Severity of Crisis in Maghreb/Sahel Region Intensifies, Says MEA-Risk
The North Africa Journal: Sister company MEA-Risk issued its weekly analysis on the multi-faceted crisis affecting the whole Maghreb and Sahel region. The findings show while the number of incidents...
View ArticleIntensity of Crises in Maghreb and Sahel Regions Remains Dangerously High,...
The North Africa Journal: For the week ending June 8, 14, the combined disruptive events recorded by sister company MEA-Risk’s Critical Incidents Tracker showed an intensity that remained within the...
View ArticleMaghreb & Sahel Face Deadliest Period on the Security Front
The North Africa Journal - MEA-Risk released its latest assessment on the state of security and stability in the Maghreb and Sahel region. Findings from MEA-Risk's Critical Incidents Tracker shows that...
View ArticleTrapped Between Delusion And Denial
The Israelis and Palestinians have been trapped for decades between delusions and denial and both have resorted to ideological and religious dogmas that dismiss with conviction any factual evidence to...
View ArticleSeverity of Crisis in Maghreb/Sahel Region Intensifies, Says MEA-Risk
The North Africa Journal: Sister company MEA-Risk issued its weekly analysis on the multi-faceted crisis affecting the whole Maghreb and Sahel region. The findings show while the number of incidents...
View ArticleIntensity of Crises in Maghreb and Sahel Regions Remains Dangerously High,...
The North Africa Journal: For the week ending June 8, 14, the combined disruptive events recorded by sister company MEA-Risk’s Critical Incidents Tracker showed an intensity that remained within the...
View ArticleMaghreb & Sahel Face Deadliest Period on the Security Front
The North Africa Journal - MEA-Risk released its latest assessment on the state of security and stability in the Maghreb and Sahel region. Findings from MEA-Risk's Critical Incidents Tracker shows that...
View ArticleTrapped Between Delusion And Denial
The Israelis and Palestinians have been trapped for decades between delusions and denial and both have resorted to ideological and religious dogmas that dismiss with conviction any factual evidence to...
View ArticleMorocco’s Military Equipment Purchases from France Exceeded $750 million in 2013
Morocco spent more than $2.5 billion in acquiring French military hardware over the past five years. In the decade ending 2013, Morocco was been France’s 6th biggest buyer of French weapons, behind...
View ArticleAlgeria Ends Highway Construction Contract with Group of Japanese Firms
The North Africa Journal | The Algerian government announced that it has ended its contract with a group of Japanese companies formed to build a lengthy section of the Algerian east-west motorway.
View ArticleMoroccan Government Less Stressed about 2014 Economic Performance
The Moroccan government has had many battles to wage on the economic front, and the Premiership of Benkirane was at risk because of it. Weak finances, decreasing exports to traditional markets, a...
View ArticleThe Thorny Issue of Algeria’s Solid Waste Treatment
The French waste management firm Suez Environnement is currently seeking fresh opportunities to enter the Algeria solid waste treatment market. The firm has recently dispatched some of its senior...
View ArticleThe Libyan Impasse: Two Competing Governments Preparing to Fight to the Death
When we entered September 2014, Libya felt calmer and more subdued. Very little in the form of violent confrontation got recorded within the city center proper, although the western districts remained...
View ArticleMaghreb & Sahel Top10 Deadliest Cities
Tallying the figures of terrorism and/or politically-motivated killings shows again that Libyan cities were the deadliest in August 2014. The chart below provides a visual of the cities/regions that...
View ArticleAmid Ebola and ISIS Threat, Morocco Withdrawal from Hosting Africa Cup Makes...
Morocco asked the African football association CAF to postpone its holding of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. Morocco’s main and only argument is that such event cannot take place amid a major Ebola...
View ArticleAlgeria Ends Highway Construction Contract with Group of Japanese Firms
The North Africa Journal | The Algerian government announced that it has ended its contract with a group of Japanese companies formed to build a lengthy section of the Algerian east-west motorway.
View ArticleMoroccan Government Less Stressed about 2014 Economic Performance
The Moroccan government has had many battles to wage on the economic front, and the Premiership of Benkirane was at risk because of it. Weak finances, decreasing exports to traditional markets, a...
View ArticleThe Thorny Issue of Algeria’s Solid Waste Treatment
The French waste management firm Suez Environnement is currently seeking fresh opportunities to enter the Algeria solid waste treatment market. The firm has recently dispatched some of its senior...
View ArticleIslamic State (IS) Preparing a North Africa-Sahel Offensive. Displacement of...
The North Africa Journal: ISIS/ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or simply IS) is currently building up a pretty dense presence of combatants, leaders, and sympathizers in North Africa and in...
View ArticleAlgeria: Police Demonstration is Symptom of Vacant Leadership
Competition between Arab and Berber tribes for jobs and land often ends in violent confrontations in Ghardaia. Ghardaia is situated in the center of Algeria in the Sahara desert. On October 12, tribal...
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