Africa 2019 elections preview- Part 1: Tunisia

MEA Risk analysts Arezki Daoud and Alessandro Bruno are discussing elections in four African countries in this four-part series. The free-flowing chat will take us to Tunisia in this podcast, followed by Algeria in part 2, then Nigeria and Mozambique. Tunisia, despite...

Algeria’s other military campaigns

MEA Risk reports that for the period of 1 to 7 November 2018, there were 53 critical incidents recorded in Algeria, resulting in a single death and 392 arrests.  The share of the Criminality category in the week’s total incident pool was 39%, with authorities...

Libya: Paris conference on Libya unlikely to yield positive outcome

May 31, 2018 – By Arezki Daoud, Lead Analyst, MEA Risk LLC:  The headlines in some of the world’s media read as if something new happened in Paris this week. One of them says “Libyan factions agree to December 10 elections at Paris talks,” suggesting to the...

Sahel: Violence escalates, surge of communal conflicts

MEA Risk Security Brief – May 31, 2018: Violence in Mali continues to escalate, making dozens of deaths, including among Tuareg and Fulani civilians caught in a conflict that has no solution in sight. Over the past weekend, some 20 people were killed in the...