Aug 16, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
This is an excerpt about Kosmos Energy is from an article in our monthly Sahara Focus publication. The government of the Saharawi Republic (the SADR) issued a communiqué on 16 August in response to the recently expressed plans of the Dallas-based Kosmos Energy to...
Jul 26, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
This is an excerpt from an article taken from our monthly Sahara Focus publication. Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno paid a secret visit on 11 July to France’s President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace. Journalists were only informed one hour before the meeting...
May 19, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
This is an excerpt from an article in this month’s Sahara Focus publication. Despite the military shortcomings, the fundamental problem in Mali, and the basis of its on-going crisis, is poor governance. An analysis of the public sector strikes that hit the...
Apr 21, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has received a major political rebuff at home. Having bulldozed highly controversial constitutional reforms through parliament — thanks to the support of his own party and a boycott by the opposition parties — they were...
Mar 21, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
An official statement from the Moroccan government in late February said that the Kingdom was withdrawing its troops from the Guerguerat section — in Western Sahara’s south west territory approximately 11 kilometres from the border with Mauritania — of the UN Western...
Jan 17, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
As we reported in the last issue of Sahara Focus (SF1216), the Forum on Peace and Security in Africa, held in Dakar on 5 December, ended amidst as much bitterness as there was harmony. Delegates from Niger, especially, made it very clear that the Western military...
