French withdrawals from Africa After Mali, Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic, France is being forced to...
1 Up Front Bound
Niger and ECOWAS: The cost of collective punishment
Lines of hundreds of trucks stretch back many kilometres close to Benin's northern border with Niger, their cargo...
Libya: Unrest in Derna
By Amanda Mouawad: Hundreds of protesters rallied in Libya's disaster-hit Derna on Monday, accusing the authorities of...
Algeria: A Parliament in Disarray
The North Africa Journal: 18 October 2018: The Algerian political system has been mired in internal divisions and weak...
Europe in search of partners in North Africa to block illegal immigration
The North Africa Journal - September 20, 2018: There appears to be an uptick in entry of foreign migrants into Europe...
Algeria: Military reshuffle confirms uncertainty ahead of elections
The North Africa Journal -By Hakim Briki - August 23, 2018: President Bouteflika has ordered an important military...
Algeria: Movement against reelection of Bouteflika makes waves after police disrupt first protest
The North Africa Journal - August 16, 2018 - By Hakim Briki: Mouwatana, a movement created in June 2018 to dissuade...
Libya: Critical Incidents Map for July 2018. Libya risk remains highly elevated
The North Africa Journal - August 8, 2018: For the period of 1 July to 7 August 2018, there were 64 critical incidents...
Morocco: Central Danone and PJD minister first victims of an unusual boycott
The North Africa Journal - June 8, 2018: For several weeks now, a call to boycott three major brands in the Moroccan...
Algerian government outraged after journalist broadcasts anti-Bouteflika video from EU HQ
The North Africa Journal - June 8, 2018: Algerian journalist Layla Haddad Lefevre, who used to be the correspondent of...
Presentation: The sources of instability in the Sahel
The North Africa Journal - June 5, 2018: This is a presentation made by MEA Risk Analyst and North Africa Journal...
Restive southeast Tunisia struggles with economic despair
The North Africa Journal - May 31, 2018: Economic Brief: A parliamentary report released this week in Tunisia caught...
Libya: Nothing new achieved in yet another Paris conference on Libya
By Arezki Daoud, MEA Risk Lead Analyst - May 31, 2018: The headlines in some of the world’s media read as if something...
Violence escalates in the Sahel, surge of communal conflicts
The North Africa Journal - May 31, 2018: Violence in Mali continues to escalate, making dozens of deaths, including...
Algeria: More insurgents surrender as military renews call for amnesty, says MEA Risk
The North Africa Journal: May 17, 2018: MEA Risk LLC reports that four more Islamic insurgents surrendered to the army...
Morocco severs diplomatic ties with Iran over Polisario support
The North Africa Journal - May 2, 2018: Morocco will sever diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran’s support for the...
Algeria’s 2017 defense spending down, still highest in Africa
The North Africa Journal - May 2, 2018: Algeria’s military spending in 2017 fell by 5.2% in 2017 to settle at $9.6...
Algeria: Presidency signals another term for Bouteflika as FLN endorses 2019 bid
The North Africa Journal - 9 April 2018: The possibility of President Bouteflika to run for another term is now...
Algerians brace for currency devaluation, fueling informal forex
The North Africa Journal - 5 April 2018: The informal foreign currency exchange market (forex) in Algeria is more...
Libya: Haftar seeks to degrade Chadian mercenaries in Southern Libya
The North Africa Journal- April 4, 2018: The air force controlled by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar has been targeting...
Morocco: More arrests in Jerada as population calls for tangible economic plan
The North Africa Journal - April 4, 2018: The end of March saw an uptick in arrests in the mining town of Jerada in...
Mali: And more foreign troops without an endgame
The North Africa Journal: March 27, 2018: Canada is now the latest to have announced the upcoming deployment of its...
Libya: No hope for stability anytime soon
The North Africa Journal - February 21, 2018: No one seems to know what to do with Libya these days. French President...
Uber withdraws from Morocco
The North Africa Journal: February 21, 2018: There is a great deal of jubilation among Morocco’s taxi drivers and the...
Algeria: Five soldiers killed in a Tebessa sweeping operation
Five soldiers were killed today (14 February) in a bomb explosion in Tebessa, near the Tunisian border, according to...
Tunisia: Difficult Road to Stability
The North Africa Journal - February 13, 2018: Tunisia continues to face several pain points that the government is...
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...
Tunisia: Protests spreading over inflation, riots in Kasserine
The North Africa Journal - January 8, 2018: Since January 1st, the prices of basic food products have skyrocketed in...
Regional politics and entrenched business interests complicate Morocco’s ECOWAS membership bid
The North Africa Journal - December 21, 2017: There has been a setback in Morocco’s efforts to join the Economic...
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...
Morocco: Fallout from el-Hoceima unrest: Royal purge of government continues
The North Africa Journal - November 22, 2017: On November 13, 2017, a second round of firings hit the Moroccan...
Morocco: Food distribution in Essaouira turns deadly, over a dozen killed
The North Africa Journal - November 19, 2017: At least 15 people died when they were crushed during a stampede in...
Moroccan King fires junior ministers: leadership or scapegoating?
The North Africa Journal - November 3, 2017 - [Photo: State auditor Driss Jettou making case against ministers before...
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...
Tunisia’s economic challenges: are they insurmountable?
The North Africa Journal - August 24, 2017: While the Tunisian government is drafting the country’s next budget,...
The Sahel about to be more militarized, as Russia looks for some action in Niger and Nigeria
The North Africa Journal- August 23, 2017- More trouble ahead for the Sahel region and West Africa. On 22 August,...
Two Sahel nations take different paths to their constitutions: Mauritania changes it, Mali does not
The North Africa Journal- August 21, 2017- Two Sahel countries, Mauritania and Mali, have been preparing to amend...
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...
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...