Miami, FL – MEA Risk LLC – The North Africa and Sahel zone witnessed a 16.0% increase in the number of destabilizing critical incidents in 2016 to a total of 11,916, according to MEA Risk LLC. Despite such increase, MEA Risk’s Instability Index, measuring the...
Despite a deadly year of terror in France, partly tied to the country’s involvement in major conflict zones, Paris is looking to maintain such involvement, and may even increase it. The upcoming presidential elections are not likely to witness a major policy change,...
In addition to being a hotbed for terrorism, the Sahel is very propitious for drugs, weapons and tobacco trafficking. The United Nations suggest that in 2013 and 2014, revenue from such criminal activities reached $3.5 billion. In a region where insecurity has...
The national forum for democracy and unity (FNDU), the Mauritanian coalition of radical opposition parties, has announced that a popular march will be organized on Friday to protest the “suffering inflicted to the Mauritanian population by the president’s...
On the occasion of the celebration of independence day in Mauritania, militants of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA-Mauritania) took to the streets to demand the release of the movement’s president and vice president from...
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