Fifteen Ministerial delegates representing both northern and southern Mediterranean countries have signed on Thursday a flagship Declaration whereby they make a 10-year pledge to save the Mediterranean fish stocks and protect the region’s ecological and economic wealth. The text, dubbed Malta MedFish4Ever Declaration, crowns months of negotiations that started in Catania, Sicily in February 2016, […]
Tunisia’s defense ministry indicated Tuesday two of its soldiers died after a landmine exploded near the Algerian border. “Two soldiers died, one last night and the second early this morning, after they were injured in a landmine explosion in Mount Mghila on Monday,” the ministry’s spokesman Belhassen Oueslati told the media. The ministry did not […]
Last year’s discovery off the shores of Namibia of an estimated 11 billion barrels of crude holds the promise of untold riches for this nation of 2.7 million people, but capitalizing on the bounty while avoiding the ills that afflict resource-rich countries in Africa — a phenomenon known as ‘resource curse’ — may prove challenging. […]
