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Sahel: French forces are leaving Niger this week
France said Thursday that it would start withdrawing its troops from Niger this week after a falling-out with the post-coup regime, which insists the exit be carried out in accordance with its "conditions". The announcement by the French army follows weeks of tensions...
SECURITY & DEFENSE
Last French hostage Serge Lazarevic freed
French President François Hollande announced today the release of Serge Lazarevic. Kidnapped in Hombori (Mali) by al- Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) November 24, 2011 with Philippe Verdon , who was assassinated in 2013, Serge Lazarevic , 50, was the last French...
Boko Haram Targets Niger, Panic in the East of the Country
Niger, the northern neighbor of Nigeria is now on the target list of the West African Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Boko Haram’s attacks within Nigeria forced thousands of residents to seek refuge in Niger, which is now getting the unwanted attention as a target...
Tunisia’s Presidential Elections’ Outlook: Essebsi’s Almost Guaranteed Victory
MEA Risk says the first round of the Tunisian presidential elections turned out to be democratic, transparent, free, and trouble-free. Although the two competing candidates had an important 6% difference in the results, Tunisian law requires a second round to close...
A Story of Gold, Misery and a Territory under Surveillance
Since April 2014, an unprecedented frenzy has taken shape in northern Niger. This state of tension came with the discovery of three gold sites in the Agadez region, where new fortunes were created, and where thousands sank all their savings trying to get rich. MEA...
Egypt: The Extraordinary Tale of a Wholesale Death Sentence
The Egyptian regime is using some of the most severe tools of punishment to signal its Islamist foes that it means business. Death sentencing is obviously one of them, except that in Egypt it is done en-mass and without sufficient due diligence and investigations to...
The Fall of Derna (Libya) to ISIS is not New
The international media, in particular CNN has focused a great deal of attention to the city of Derna in Eastern Libya, making headlines about being under the control of the Islamic State. In fact, Derna has long been in the hands of the Islamic State through local...
Despite quiet week, Mali faces unprecedented challenges
MEA Risk's Critical Incidents Tracker reports that despite a relatively quiet week (ending November 30th, 2014), the Sahelian nation of Mali is facing a series of challenges that promise to make governance a very difficult task. From a stability perspective, the...
Crisis in Egypt Likely to Persist
Egypt is facing what Algeria faced in the 1990s. Nothing is working. The economy is in despair and a civil war is underway essentially pitting the military in power to Islamist factions. Sister company MEA Risk says the latter could be summarized into two major...
An Open Letter To The Israelis And Palestinians
I have been writing about your conflict for more than three decades. Invariably, I find myself delving into the same themes time and again. The nature of the conflict remains the same. You coexist, and short of self-inflicted catastrophe, you are destined to coexist...
Israel: The Danger From Within
The nearly seven decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to overshadow the brewing conflict between the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel. There is overwhelming evidence that successive Israeli governments failed to reconcile between...
INSURGENCIES & TERRORISM
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