“No independent African country today has the opportunity to pursue an independent path of economic development on its own,” Many of us who tried to do so were almost destroyed or had to return to the fold of the colonial powers Previously, this position will not change unless we have a unified policy that works at the continental level.”
Kwame Nkrumah, 1963
About
The Tamanrasset Initiative for Interregional Cooperation is a research work based on analysis, forecasting, and presenting alternatives to address the multiple, intertwined, and complex issues in a strategic region, whose peoples, unfortunately, did not gain many rights and did not enjoy even a little stability.
The initiative aims to form a network of actors (civil society, elite, businessmen) from the people of the interregional region and unify their efforts to support the regional policies of their countries for a promising future for the Sahara region.
According to Nkrumah, the situation will not change unless we have a unified policy for which all living forces in societies and systems unite.
Why Tamanrasset
Tamanrasset is a civilizational center extending throughout history, an area where roads and caravans converge, a spring of water that waters the Sahara Desert, the metropolis of Mother Tinhinan and the majestic mountains of Al-Ahghar, a zone of resistance and defense of land and identity, the homeland of the blue man who is proud of his freedom and the defender of his Algerianism.
Tamanrasset is the heart of the Sahara Desert and its center, which geographically mediates its capitals between Tripoli, Dakar, Conakry, Tunisia, Kinshasa and Algeria, N’Djamena and Nouakchott, and where Africans from all directions meet.
Tamanrasset, the capital of the Sahara Desert, with its projects that will meet all the needs of societies and countries, revive the salt and gold roads, and spread peace and stability in the desert oases and savannah forests.
Tamanrasset is the strategic depth of Algeria in the heart of the Sahara Desert, and a symbol of Algeria’s African identity, so that Tamanrasset lives as a green, prosperous oasis for Africa.
Founder of the initiative
Professor Mehdi Fatak, Professor at the Department of Political Science at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou.
Initiative philosophy
Proposing new geopolitical concepts related to the region, actors, balances, and imbalances according to a multidisciplinary vision with overlapping standards and indicators enables the identification of connections and the
disintegration of relationships resulting from risks that prevent the achievement of stability, and contributes to understanding the state of complexity and interconnection between actors and putting their decisions in context.
