12 October, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Algeria is in an effective state of undeclared martial law. The country’s most powerful body is the Haut Conseil de Sécurité (HCS). It is only supposed to intervene when the country is threatened by: an insecurity crisis; a threat of foreign aggression; or major...
11 October, 2021 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Bola Ahmed Tinubu — national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and would-be successor to President Muhammadu Buhari — quietly returned to Nigeria on 8 October after a three-month sojourn in the UK where he was being treated for unknown health...
11 October, 2021 | Libya, Menas Associates
On 3 October the House of Representatives (House) announced that it had passed a law to govern the parliamentary elections which were originally expected to take place simultaneously alongside presidential elections on 24 December. The full text was not made public,...
29 September, 2021 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Alone among the leaders of Africa’s big economies, President Muhammadu Buhari attended the UN General Assembly in person, in the week starting 19 September. It was Nigeria’s opening shot in a sequence of economic and political summits taking place between now and the...
28 September, 2021 | Chad, Menas Associates, Sahara
General Mahamat Déby — son of the late President Idriss Déby, and head of the Conseil militaire de Transition (CMT) which took over the country after his father was assassinated in April — clearly believes that Chad is threatened from almost all sides and possibly...
24 September, 2021 | Iran, Menas Associates
Ali Bagheri Kani is Iran’s new deputy foreign minister for political affairs. He is a former diplomat and was deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) from 2007 to 2013 under hardliner Saeed Jalili. He is closely affiliated with the...
