Oct 13, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
Four American and an uncertain number of Nigérien soldiers were killed in an ambush in Nigér on 4 October. According to the authorities, reporting immediately after the attack, five Nigérien soldiers were killed. Some later reports put the number at four, while a...
Sep 14, 2017 | Menas Associates, Sahara
An even bigger problem for France and its Western allies could conceivably be as Russia moves in on Mali. The prospect of Russian intervention in the Sahel was first raised in October 2016 (See France, the US, Germany, and Russia stake claims in western Sahara) when...
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...
