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Sahel Podcast
Jeremy Keenan, Menas' Sahel expert, recently spoke at the ISOA-SCEG Stabilization and Security Conference on the political and security risks in the Sahel. From Mauritania to Sudan, Algeria to Burkina Faso, the vast Sahel covers an area that is almost as large as...
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The dismantling of Bouteflikism
Army Chief of Staff General Ahmed Gaïd Salah's moves against opposition political parties in will only inflame the tensions between the army and the large scale weekly demonstrations The move to arrest former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s powerful younger brother...
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Libya’s peace talks must include different leaders
Peace in Libya requires the inclusion of more than Khalifa Haftar and the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) As long as the international community fails to recognise how much dynamics have shifted since 4 April, the longer the war in Libya will go on....
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Emefiele secures second term in Nigeria’s central bank
Nigeria's central bank governor Godwin Emefiele has been kept on for a second five year term President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated the present governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele to serve for a second five-year term. Emefiele was first...
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South Africans head to the polls
South Africans will head to the polls on 8 May to vote in the national and provincial elections South Africans will head to the polls next week to vote during the national and provincial elections, all amid a context of increased political uncertainty for the ruling...
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Hirak Rif protests hit Rabat after Appeal Court decision
Activists from the Hirak Rif movement protesting in downtown Rabat against the marginalisation and impoverishment of the Rif region Morocco has recently been hit by another round of protests and strikes. Most worrying for the authorities was the large demonstration...
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The Mopti Region and Mali’s cycle of violence
Inter communal attacks in the Mopti Region and the lack of governance and security have led to hundreds of deaths in the last year alone The massacre of at least 160 Peul (Fulani) in the village of Ogossagou in the southern Mopti Region in late March constituted the...
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Ali Larijani: from speaker to Iran’s president?
Majles speaker Ali Larijani may be a good compromise candidate for president in 2021 Recently, Mohammad Atrianfar, one of the leading reformist thinkers in Iran mused that reformists could support the candidacy of Majles speaker Ali Larijani in the 2021 presidential...
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Nigerian Government delays taxes despite revenues challenges
Nigeria's revenue authority denies plans to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) despite the Finance Ministry's intentions to raise VAT and other taxes The Senate recently recommended that the Federal Government consider increasing taxes on luxury goods in a bid to boost...
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Economic consequences of Haftar’s assault on Tripoli
Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar's assault on Tripoli has serious, and often overlooked, economic implications The current assault on Tripoli is having immediate economic as well as security consequences. The internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA)...
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