Week in Review Podcast: Ending 20 May 2023

Posted On 23 May 2023

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Welcome to this episode of North Africa and the Sahel week-in-review, for the period ending Saturday, 20th of May. Today is the 22nd of May and greetings to all. So the week in the northern half of Africa ended with a lot of political tension in the Maghreb region, consisting of countries located along the southern Mediterranean coastline, and both political stress and physical violence in the Sahel region. In this podcast, Arezki Daoud goes through the major events affecting the northern half of Africa during the week ending 20 May 2023.

 

 

 

Other Articles in this Week's Issue<< Mauritania: Ruling party wins legislative and local elections, opposition claims “massive fraud”Sahel: Another bloody Sunday in Burkina Faso >>
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