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Mauritania: Five political activists arrested
The North Africa Journal | April 26, 2016: Five members of the movement against constitutional revision proposed by the president have been arrested by the police in the economic capital of Mauritania, Nouadhibou on 23 April. The men were arrested for writing...
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 critical incidents in 2016 to a total of 11,916, according to MEA Risk LLC. Despite such increase, MEA Risk’s Instability Index, measuring the crisis...
French military presence in Africa unlikely to change post 2017 presidential elections
January 2017: Despite a deadly year of terror in France, partly tied to the country’s involvement in major conflict zones, Paris is looking to maintain such involvement, and may even increase it. The upcoming presidential elections are not likely to witness a major...
Mauritania’s Brutal Crackdown of Anti-Slavery Campaigners
Mauritania is one of the very few countries that continues to endorse slavery in pratice, despite laws that ban it. And the government, dominated by Arab ethnics has been using all of its powers to prevent any challenge to the humiliating and barbarian practice of...
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