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Tunisia: Difficult Road to Stability
Tunisia continues to face several pain points that the government is struggling to contain. On the economic front, new data points confirm the tough start of the year for the country. Its foreign exchange reserves have dropped to 11.8 billion dinars ($4.98 billion)... read moreNigeria’s grazing wars are now deadlier than Boko Haram
Most people think of Boko Haram when they think of the top security problem facing Nigeria. That may be true until you learn more about one of the outcomes of the Boko Haram onslaught in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram’s reign of terror affected millions of people,... read moreKidnappings, insurgencies, and grazing wars: Nigeria’s escalating domestic crises
Nigeria’s MEA Risk stability rating fluctuates from week to week between moderate-risk and high-risk zone, leaning more to the latter considering the plethora of domestic security issues it is facing. For the week ending 21 January 2018, there were 46 critical... read moreNigeria’s stability assessment
For the period of 11 to 17 December 2017, there were 55 critical incidents in Nigeria, resulting in 36 deaths and 63 arrests. Criminality accounted for nearly 35%, followed by Security-related incidents with 18.37%. There have been many protests and demonstrations... read moreAlgeria stability week in review
In the period between 7 and 13 December 2017, there were 83 critical incidents in Algeria, resulting in eight deaths and 480 arrests, including 267 immigrants, 97 drug traffickers and 38 contraband smugglers. Algeria’s MEA Risk’s Stability Rating for that week ended... read moreMEA Risk Analyst Arezki Daoud speaks of Maghreb security and counter-terror strategies
On December 4, 2017, MEA Risk Analyst and North Africa Journal Editor, Arezki Daoud spoke at the Washington DC headquarters of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Algeria and Morocco’s strategies to counter terrorism. The event saw... read moreNigeria week in review – podcast summary for week ending Aug. 27, 2017
http://mearisk-server.com/podcasts/westafrica/Nigeria-week-ending-27August-2017.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSSThis 8eight-min podcast reviews Nigeria’s political and security environment for the week ending 27 August... read moreEgypt: Insurgency-military conflict intensifies, with July 2017 showing new records
Egypt is witnessing a broad reduction in the number of critical incidents on the year-over-year basis, as tracked by MEA Risk’s Critical Incidents Tracker. Compared to July 2016, the number of incidents considered to have had an impact on stability in Egypt fell 51.8%... read more