MEA Risk Research Note: The UK government ordered a suspension of flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, as a result of what it believes to be a strong likelihood of a bomb that downed the Russian airplane. Metrojet Flight 9268, a Russian plane carrying...
Egypt’s militants from the Sinai State organization, which is affiliated to the Islamic State and formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, have begun a campaign to assassinate officers of the Egypt legal system. Last month three judges were gunned down in Al Arish in...
An Egyptian commentator qualified the holy month of Ramadan as “the 30 most spiritual days of the year.” Although for most, it is indeed a month of intense religious practice and spiritualism, it is also for a few an opportunity to push inflationary pressure to higher...
Nairobi, MEA Risk East Africa Office | Analyst: Musyoka wa Kyendo | May 26th, 2015 | Inter-tribal terrorism has now become the largest cause of instability in East Africa. Inter-tribal terrorism is often camouflaged as cattle rustling because it involves pastoral...
Nairobi, MEA Risk East Africa Office | Analyst: Musyoka wa Kyendo | Aggressive military action has degraded the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab, a militant group affiliated to Al-Qaeda. The ongoing reduction in the strength of Al-Shabaab forced the organization to seek a new...
For weeks now rumors of major oil companies preparing to leave Tunisia have circulated in the central administration and in the media. There is no concrete information about many of such exits, but rumors are swirling specifically about Shell and ENI, while the...
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