Governance Bound

Editorial by Arezki Daoud: It’s official, Covid-19 is now North Africa’s biggest problem, just as it is for the entire world. In recent times, we have heard of, but from afar, diseases such as the Ebola virus in West Africa, the plague epidemic in Madagascar, and...

Cairo, March 18, 2020 - The World Health Organization urged Middle Eastern governments Wednesday to be more forthcoming with information about new coronavirus infections in order to effectively combat the global pandemic. "We can only control this disease if we have...

MEA Risk brief:  The municipality of Tunis resuscitated the old means of communicating official statements with loudspeakers.  On Tuesday, 17 March  2020, the city's awareness campaign against used pickup trucks and vans equipped with speakers to ask residents to stay...

Several Muslim countries have decided to close their mosques and ban collective prayers to protect their populations from COVID-19. Tunisia issued the mandatory suspension of prayers on 15 March as it closed cafes and banned all cultural, sporting and economic...