, the presence of AQIM has constitut- well as the persistence of terrorist hotbeds in the ed a source of insecurity in the region.2 To fund its Mount Chambi area along the Algerian border. activities, AQIM has not hesitated to take Europeans 2015 In any case, in contrast to other attacks, the Bardo hostage, and states have negotiated their release by attack occurred when Tunisia seemed to have stabi- paying substantial ransoms. But the organisation 1 On 11 April 2002, a 25-year-old French Tunisian blew himself up in a tank truck he was driving that was packed with explosives. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place in front of the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba and caused 21 casualties and 30 wounded. On 3 January 2007, a shootout took place between the police and an armed group calling itself the Asad ibn al-Furat Army in the area of Soliman, southeast of Tunis. At first the press presented the attack as a case of banditry, but the inquiry revealed it was a Salafist group. The emergence of Mediterranean Yearbook violent Islamism marked a rupture with Tunisian political Islamism led by Ennahdha. 2 Emerging in September 2006 as a splinter group from the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), AQIM has pledged al- Med. legiance to al-Qaeda. IE also controls contraband networks. Thanks to this had been fighting for the independence of Western Keys type of funding, AQIM has managed to build up a Sahara since 1973. But in 1975, after the an- significant arsenal. The attack on the Algerian In nouncement of the Green March to ‘recover’ what Amenas gas facilities in January 2013 revealed the Rabat considered ‘its Saharan provinces amputated sophistication of the weapons the al-Qaeda-allied from Morocco,’ the Algerian government’s attitude organisation has on hand. Today, a large part of its changed radically. Indeed, the Moroccan initiative of arms cache comes from the dispersion of Libya’s the 350,000-strong march on Western Sahara al- weapon stock after the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi. lowed the old demons of ‘Greater Morocco’4 to re- Many of Gaddafi’s auxiliary troops returned to their surface, a concept that Algiers thought definitively countries of origin (Mali, Niger) equipped with arms buried after Rabat’s recognition of Mauritania and they then sold or exchanged. the Ifrane Agreement, which recognised Algeria’s The terrorist organisations striving to defy states and possession of Tindouf. As of 1975, the two states Changing Regional Order their institutions recruit throughout the region. The accused one another of wishing to destabilise the terrorist attack against the In Amenas gas complex, neighbouring regime. This attitude was put forth as which showed the limitations of Algerian security defensive by Algiers, indicating the protection of its strategy, also revealed the transnational nature of the revolution, whereas for Morocco, the aim was to re- group of assailants. Of the 37 terrorists, 11 were Tu- cover territories in the name of its ‘historic rights.’ nisian, allegedly recruited by AQIM during the Arab But beyond the official arguments, Algiers and Ra- Spring.3 bat were clearly engaged in a struggle for regional hegemony that was to be extended through differ- ent channels, in particular the Western Sahara con- The Weight of Algerian-Moroccan Disputes flict, which regularly experiences convulsions and would become the focal point of the recurrent ten- Maghreb countries are not organised to handle this sion between the two countries. 82 alarming security situation. Maghreb integration has These tensions are all the more difficult to dispel for never really worked, despite the establishment of the the Algerian political class since Rabat has still not Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) in 1989. The disputes officially recognised the inviolability of the border be- between Algiers and Rabat have constituted a siza- tween the two countries, the 1972 convention not ble obstacle to AMU operation. having been definitively ratified by the Moroccan Par- The conflict between the two major Maghreb coun- liament. In Rabat, on the other hand, the issue of the tries initially involved border disputes. Independent border is never dissociated from the issue of West- Algeria did in fact renege on the agreement made ern Sahara. by Farhat Abbas on the restitution of certain territo- These reasons do not suffice to explain Algeria’s ob- ries claimed by Morocco. Tensions continued be- stinacy regarding the Western Sahara issue. Algeri- tween the two countries until 1988, when Hassan II an political players continue to accuse their Moroc- admitted on a visit to Algiers that his country’s ter- can counterparts of coming to the aid of Algerian ritorial claims on Mauritania and certain parts of Al- Islamists during the 1990s with the aim of destabi- geria were utopian and constituted an obstacle to lising the regime.5 possible cooperation with the new Algerian military This rivalry between Algiers and Rabat was likewise government. A period of detente between the two perceptible in their handling of the Mali crisis. Al- 2015 countries followed, with Algiers at first refusing giers, which always wished to keep both France and to come to the aid of the Polisario Front, which Morocco out of the management of affairs regarding 3 Aomar BAGHZOUZ; “Le Maghreb et l’Europe face à la crise du Sahel : Coopération ou rivalités ?”, in Année du Maghreb IX, 2013, p. 179. 4 The concept of Greater Morocco was developed in the mid-1950s by Allal al-Fassi, the leader of the Istiqlal party. According to this concept developed by nationalists, Morocco should legitimately recover all territories that were “amputated” before and during the French protectorate. Mediterranean Yearbook Based on a map drawn by a party member, Moroccan nationalists believe their country, which should extend to Saint Louis in Senegal, should also include Mauritania, part of Mali, part of the Algerian Sahara and all of Western Sahara. 5 Med. Med. Akram BELKAÏD; “Pourquoi l’Algérie défend le statu quo au Sahara occidental,” in Orient XXI, 23 April 2015, http://orientxxi.info/magazine/pour- IE quoi-l-algerie-defend-le-statu-quo-au-sahara-occidental,0884 the Sahel area, put forth two factors it considered with terrorism, particularly displaying its desire to essential: its expertise in combating Islamist terror- protect itself from the threat from the south. Keys ism and its ability to conduct negotiations between Competition between the two major Maghreb states Tuaregs and the governments of Mali and Niger. is also exercised through the countries’ presence in Since 2001, it is as an experienced victim that Alge- Western Africa. Taking advantage of a lesser pres- ria has offered its services to participate in the inter- ence of Algeria in the African arena, the King of Mo- national struggle against Islamist terrorism estab- rocco visited a number of African countries in March lished by President Bush. Washington felt that this 2014, namely Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Gabon. country, which had fought against armed Islamism Moroccan presence and investments revolve around on its own soil during the civil war (1992-1998), two focal points: the economy and religion. could be but an invaluable ally. The parallel involvement of Algeria and Morocco in Algeria also used its power of negotiation and media- Malian affairs reveals the lack of collaboration be- Changing Regional Order tion between the Tuaregs and the governments of tween the two countries.
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