Aug 21, 2019 | Menas Associates
German Ambassador Dietrich Becker’s long overdue outspoken warning not to invest in Mali because of its corruption might persuade other international partners to take a tougher line with the Malian government and make it realise that it is its own worst enemy. As it...
Aug 21, 2019 | Iran, Menas Associates
Hossein Salami, the new commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps It’s no secret that Washington’s current antagonism towards Iran — along with its unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — has empowered harder-line elements...
Aug 21, 2019 | Algeria, Menas Associates
In spite of distractions from Eid el-Adha and the summer holidays, both the 9 August mass demonstration and the weekly student demonstration of 13 August have sent powerful messages to the regime and to Algeria as a whole. The mere fact that they took place — in a...
Aug 7, 2019 | Menas Associates
Menas Associates has recently produced the Africa Oil & Gas Outlook Report 2019 for Africa Oil Week — the continent’s largest and most important annual oil conference — which will be held in Cape Town on 4-8 November. You can download the report here. The report...
Aug 7, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
Ghassan Salame briefs UNSC on Libya’s current crisis There has been a drastic shift in the demeanour of UN Special Envoy Ghassan Salamé in the last few weeks. The stoic diplomat — who has survived terrorist attacks in Baghdad in 2003 and Beirut in 2005 — has...
Aug 7, 2019 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Five months after his re-election, President Muhammadu Buhari sent a list of 43 ministerial nominees to the Senate which has since approved them Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari sent a list of 43 ministerial appointees to the Senate on 23 July containing...
