“Israel’s” technologies in surveillance, defense, and agriculture are expanding across Africa, boosting its influence while raising privacy and political control concerns.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez’s visit to Algiers and the agreement it produced signal a tentative reset in Franco-Algerian ties, pointing to a transitional phase aimed at containing a crisis that has lingered since the summer of 2024.

The Israeli cyberweapons and surveillance industry is closely linked to Tel Aviv’s diplomacy and normalization program in Africa, from Togo to Morocco.

The West, in both its American and European forms, has not completely withdrawn from the African continent, but has restructured its security presence to become more pervasive and less visible.

Civil society pressure on the new Senegalese government has recently succeeded in achieving the first steps toward justice for the victims and their families.