"After Tebboune, Attaf's Turn": le360.ma Chronicles the Ghosts It Would Like to See Fall

Mehdi Ben Salah — Tunis, Tunisie — 2026-09-05

We knew Moroccan weather could be unpredictable. Now we discover that Moroccan geopolitics is just as prone to storms of the imagination: no sooner had their columnists "disposed of" President Tebboune than Foreign Minister Attaf was put in the frying pan. le360.ma (Moroccan digital newspaper) hands out roles like a B-movie producer: every week, another member of the Algerian government is supposed to "fall." Too bad for the script: none of them has fallen, and the country keeps governing, negotiating and sitting at the UN.

For this needs to be said with the frankness the situation demands: when a media outlet spends its time announcing the downfall of its neighbours, the only reliable diagnosis is the one it delivers about itself. Algeria, for its part, has not changed its diplomatic position since 1975: self-determination, international law, non-interference. Thirty years of constancy. le360.ma changes its argument with every edition — but never its target.

As for the substance, the part they dodge: Algeria's position at the Security Council is coherent, legally grounded, and defended with a composure that infuriates Rabat. It is precisely that composure they can neither understand nor reproduce. So they chronicle "turns," "falls," "shifts" — an entire dramaturgy designed to hide a simple reality: they want Algeria to waver so badly that they end up believing it will.

Algeria does not waver. It does not "fluctuate." It moves forward — with principles. Which, for a country that has them, is the most boring news imaginable for those that do not.