Bamako, Oct 6, 2019 - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Sunday rejected as speculation talk of a military...
Sahel & Egypt Bound
Sahel: Boubou Cisse asked to form new government in Mali
Bamako, April 22, 2019 (AFP) - Mali's president on Monday named economy and finance minister Boubou Cisse as the new...
Sahel: Boko Haram attacks military base in Bouhama, Chad
N'Djamena, April 15, 2019 - Fighting between Chad soldiers and Boko Haram jihadists killed dozens, including 63...
Mali: French forces in Mali set up base near Burkina border after major clean up operation
April 10, 2019 - French and Malian troops killed or captured more than 30 extremists and dismantled a jihadist...
Sahel: Mali soldier mistakenly shoots and kills civilian in moment of panic
Bamako, April 9, 2019 - Malian soldiers shot dead at least one villager and injured others after a detonation they...
Sahel: Jihadists attack army camp in Mali’s Mopti region, kill scores of soldiers
Bamako, March 17, 2019 - An attack by suspected jihadists Sunday on an army camp in central Mali killed 23 soldiers,...
Sahel: Niger-Boko Haram conflict intensifies, scores killed in Diffa
Niamey, March 13, 2019 - Niger said Wednesday it had killed 33 Boko Haram "terrorists" and seized vehicles and...
Presentation: The sources of instability in the Sahel
The North Africa Journal - June 5, 2018: This is a presentation made by MEA Risk Analyst and North Africa Journal...
Violence escalates in the Sahel, surge of communal conflicts
The North Africa Journal - May 31, 2018: Violence in Mali continues to escalate, making dozens of deaths, including...
Africawide: Nigeria struggles with its twin conflict of herdsmen and Boko Haram
MEA Risk LLC - May 2, 2018: In its weekly threat assessment report, sister company MEA Risk pains a grim picture of...
The Sahel about to be more militarized, as Russia looks for some action in Niger and Nigeria
The North Africa Journal- August 23, 2017- More trouble ahead for the Sahel region and West Africa. On 22 August,...
Two Sahel nations take different paths to their constitutions: Mauritania changes it, Mali does not
The North Africa Journal- August 21, 2017- Two Sahel countries, Mauritania and Mali, have been preparing to amend...
Egypt: MEA Risk reports new spike in deaths in Egypt, as confrontations between security services and insurgent groups escalate
The North Africa Journal - August 10, 2017: For those who occasionally follow news from Egypt, the past two weeks have...
Egypt: Militants challenge state of emergency, kill 23 soldiers in third attack this week
The North Africa Journal- July 7, 2017: At least 40 insurgents and 23 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb...
Niger: Nine arrested for embezzling money from NGOs
Nine individuals were apprehended in Agadez for forgery on 11 June. The suspects are accused of embezzling money from...
Mali: Police disperse anti-referendum protest
Dozens of protesters have taken to the streets of Bamako to stage a march on 12 June to oppose the referendum on...
How Egypt is escalating the war against its own people: the dark road ahead
The North Africa Journal: June 12, 2017: President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has always argued that the fight against...
Italy’s dangerous bet that Libya would help contain migration flows
The North Africa Journal: June 9, 2017: Italy is naturally troubled by the massive inflow of migrants from Africa and...
Libya/Egypt: Egyptian air strikes target Derna’s al-Jabilah neighborhood
Egypt has launched air strikes on Derna’s al-Jabilah neighborhood on 26 May in retaliation for the attack on Coptic...
Mauritania: Nine dead in clashes between army and drug traffickers
Near Zouerat, in Northern Mauritania, nine drug traffickers and contraband smugglers were killed in a violent skirmish...
Fresh violence in Egypt, 28 civilians and four security personnel killed in two days
The North Africa Journal- May 26, 2017: Using automatic weapons, attackers opened fire on two buses traveling to the...
Egypt’s tough balancing act: The contradictory task of ensuring social peace while delivering economic growth
The North Africa Journal - May 24, 2017 - Egyptian households are bracing of an extremely costly Ramadan season....
Despite economic hardship, defense spending in North Africa & Sahel on the rise
The North Africa Journal | April 27, 2017: Despite severe economic performances affecting the countries’ revenues,...
Egypt: Death toll reaches 49, as government declares state of emergency
The North Africa Journal - April 10, 2017 - President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi declared a three-months state of emergency...
Egypt’s troubles escalate as terrorism undermines any recovery
The North Africa Journal - April 9, 2017 - At least 36 people were killed today (April 9, 2017) in two attacks against...
Egypt: Mubarak walks free
The North Africa Journal - March 13, 2017 - After six years in luxury confinement, the Egyptian Prosecutor has ordered...
How Egypt’s charm offensive abroad is in sharp contrast with its domestic politics
The North Africa Journal - March 8, 2017 - Egypt is working hard to fix its crumbling image abroad. Editorial after...
France lends military support to Niger with 80 troops in north Niamey
The North Africa Journal- March 1, 2017: The recent attacks of jihadist groups along the border Mali and Niger are...
Instability in North Africa and Sahel claims over 8,500 deaths in 2016. MEA Risk expects 2017 to be another crisis year
Miami, FL – MEA Risk LLC - The North Africa and Sahel zone witnessed a 16.0% increase in the number of destabilizing...
French military presence in Africa unlikely to change post 2017 presidential elections
January 2017: Despite a deadly year of terror in France, partly tied to the country’s involvement in major conflict...
Egypt: Two killed in train-bus crash in Giza
Two people were killed in Al-Atf in Giza over the weekend when a train slammed into a bus. The accident, which killed...
Egypt: Explosion in Maadi, Cairo, several injured
An explosion apparently from a grenade thrown by an attacker was reported on Sunday evening on the Autostrad road near...
IS Looking to Widen North Africa Operations, says MEA Risk
There are a lot of chatters and pronouncements in various places about the Islamic State organization (Daesh) seeking...
Egypt Worse Security Week: Outlook Negative
Egypt has been facing an escalation of violence, which made this past week the worse since MEA Risk LLC’s Critical...
Egypt: MEA Risk issues high-risk warning for March 11th to 16th
The Egyptian government, headed by the military is hoping to attract billions of foreign investor dollars to stimulate...
Lack of Coordination and Panic Compromise the African Military Coalition Fighting Boko Haram
Government Troops battling Boko Haram in West, Central Africa and in the Sahel appear poorly equipped and badly...
Can the Chad Reach and Maintain Regional Leadership?
The country of Chad does not want to be called “the Dead Heart of Africa” anymore. Although it is one of the world’s...
North Mali Crisis: The Failure of the Algiers Talks
The fifth round of talks on peace in northern Mali ended in Algiers with nothing in favor of the northern populations....
Islamic States working to drag Egypt into multi-front confrontation, say MEA Risk
MEA Risk issued a brief note on what it expects Egypt's security outlook will be as a result of the killing of 21 of...
Last French hostage Serge Lazarevic freed
French President François Hollande announced today the release of Serge Lazarevic. Kidnapped in Hombori (Mali) by al-...
Boko Haram Targets Niger, Panic in the East of the Country
Niger, the northern neighbor of Nigeria is now on the target list of the West African Islamist militant group Boko...
Mali’s Government Legitimacy Undermined by Corruption Scandals
Two procurement contracts in Mali got the IMF and the World Bank pretty upset. The international institutions have...
A Story of Gold, Misery and a Territory under Surveillance
Since April 2014, an unprecedented frenzy has taken shape in northern Niger. This state of tension came with the...