Thursday, May 9, 2019
The northwestern province of Sidi Bel Abbes is the mirror of what is occurring across the entire country as social unrest escalates amid the political gridlock in Algiers. Various protest actions have been occurring since 4 May 2019 in different municipalities of the...
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
In this podcast, recorded 7 May 2019, MEA Risk analysts Alessandro Bruno and Arezki Daoud discuss the state of affairs in Libya as fighting continues in Tripoli and as Ramadan begins. [Download audio here | on iTunes | on Google Play | on Android devices | on Spotify...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Algiers, May 7, 2019 – Thousands of Algerian students joined the first rally of Ramadan on Tuesday, pressing on with weeks of protests against the ruling elite after president Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit. Wearing national flags over their shoulders, crowds...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tripoli, May 7, 2019 – Troops loyal to Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar said Tuesday they shot down a warplane and captured its foreign “mercenary” pilot near the capital Tripoli. The Mirage F1 was downed in Al-Hira region, 70 kilometres (43...
Monday, May 6, 2019
Monday, May 6, 2019
Monday, May 6, 2019
Bamako, May 6, 2019 (AFP) – Mali’s president has named a new government after its predecessor resigned last month amid widespread protests over an upsurge of deadly inter-communal violence, a presidency statement said. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Sunday...
Monday, May 6, 2019
Monday, May 6, 2019
Tripoli, May 6, 2019 – Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive against Tripoli last month, has urged his troops to teach unity government forces an “even harder lesson”, as the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan begins....
Monday, May 6, 2019
Tripoli, May 6, 2019 – Libya’s internationally recognised government said Monday its head Fayez al-Sarraj will tour Europe to seek support against an attack on Tripoli by strongman Khalifa Haftar, who urged his troops to “wipe out” government...
Monday, May 6, 2019
Tunis, May 5, 2019 – Tunisian security forces have killed three suspected jihadists from an Islamic State group affiliate in the centre of the country, the interior ministry said Sunday. A statement said “three of the most dangerous terrorists” from...
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Three notorious figures of the Bouteflika regime, men who can easily be identified as deep-state operators, who have had devastating impact on Algerian politics over the past 20 years are now in military custody. The arrest ordered by a...
Friday, May 3, 2019
MEA Risk’s Arezki Daoud reviews the major political and security highlights that took place in North Africa for the week ending 28 April 2019.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Tripoli, May 2, 2019 (AFP) – Dozens of Libyan lawmakers supporting the internationally-recognised government on Thursday condemned an offensive by commander Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli, as they staged a meeting in the capital. The legislators have announced a...
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: There is no mystery as to who support warlord Haftar in his raids on the civilian populations of Tripoli. Using “terrorism” is an old pretext that no one is buying anymore. Egypt, Saudi Arabi and the UAE (I will call collectively...
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: As there seems to be a consensus among the stakeholders of the Malian political establishment in Bamako on the formation of a government, the terrible situation in the center and the north of the country will require more than a simple...
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Salé, Morocco, May 2, 2019 – A Moroccan court adjourned on Thursday for two weeks the trial of two dozen suspects charged in connection with the murder of two Scandinavian hikers minutes after it opened. Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and...
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Ouagadougou, May 2, 2019 – Europe must adopt a common position to resolve the Libyan crisis, which has boosted unrest in the Sahel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday in Burkina Faso, a country hard-hit by jihadist violence. Her visit coincided with a...
