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Libya: US pledges financial support for GNA to tackle insecurity

The United States Tuesday promised to prop up the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli with $500,000, earmarked to improve security in the oil-rich country that has descended into lawlessness. The US pledge was made by US ambassador to Libya Peter Bodde and AFRICOM Commander Gen. Thomas Waldhauser during meetings with GNA leader […]

Tunisia: Government Pressures Military Court to Dismantle Islamist Party

The Tunisian government has called on the military court to suspend the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir party, deemed radical and a threat to security in the North African country, an official told media on Wednesday. President Caid Essebsi last week went public and asked for banning the party after it threatened “to cut heads and hands […]

Noble Energy makes oil discovery off Equatorial Guinea

Noble Energy has made a new discovery in Block 1 offshore Equatorial Guinea, with the US company expecting to produce new oil by October, the oil minister said on Tuesday.   According to Gabriel Obiang Lima, minister of hydrocarbons and mines, the government is excited to announce the discovery, “which could not have come at […]