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Algeria Opens First of Five Seawater Desalination Plants to Combat Water Shortages
On Thursday, February 20, 2025, Algeria opened the first of five planned seawater desalination stations, located in...
Franco-Algerian Diplomatic Relations in Turmoil
The Franco-Algerian diplomatic relations are going through a turbulent period. The latest signs of discord between...
Algeria stability week in review by MEA Risk
The North Africa Journal - December 20, 2017: MEA Risk releases threat assessments for various countries, and the...
The Jihadists are back
The North Africa Journal - 22 November, 2017: Although authorities have so far been able to contain the militant...
Algeria-Morocco: Algeria’s top diplomat starts new feud with Morocco
The North Africa Journal - November 3, 2017 - Algeria’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel has shown...
Algeria: The ex-official who won’t quit: PM Ouyahia defends ex Energy Minister Chakib Khelil
The North Africa Journal- November 3, 2017 - In an unexpected move, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has defended Chakib...
As Algeria ups its defensive capabilities, North Africa braces for an influx of new insurgents
The North Africa Journal - September 7, 2017: Over the past 20 years, the Algerian defense system has been largely...
Algeria: The oligarchs win, Prime Minister Tebboune fired and replaced by long-time Bouteflika supporter Ouyahia
The North Africa Journal- August 16, 2017- Ahmed Ouyahia, the Chief-of-Staff of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the...
Industry: Despite establishment of Renault, Hyundai and Volkswagen plants in Algeria, government looking to revisit assembly sector
The North Africa Journal: August 10, 2017: The Algerian automobile market is facing a strange evolution whereby...
Algeria: Feud between Prime Minister and oligarchs exposes Algeria’s central problem: who is in charge?
The North Africa Journal- August 10, 2017: The Algerian political system has been witnessing a new feud in the open...
North Africans boost security measures to prevent cheating in baccalaureate exam
The North Africa Journal: June 9, 2017: If you ask any high school student in the Maghreb to list their biggest...
Explosive social unrest across the Maghreb region
The North Africa Journal - May 24, 2017 - The Maghreb countries of North Africa are facing an unprecedented level of...
Algerian elections: A vote of no confidence for an emperor without clothes
The North Africa Journal- May 11, 2017: In a short story published in 1837, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen...
The Algerian legislative elections: the results
The North Africa Journal - May 7, 2017: The Algerian ministry of interior says voter participation was 38.25% on 4...
Algeria to require food industry to certify its products Halal
North Africa Journal- May 4, 2017: The Algerian government will require food vendors to certify their product to the...
Uncertainty over Italy’s renewal of key gas deal with Algeria
The North Africa Journal - May 4, 2017: Since the beginning of the year, Italy has been sending mix signals about the...
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,...
Algeria reinforces troops in southeast border, as crisis deepens in south Libya
The North Africa Journal - April 27, 2017: Although Algeria has been deploying more military assets along its western...
Algeria braces for voter apathy in May 4 legislative elections, low turnout expected
The North Africa Journal - April 23, 2017 - Campaigning for the legislative elections slated for 4 May 2017 in Algeria...
Algeria: Government to propose bill on doctrinal deviation (By MEA Risk)
The minister of religious affairs, Mohammed Aissa, has announced that a draft bill targeting "doctrinal deviation" is...
Algeria: Ailing President appears on TV, but uncertainty persists
The North Africa Journal - March 22, 2017- Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika reappeared in a brief video...
Algeria: Major controversy over replacement of Sonatrach CEO
The North Africa Journal - March 20, 2017 - The CEO of the Algerian company Sonatrach is a very powerful man. ...
New activity on the Western Sahara conflict, but no one knows where this is headed
The North Africa Journal - March 6, 2017 - The UN envoy to the Western Sahara Christopher Ross has handed over his...
Algeria: Massive weapons cache found near Niger border
MEA Risk Alert: March 5, 2017: The Algerian army has discovered, on 4 March, a massive weapons cache near the Nigerien...
Algeria: Police foil suicide attack in Constantine
The North Africa Journal: February 27, 2917: A suicide attack targeting a police station in Bab el-Kantara, in the...
Labor Unions: Localized and segmented unions in North Africa seek better coordination
The North Africa Journal - Feb 21, 2017: Labor protests have been a major source of the heightened level of social...
Algeria: Tensions deepen among the opposition over legislative elections
Tension between the opposition parties Jil Jadid (New Generation) and the Islamist-leaning Movement for Society and...
Outlook: Yet another cycle of uncertainty for the region
As the armed forces and security services manage to control, to a certain extent, the terror threat, the Greater North...
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...
Algerian authorities confronted with localized labor unrest, escalation in 2017
While the Algerian authorities continue to focus a great deal of attention and resources on preventing attacks from...
More Belt-Tightening Ahead for Algeria
The North Africa Journa: October 2, 2016: Algeria continues to seek cost containment measures, with growing...
As counter-terror campaign intensifies in Algeria, Libya’s weapons making their way into the country
In the first four months of 2016, the Algerian army has killed 31 Islamist insurgents, and captured 33 others...
BP and Statoil Reducing their Staffs in Algeria: Consequences on Business Continuity
Although the recent terror attempt on an Algerian gas site, signed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) caused no...
Mortar shell attack on an Algerian gas field, no casualties
According to MEA Risk sources, an insurgent group has attacked a gas field exploited by the Algerian state-owned...
With Peugeot-Citroen Joining Renault, Oran becomes the Capital of Algeria’s Car Assembly Business
Although the companies have not made a formal announcement yet, the Wali (governor) of Oran in western Algeria says...
Bombing of Libya Looms as Neighboring States Seek to Seal the Borders and Build Refugee Towns
Fresh troop movements and unusual activity along the Algeria-Libya borders are clear indications of the potential for...
Maghreb Security: Easing of Tension vs. Ramadan, but Instability Remains Dangerously High
MEA Risk tracking firm says a return to a certain level of normalcy in the Maghreb region has been taking place ever...
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...
Bloodiest Day in Algeria in Almost 15 Years
The province of Ghardaia, in central Algeria has been the scene over the past few days of intercommunal clashes that...
Belmokhtar Likely Escaped US Attack, and the Bizarre Aftermath
According to the Libyan government of Tobruk, the Algerian militant group leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, head of...
Algeria Hard Currency Reserve Stood at $179 Bil in Dec 2014, Down 7.8% Year on Year
Algeria’s political and economic leaders have a big problem. The country’s foreign currency reserves stood at $178.9...
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....