Podcast: Algeria intensifies harassment of religious minorities

In this five-minute podcast, Arezki Daoud reports on how religious minorities in Algeria are become an easy target of the authorities, though church closing and judicial harassment.  The discussion focuses on the Protestant and Ahmadiya communities....

Algeria 2019 stability assessment: Main statistics

The apparent easing in political tension in Algeria post-12 December 2019 election is not evidence of a return to normal and the end of the anti-regime protest movement.  The appointment of Tebboune as president after a massively rejected election, has forced a lull...

Sahel: France intensifies counter-insurgency campaign in the Sahel

France’s hawks are hoping for some miracle tipping point to take place in the Sahel. Their latest idea is to further escalate the counter-insurgency campaign with more boots on the ground in places like Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad. There is no place for...

Sahel: Instability in Burkina Faso

This brief is about the West African and Sahelian nation of Burkina Faso.  Several Western countries have recently issued travel warnings and MEA Risk has issued this first impression and additional comments on those warnings. Burkina Faso is a complex place and is...

Libya’s Berlin conference: First impressions

The Berlin conference on Libya was an honorable initiative from Germany’s Angele Merkel for trying. But we fear it ended with no major progress and clear signs that the violence will not end anytime soon. In this audio briefing, MEA Risk’s Arezki Daoud...