Feb 15, 2021 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Over the weekend of 13-14 February the country’s escalating ethnic tensions boiled over in the Oyo State capital of Ibadan where Yoruba and Fulani youths clashed in local markets. Perhaps as many as 20 people were killed and several thousand Hausa residents were...
Feb 12, 2021 | Libya, Menas Associates
The UN-backed Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LDPF) scored a major breakthrough in Geneva in early February when it elected the heads of the country’s new transitional executive authorities. Contrary to expectations, the final list delivered a surprise result,...
Feb 12, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Today, as we go to press — after spending another month in Germany, following his two months hospitalisation there between late October and late December — there is the first news of President Abdelmajid Tebboune’s health. According to sources close to the Presidency...
Jan 28, 2021 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
For a brief moment when he announced the replacement of all four service chiefs on 26 January, it seemed that President Muhammadu Buhari was at last holding his military high command accountable for the disastrous unravelling of national security over the last five...
Jan 28, 2021 | Menas Associates, Morocco
The leadership of Morocco’s ruling Parti Justice et Développement (PJD) party is desperately trying to contain a backlash among its rank-and-file which has been prompted by Morocco’s recent normalisation of diplomatic relations with Israel. In December 2020, a...
Jan 27, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Over the past two to three months, state-owned Sonatrach has been hit by one corruption allegation after another. The fire at the El Merk oil field in October raised questions about nepotism in regard to the appointment of Yamina Hakkar, wife of Sonatrach CEO Toufik...
