Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC announced it has hired a firm owned by former militant Tompolo, whose movement’s attacks on facilities in the early 2000s crippled oil production, to protect installations and tackle rampant theft. It was one of five security contracts awarded as theft and pipeline sabotage have cut Nigeria’s oil exports by nearly […]
Tripoli international airport has become the center of interest of different rebel groups in Libya. The airport is controlled by the rebels from Zintan but the Islamists and fighters from Misrata want to take it over from them. The Zintan rebels are being accused of backing the liberalists in the Libyan parliament. The clashes have […]
For extending its political term which expired on February 7, Libya’s members of parliament have received threats from two powerful Libyan militia groups if they refuse to step down. In a televised joint statement, the al-Qaaqaa and al-Sawaaq militias called on the parliament to hand over power by 9 p.m. in order to avoid detention. […]
