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Heritage Foundation: Washington counts Rabat as it resets its defense strategy & foreign policy

As the United States is resetting its defense strategy and foreign policy in North Africa and West Africa, Washington is enhancing its cooperation ties with strategically located countries like Morocco to secure its interests and promote regional security. In an analysis published by U.S. Heritage Foundation, Amine Ghoulidi, a Visiting Fellow in Heritage’s Shelby Cullom […]

Libya: UN Chief appoints Acting Special Representative

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has named deputy of his former envoy to Libya, Stephanie Turco Williams, as Acting Special Representative in Libya until appointment of a new successor to resigning Ghassan Salamé. The US UN officer has been deputy of the Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) since 2018. Before […]

Zimbabwe’s new mining royalty rule: 50% commodities and 50% cash

Miners operating in Zimbabwe will have to pay some of their royalties in refined metal rather than cash, as the country will hold reserves of gold, diamonds, platinum and lithium, says President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Zimbabwe’s president said the new policy that compels miners to pay half of their royalties in commodities and half in cash […]