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Egypt: Debt payment delayed, Gulf oil grants over, Minister Ismail

Oil Minister Sherif Ismail has announced that the payment of Egypt’s debt to foreign oil companies will be delayed by six months thereby pushing the deadline to the end of next year after Egypt had promised to repay all its debt by mid-2016. He also said there will no longer be oil grants from the […]

Arab Summit: Moroccan, Arab press unions decry Algerian authorities decision to refuse entry to Moroccan Journalists

The National Union of the Moroccan Press (SNPM), the National Press Council (SNPM) and the National Association of Media and Editors (ANME), as well as the General Union of Arab Journalists have all denounced the harassment and the expulsion by Algerian authorities of Moroccan journalists assigned to cover Arab Summit which opens this Tuesday in […]

Serraj proposes to Haftar to name Prime Minister as transition drags feet

Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Faiez Serraj has proposed to his rival of opposed administration, Khalifa Haftar to name a transitional Prime Minister as UN-led reconciliation efforts between Libyans wane. Serraj, according to Italian newspaper la Republica, used Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte to deliver proposal to the Field Marshall. Conte, accompanied by foreign minister […]