From afar, this looks like a deal made in heaven. French oil form Total will pay US peer Occidental $8.8 billion to acquire the African assets of Anadarko. Occidental’s takeover of Anadarko seems like a good opportunity for the French company to increase its already...
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...
MEA Risk – May 31, 2018: Economic Brief:: A parliamentary report released this week in Tunisia caught our attention because it addressed, in an honest way, the major issues facing the restive southeastern Tunisia, and by extension many other regions. On May 24,...
This 8eight-min podcast reviews Nigeria’s political and security environment for the week ending 27 August 2017. Listen here, on iTunes, Google Play or download audio file while on the go....
The outlook for the oil market, from the perspective of exporters looks grim. This situation will likely exacerbate the security, social and political tensions in various exporting countries that we track, including the populous nations of Nigeria, Algeria and even...
Nasser Zefzafi, the figurehead of the Hirak protest movement that shook the northcentral Rif region of El-Hoceima in Morocco remains in police custody in Casablanca, having been arrested on 29 May. Zefzafi was initially arrested for having interrupted a religious...
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