Egypt faces a deepening energy crisis as natural gas production crashes 39%, forcing a return to costly LNG imports and the unpopular decision to use polluting fuel oil. With multinationals like Chevron exiting failed exploration blocks and summer blackouts looming,...
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U.S. Trade Policy Is Accelerating China–North Africa Economic and Defense Engagement
U.S. trade tariffs are accelerating China’s push into developing economies, with North Africa emerging as a key frontier. From a $265 million phosphate plant in Egypt to multi-billion-dollar industrial agreements in Algeria and renewed commercial diplomacy in Libya,...
Syria’s New Ruler Faces Jihadist Rebellion and Internal Strife
Ahmed Al-Charaa, once a top jihadist leader, now rules Syria after toppling Bashar al-Assad. But his grip on power is fragile. While rebranding himself as a moderate, he faces opposition from the Islamic State, which sees him as an apostate, and from former allies who...
Could Syria Avoid a Repeat of the Libyan Disaster: Opinion by Arezki Daoud
By Arezki Daoud: What is happening in Syria cannot leave us insensitive to the plight of the Syrian people, who have endured decades of abuse from the Assad family and its cronies. From the father Hafad al-Assad to his son Bachar al-Assad, the Syrian people...
Egypt: Efforts at a National Dialogue Undermined by an Unhinged Political Police
Egypt is sending mix signals on its human rights records. Some in Cairo’s political system are trying hard to project the image of an Egypt complying with international human rights standards, but the security apparatus remains active in undermining those efforts and...
Egypt Gets Massive Injections of Cash, but Outlook is Still Shaky
By Arezki Daoud | LinkedIn | Egypt has many powerful allies, including those in the global financial sector. No one wants to see it collapse, so money is flowing in a-go-go. Despite a dismal economic performance, global rating agencies, which acknowledge that Egypt is...
Podcast: Egypt 2024 Outlook
Egypt’s economy hit hard by Houthis’ attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea
The US and the UK hitting Houthi targets in Yemen is largely the result of a sense of panic taking place in commercial...
JPMorgan de-lists Egypt from its Emerging Market Bond Index (S)
Egypt military claims it killed two insurgents in Western Desert
Cairo, Feb 2, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt's military said Saturday it had killed eight jihadists in air strikes in the Western...
Egypt: Al Sisi, President for Life
Cairo, Feb 3, 2019 - Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday tabled proposed constitutional changes that would allow President...
Urban Issues: The stray dogs and wild boars of North African cities
Opinion by Arezki Daoud - January 29, 2019: There could be as many as 15 million stray dogs roaming the streets of...
Egypt sinks deeper into dangerous conservatism, jails TV host Gheiti over gay interview
Editor's note- By Arezki Daoud: Egypt is going through a tumultuous period, not just because of the terror attacks...
Egypt: Army says it killed five insurgents in North Sinai
Cairo, Jan 16, 2019 - Egyptian police killed five suspected Islamic militants in North Sinai, where security forces...
Egypt court orders release of mother held over ‘false news’
Cairo, Jan 15, 2019 (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the release of a woman accused of spreading "false...
Egypt: Al-Azhar leaders lost their minds that even top conservative cleric asked them to think a little
They lost the trust of the population and now some Egyptian leaders appear to just have lost their minds. One of them,...
Egypt deports second German alleged ‘jihadist’
Berlin, Jan 14, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt has deported the second of two young German men who were arrested last month as...
Eastern Mediterranean countries to boost energy ties
Cairo, Jan 14, 2019 - Eastern Mediterranean countries including Egypt and Israel agreed on Monday to boost energy ties...
Egypt: Six suspected militants killed by police in Sohag
Cairo, Jan 12, 2019 (AFP) - Egyptian police killed six suspected Islamist militants in a shootout early Saturday in...
Egypt arrests two Germans suspected to be joining Islamic State
Cairo, Jan 11, 2019 - Egypt has arrested two German nationals on suspicion they tried to join an Islamic State group...
Egypt: Activist Ahmed Douma gets 15 years in prison
Cairo, Jan 9, 2019 - A leading figure in Egypt's 2011 revolution [see profile here] was handed 15 years in prison on...
Profile: Ahmed Douma, Egyptian Political Activist and Blogger
A leading figure in Egypt's 2011 revolution was handed 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a retrial, a judicial...
Egypt: Qatar’s beIN stops broadcasting on Egypt’s CNE cable network
Doha, Jan 8, 2019 - Qatar broadcasting giant beIN said on Tuesday it will stop broadcasting programmes on its only...
Egypt police officer killed defusing church bomb
Cairo, Jan 6, 2019 (AFP) - A policeman was killed while trying to dismantle an explosive device outside a Coptic...
Egypt’s Sisi to inaugurate Coptic cathedral after bomb blast
Cairo, Jan 6, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt's president will inaugurate the country's biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve...
Egypt wants CBS to drop Sisi interview on Israel cooperation: network
Washington, Jan 4, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt has asked CBS not to air an interview with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in...
Not such a happy new year for North Africa
The North Africa Journal: January 11, 2018- The new year started off on the wrong foot for North African nations, and...
The Jihadists are back
The North Africa Journal - 22 November, 2017: Although authorities have so far been able to contain the militant...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Egypt: From military-insurgents confrontation, Sinai conflict shifts to civil war
The North Africa Journal - May 17, 2017: The crisis in the Sinai Peninsula is now spreading both geographically and in...
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: Russian troops in Egypt, near Libya border to help Haftar retake control of oil sites
The North Africa Journal - 14 March 2017 - An unidentified number of Russian troops is reported to have been deployed...
Egypt: Mubarak walks free
The North Africa Journal - March 13, 2017 - After six years in luxury confinement, the Egyptian Prosecutor has ordered...
Libya: Egypt claims AQIM participated in seizure of oil-rich town
According to the Egyptian foreign ministry, elements of Al-Qaeda participated in the attack on Libya's oil crescent.
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...
Women’s rights: one step forward, two steps back
The North Africa Journal - March 8, 2017 - Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. It is a good time to take a...
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...
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...
Egypt Jeopardizes Tourism and FDI Recovery with Disruptive Policies
The sustained attacks by IS and other insurgents against tourist targets in Egypt have had a severe dampening effect...
Metrojet crash in the Sinai is likely to worsen Egyptian economy
MEA Risk LLC released a research note following the UK government's ordering a suspension of flights to the Egyptian...
Egypt’s Credibility Problem
The Egyptian military has been going on a PR campaign of sorts to insure they have the upper hand in the aggressive...