Jan 22, 2020 | Iran, Menas Associates
On 14 January the E3 — Germany, France, and the UK — invoked the dispute resolution mechanism (DRM) within the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), citing Iranian violations of the agreement. Even though a decision had been taken in November to resort to...
Jan 22, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
The presence in Berlin of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump’s National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien may be a sign of greater US engagement on Libya which is no doubt motivated by Russian and Turkish muscle-flexing. Washington has reportedly been...
Jan 22, 2020 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said that that the new Ametokun security force established by the Southwest’s six governors is illegal (Nigeria Politics & Security – 13.01.20). He insisted that the constitution does not...
Jan 22, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Surprisingly, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has not appointed a single Minister for the Economy. This means that ten members of the new government share the main economic files in facing the country’s currently alarming financial situation. The ten and their profiles...
Jan 22, 2020 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Domestic Policy & Politics With his All Progressives Congress (APC) controllingboth the House of Representatives and the Senate, and ready to back a US$35 billion budget and another US$30 billion in local and international borrowing, President Muhammadu Buhari...
Jan 22, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
Domestic Politics & Policy Even if the Berlin process culminates in a conference in mid-January 2020 — that unites domestic and international policy behind a single framework for political reunification — it is unlikely that Libyan government institutions will...
