From the Editor Bound

At least two rulers in North Africa felt a bit generous this week.  In Morocco, King Mohammed issued an order to free 201 people from prison. They are all nationals of Sub-Saharan nations whose crime was to immigrate outside of their troubled countries and show up in...

Opinion by Arezki Daoud: (you can also listen the opinion by clicking on the audio player above) | France's hawks, those who like to project the image of a superpower, are hoping for some miracle tipping point to take place in the Sahel. Their latest idea is to...

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...

Opinion by Arezki Daoud | Even Hollywood could not have come up with such a dramatic script. The head of the Algeria military junta is dead after 15 years as Defense Chief of Staff and nearly a year as the country's undeclared, but real dictator.  Over the past few...