Sep 14, 2020 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
The virtually simultaneous removal of consumer subsidies on petrol and electricity prices is a radical departure from virtually everything that President Muhammadu Buhari has, for many years, stood for. It is therefore being seen as an indication of the emergence of...
Sep 14, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
Despite the ongoing summer power cuts and the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, the ultra-conservative Madkhali Salafist groups have maintained and even expanded their campaign against Sufi believers and their holy sites in those areas of eastern Libya under the control...
Sep 11, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Algeria’s President Abdelmajid Tebboune and his government are currently being embarrassed by revelations of the colossal fortune fraudulently accumulated by the late Army Chief of Staff, General Ahmed Gaïd Salah, (d. 23.12.19) and his family. Menas Associates’ own...
Aug 27, 2020 | Menas Associates, Nigeria
Almost two decades after comprehensive reforms of the Nigerian oil industry were first mooted, political insiders say there is a strong chance the National Assembly will pass a new consolidated draft of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the near future. ...
Aug 25, 2020 | Iran, Menas Associates
Is Iranian society ready to revolt against poverty, injustice, and political repression? For decades, US administrations have hoped that a popular uprising will lead to the collapse of the Islamic Republic. Over the past two years, Iranian adversaries Saudi...
Aug 25, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
On 21 August, following weeks of intense international pressure, Prime Minister Fayez Serraj of the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), and Aguila Saleh, speaker of the eastern-based House of Representatives (HoR), simultaneously proclaimed...
