North Africa’s Security
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Sahel: Burkina Faso ratchets up war effort with new army units and taxes for voluntary militia
The North Africa Journal - The new year began in earnest in Burkina Faso, with fresh efforts from the government to create new units and tackle funding for volunteer militiamen. The country has been facing a devastating insurgency and has a military junta that appears...
SECURITY & DEFENSE
Libya: Rival militias skirmish in several Tripoli neighborhoods
Morocco: Three IS suspects captured
Tunisia: Eight businessmen, two smugglers arrested in corruption crackdown
Mauritania: Nine dead in clashes between army and drug traffickers
Fresh violence in Egypt, 28 civilians and four security personnel killed in two days
Egypt: From military-insurgents confrontation, Sinai conflict shifts to civil war
The North Africa Journal - May 17, 2017: The crisis in the Sinai Peninsula is now spreading both geographically and in terms of its scope. Analysts at MEA Risk LLC say that while the conflict has been concentrating on the northeast corner of the region, specifically...
Global Affairs: Saudi power struggle could destabilize the entire Middle East
By Dr. Cyril Widdershoven*: Political instability in Saudi Arabia is growing as King Salman bin Abdulaziz begins to overhaul the Saudi government, putting a long list of family members into positions of influence while increasing the power of his son, Deputy Crown...
Social and labor unrest escalates in Tunisia as the government is running out of ideas
Over the past weekend, the Tunisian central government dismissed two senior provincial officials in the restive Tataouine province located in the southeast, near the Libyan border. In the capital, Prime Minister Chahed also fired his finance and education ministers,...
Despite economic hardship, defense spending in North Africa & Sahel on the rise
Libya: Five killed in LNA air strike
INSURGENCIES & TERRORISM
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