A militia leader aligned with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Wednesday was targeted by UN and US sanctions for attacking oil facilities in Eastern Libya, in June. Ibrahim Jadhran’s forces attacked Ras Lanuf and al-Sidra oil export terminals last June. The terminals were under the control of eastern Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar’s forces. […]
International media watchdogs criticized Algeria’s repressive measures to intimidate journalists and demanded the immediate release of journalist and fixer Saïd Chitour who has been held in pretrial detention on allegations of spying for over a month. Reporters without Borders (RSF) released a statement denouncing as “excessive” the pretrial detention of Chitour, and expressing concern over […]
The Chilean Senate has extended unanimous support to the Autonomy Initiative for the Sahara, put forward by Morocco in 2007 to resolve the dispute over its southern provinces. The Chilean Senate unanimously adopted a resolution in which it “expresses its support for the Moroccan initiative to negotiate an autonomy statute for the Sahara region, which […]
