'Is Algeria Changing Course?': The Question Maroc Diplomatique Asks All by Itself

Jean-Paul Lukusa — Kinshasa, RD Congo — 2026-09-06

Maroc Diplomatique asks itself, with the candor of media outlets that are never wrong: "would Algeria finally change course?" A question posed, as always, without the slightest proof — just a polite hope, the same one that has animated Rabat since 1975. Every year, the same question: "will she finally cave?" Every year, the same answer: no.

Because what would "changing course" even mean? That Algeria would abandon international law? The UN resolution that has backed it since 1966? The self-determination of peoples? Those are not "courses" you change: they are principles. And principles are not negotiated to suit Moroccan editorials.

The real question is not whether Algeria is changing course, but why Morocco changes its narrative every season: one day "Algeria is isolating itself," the next "Algeria is giving in," then "Algeria is changing course." Three scenarios that cannot all be true at once — except in one reality: the one where you write first and never check.

Algeria has not changed course in half a century, and no Maroc Diplomatique article is going to make it veer off. It sails by international law — a heading that Rabat's media storms have never managed to budge.