Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) research on COVID-19

Nigeria plans to renovate refineries, cut fuel imports

Nigeria’s state-oil firm NNPC plans to revamp its refineries to help Africa’s biggest crude oil producer to save billions of dollars on fuel imports. Despite controlling the world’s 10th-largest oil reserves, Nigeria has only four aging, inefficient state-owned refineries, leaving it almost wholly reliant on imports for its fuel needs. Italy’s Maire Tecnimont won a […]

Hezbollah Alliance with Polisario Embarrasses Algeria

Morocco cut ties with Iran over its connivance in helping Hezbollah arm and train the Polisario. The news put Algeria in such a big embarrassment that its foreign ministry summoned Morocco’s Ambassador in Algiers to protest. “Morocco understands Algeria’s embarrassment and its need to express solidarity with its allies, Hezbollah, Iran and the Polisario as […]

Libya Protests Greece’s EEZ Claim South of Crete, Citing Sovereignty Breach

The Libyan government in Tripoli has formally protested to the United Nations over Greece’s delineation of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) south of Crete, arguing that the map infringes on Libyan maritime boundaries. The EEZ map, published in the EU’s Official Journal over the weekend, is said by Libya to be a breach of its […]