The US defence department announced Thursday they repatriated a Mauritanian national who had been held at the US notorious prison of Guantanamo for 13 years. Although the former detainee, Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, was cleared in 2010, he was kept in detention after he protested against mistreatment. “The United States coordinated with the Government of […]
Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar on Friday announced lifting the blockade on oil production and its export. Hours after the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC), in a statement, objected to “the politicization of the oil sector and its use as a bargaining chip for political gains,” Haftar announced in a televised speech the lifting of […]
Talks between Egypt and Ethiopia on sharing the Nile water have hit a dead-end as both parties trade accusations. As Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, the largest in Africa, nears its completion, Egypt protested that the installation may block its share of Nile water, which secures more than 90% of the water supply in the arid country. […]
