Tunisia Bound

Tunisia: Growing unrest in Tunisia over unemployment and poor economyF

Demonstrations have spread in Tunisia's interior to demand work and investment in the traditionally marginalised region. The latest protests in the country's centre and south come after residents of the southern city of Tataouine reached a November 7 deal with the...

Tunisia slides into repression after jailing of blogger Wajdi MahouechiF

Human Rights Watch accused Tunisia on Tuesday of "regressing" on free speech after a blogger was sentenced to two years' prison over a Facebook post deemed offensive to the judiciary. Wajdi Mahouechi (photo), 31 and a frequent commentator on social media, had...

The unfinished Arab spring: buckle up for the next roundF

The Jasmin Revolution is Far from Over: buckle up for the next round. An opinion by Arezki Daoud Back in the early 1990s, most, if not all analysts, looked at the Algerian uprising of 1988 and concluded that the “revolution was dead and over.” The Algerian regime...

Podcast: Covid-19 in the Maghreb region as of mid-November 2020F

In this brief podcast recorded on 12 November 2020, MEA Risk's Arezki Daoud provides an update on the Coronavirus in the Maghreb region. The state of the Covid-19 epidemic in the Maghreb looks rather bleak as we are reaching the mid-point of November 2020.  As in...

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