Oct 16, 2019 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
The new era of collaboration between the Presidency and the National Assembly is already yielding results with the possible early consideration and passage of President Muhammadu Buhari’s expenditure plans for 2020. He has presented the government’s...
Oct 16, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
There is increased international concern that Islamic State (IS) could use the current security vacuum — caused by the US departure from northern Syria and subsequent confrontation between Kurdish forces and the Turkish military — to re-gain lost prestige in its...
Oct 16, 2019 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The World Bank’s 9 October report on Algeria expects the current political crisis to slow economic growth in both the hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon sectors. It now foresees GDP growth being reduced to 1.3% in 2019 compared to 1.5% last year. The arrest and...
Oct 1, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
There has been speculation that Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) alliance of militias have sought to mislead his opponents and the international community into thinking that Russia is providing more support for his Tripoli campaign than it...
Oct 1, 2019 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Timipre Sylva — the new minister of state (or deputy minister) at the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) — has taken on his responsibilities at a time when Nigeria wants to boost production and revenues against a backdrop of heightened oil market uncertainty. In...
Oct 1, 2019 | Menas Associates, Morocco
King Mohamed VI’s 20 September meeting with Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani is a clear indication that the Palace is getting impatient with the lack of progress in forming a new government. This impatience is shared with the other political parties who accuse...
