Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Bamako, Jan 21, 2020 – Teachers in Mali declared a strike over a pay dispute Tuesday with the government threatening to break the protest by using thousands of already-jobless teachers. Eight teaching unions are demanding that the government honour a pledge made...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Advisory firm MEA Risk LLC released a brief to its client suggesting that the instability in Burkina Faso and neighboring countries will likely escalate going forward. The audio portion of the brief is posted above. The MEA Risk note says Burkina Faso is a complex...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tunis, Jan 20, 2020 – Former finance minister Elyes Fakhfakh was named prime minister-designate by Tunisia’s president late Monday, and will now face the difficult task of forming a cabinet within a month. Newly elected President Kais Saied “on...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
United Nations, United States, Jan 20, 2020 – A United Nations panel said Monday it had no “credible evidence” of Sudanese paramilitaries fighting in conflict-wracked Libya for military strongman Khalifa Haftar as alleged by some media outlets....
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Lagos, Jan 21, 2020 – Nigeria’s anti-graft agency said Tuesday it had filed corruption charges against a former justice minister over a $1.3 billion dollar oil scandal involving international majors Shell and Eni. Mohammed Adoke was arrested last month on...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Niamey, Jan 21, 2020 – Niger’s election commission said Tuesday it had suspended a voter registration drive in a western border region buffeted by jihadist insurgents. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said because of security...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Cairo, Jan 21, 2020 – An Egyptian court has ordered the country’s interior minister to reveal the whereabouts of a missing former parliamentarian believed to be in state custody, his wife told AFP Tuesday. Mostafa al-Naggar, a former opposition lawmaker...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tripoli, Jan 21, 2020 – The United States called Tuesday for an immediate resumption of Libya’s lifeline oil exports that have been blocked by forces loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar since last week. “The suspension of National Oil...
Monday, January 20, 2020
N’Djamena, Jan 20, 2020 – Nine civilians died in western Chad after a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives in an area targeted in the past by jihadist group Boko Haram, the army and officials said on Monday. Chad is one of the countries...
Monday, January 20, 2020
Kano, Nigeria, Jan 20, 2020 – Heavily armed jihadists have carried out an “extremely violent” attack on a vital aid facility housing United Nations workers in northeast Nigeria, the UN said Monday. No aid workers were harmed in the assault, but a...
Monday, January 20, 2020
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: All the roads leading to Tripoli are paved with landmines. The Berlin conference was a great initiative, and kudos to Angele Merkel for trying. But I fear it ended with no major progress and clear signs that the violence will not end anytime...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Rabat, Jan 17, 2020 – Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Morocco of holding a dual Belgian-Moroccan citizen in “inhuman” and “abusive solitary detention” for more than three years following his 2009 life sentence on terrorism charges....
Sunday, January 19, 2020
UPDATE: Gunmen known for their support to Khalifa Haftar closed on Sunday morning halted the flow of crude oil by shutting down the pipelines that reach the Zawiya port. The closure came after tribes loyal to Haftar threatened to do so, in protest against the Turkish...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Tunis, Jan 18, 2020 – A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced eight people to death in a trial for a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus that killed 12. The November 24, 2015 suicide bombing in the capital Tunis claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) killed a...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Ouagadougou, Jan 17, 2020 – Six Burkina Faso soldiers were killed Friday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside explosive in a northern province, security sources said, in the latest attack on the country’s armed forces. No group claimed immediate...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Niamey, Jan 19, 2020 – Nearly 7,000 people have fled the region in western Niger where jihadist fighters killed 89 soldiers in a devastating attack earlier this month, the UN refugee agency said. But insecurity in the region is making it difficult for the UNHCR...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Algiers, Jan 19, 2020 – Twelve people were killed and another 46 injured when two buses collided early Sunday in Algeria’s northeast, emergency services said, in the latest tragedy of its kind in the North African country. Emergency teams arrived at...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Berlin, Jan 19, 2020 – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed US “outrage” in a meeting Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over the death of an American national imprisoned in Egypt since 2013. Mustafa Kassem, a 54-year-old...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Washington, Jan 14, 2020 – An American citizen whose case was raised by top US leaders died Monday after more than six years in custody in Egypt, his representatives said, drawing criticism by Washington of its authoritarian ally. Mustafa Kassem, a New York...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Tunis, Jan 10, 2020 – The Tunisian parliament on Friday rejected the government of Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli after months of negotiations between political parties to fill positions. Jemli, an independent, was nominated by the Islamist inspired...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Geneva, Jan 14, 2020 – Heavy clashes have spurred a growing exodus of migrants from Libya, but nearly 1,000 intercepted at sea have been forced to return to the war-ravaged country since January 1, the UN said Tuesday. Since the start of the year, as many as...
Monday, January 13, 2020
The discussion on Libya that follows was recorded on the 10 of January. The discussion between MEA Risk’s Arezki Daoud and Alessandro Bruno took place a day or two before the two warring parties agreed on a truce. Although there have been some minor breached to the...
Monday, January 13, 2020
Bamako, Jan 10, 2020 – Hundreds of people in Mali on Friday protested against the presence of foreign troops in their country, just days ahead of a summit meant to “clarify” France’s military role in the region. Malian and foreign soldiers have...
Monday, January 13, 2020
In this episode, Arezki Daoud of risk assessment firm MEA Risk LLC and editor of the North Africa Journal, looks at the intersection of business corruption and political corruption in Algeria. Listen on major podcast platforms: Spotify | TuneIn | iTunes | Android |...
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Niamey, Jan 12, 2020 – A jihadist attack on a military camp in western Niger three days ago left 89 soldiers dead, according to a new toll announced by the government on public radio Sunday. “After a thorough search, the toll has been established as 89...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Niamey, Jan 6, 2020 – Niger police have arrested more than 300 Sudanese asylum seekers after accusing them of burning down a UN refugee camp in the north of the country, prosecutors said on Monday. The Niger town of Agadez has become a major transit point for...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Metekel, Ethiopia, Jan 7, 2020 – Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centres bereft of modern equipment, a dependence on flashlights after sundown — Kafule Yigzaw experienced all these struggles and more growing up without electricity in rural...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Bamako, Jan 7, 2020 – A former Malian government official claimed responsibility Tuesday for embarrassing tweets from the president’s account which labelled the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani as a “fuck-up”. Malian...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Cairo, Jan 7, 2020 – Egypt’s flag carrier has suspended flights to the Iraqi capital for three days for security reasons, the civil aviation ministry said Tuesday. The suspension takes effect Wednesday and comes after the killing of Iranian commander...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Monday, January 6, 2020
Bamako, Jan 6, 2020 (AFP) – Five Malian soldiers were killed Monday in a roadside bomb attack, a government spokesperson said, in the latest violence to hit the West African country’s volatile central region. The troops were travelling in the region of...
Monday, January 6, 2020
Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar announced this morning (Monday, 6 January) his troops entered the coastal city of Sirte and seized Ghardabiya airport and the country’s biggest military base from militias loyal to the Tripoli government. The Misrata forces, which...
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Tripoli, Jan 4, 2020 – At least 28 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday in an air strike on a military school in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a ministry spokesman said. “An air raid on the military school of Tripoli killed 28 cadets and injured...
