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Flashpoint: Geopolitics Simplified by Arezki Daoud
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Audio podcast: Sahel collapsing with the Jihadists, Russia and France in a bitter fight over controlIn this audio podcast, Arezki Daoud is sharing an update on the situation in the Sahel, specifically in Mali and Burkina Faso, two countries that have been torn apart by outside fo…
North Africa / Sahel Week in Review: Mali and Tunisia remain center stageWelcome to this week-in-review episode where we look at some of the key events affecting the geopolitics of North Africa and the Sahel. Your host in Arezki Daoud, principal analy…
- Instability and Coups in Sahel Nations
In this brief episode, Arezki Daoud reports on the latest attempts to topple regimes in the Sahel and that more of there are expected.
Sahel and North Africa week in review 7 Jan 2023Greetings to our second episode of Week in Review and a quick summary of what we are tracking in the Sahel and in North Africa. Today is Saturday, the 7th of January 2023. This pas…
The Sahel and North Africa this week: Mali-Ivory Coast crisis, Burkina vs. the UN, terrorism in Egypt, rivalry in Libya and more. Week ended 30 Dec. 2022In this week's review of events in the Sahel and North Africa, Arezki Daoud addresses the major factors affecting the region as the year draws to an end.
North Africa - Sahel week in review 1 - Week ending 23 December 2022This podcast hosted by Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk LLC focuses on some of the most important events in North Africa and the Sahel that we are monitoring as of Friday, 23rd of December…
Can Algeria and Africa deliver more natural gas to EuropeWinter is near and Europe is facing an energy crisis after Russian attacked Ukraine. The EU and its member-countries have been looking for natural gas everywhere they can but the…
- Food shortages in Tunisia: brief explainer.
Arezki Daoud of MEA Risk and The North Africa Journal visits Tunisia this November and is bringing better understanding on the challenges facing the Tunisians in their day-to-day l…
Russia's War on Ukraine: North African Nations' PositionsThe Maghreb’s biggest nations and regional rivals, Algeria, and Morocco, so far have refrained from choosing a side in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. For its part, Tunisia has h…
Algeria-Russia: Deconstructing Algeria’s relationship with Russia: Not as rosy as you thinkThe visit of President Emmanuel Macron to Algiers at the end of August shook up and challenged the Algerian authorities in their once again excellent relations with Russia. The F…
Podcast: Lebanon FallingThe past months have been particularly horrendous for Lebanon, a country that used to be called the Switzerland of the Arab World. The demise of Lebanon is not only a reflection of…
Sahel: Burkina Faso’s security environment to worsen as Jihadi attacks likely to intensifyThe Sahelian nation of Burkina Faso has been a powder keg for some time and this weekend, the coup leader that toppled the previous government has been himself toppled by another…
The escalating rivalry between Algeria and MoroccoThe escalating rivalry between Algeria and Morocco has had a destabilizing effect on the Maghreb region of North Africa. In fact, the entire western Mediterranean region is feeli…
The Sahel in turmoil: How Bamako and Paris lost most of Mali's territoryThe year 2021 was a horrendous period for the region. All the problems that one can imagine were there, from the massacre of civilians to two military coups in Mali and of course,…
Tunisia Revisited in 10 minutes: A MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud reviews of TunisiaTunisia Revisited: MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud reviews where Tunisia stands as of November 2021 in the areas of social and economic development.
Understanding Tunisia's political crisis in ten minutes, by Arezki DaoudThere has been unusual interest in the west about the political crisis engulfing Tunisia this week. Naturally Tunisia was always seen the cradle of the Jasmin Revolution, and the…
How governments in northern Africa are left with only repression as they are unable to governThis week (ending 21 January 2021), Tunisia made the front pages of global media with Tunisians clashing with security forces over the past days to complain about their living cond…
Tunisia faces a chaotic situation: Economic woes could bring back to power extremist politiciansTunisia is a boiling cauldron. It is certain that the Covid-19 epidemic is having a drastic impact on the country on many fronts. But the system put in place after the 2011 Jasmin…
NGOs in the Sahel: Operating in an increasingly challenging environment.In this episode, Arezki Daoud discusses with Do Christophe Ouattar of World Neighbors (http://WN.org) how NGOs are operating in the Sahel. Topics include coping with growing insecu…
Covid-19 in the Maghreb region as of mid-November 2020In this brief podcast recorded on 12 November 2020, MEA Risk's Arezki Daoud provided an update on the Coronavirus in the Maghreb region. The state of the Covid-19 epidemic in the M…
