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DRC: Death sentence upheld for eight soldiers indicted for killing two Chinese nationals

A military court in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) confirmed the death sentence pressed against eight soldiers including two top commanders for the killing of two Chinese nationals in March this year, in Irumu territory, Ituri, northeast of the central African country. The ruling was announced by the military court of the Ituri after the […]

SDX Energy Abandons Gas Well in Northwestern Morocco

UK-based SDX Energy has decided to abandon the ELQ-1 well in the Gharb Center permit, northwestern Morocco, after failing to achieve desired results from a drilling campaign. Drilled to a total depth of 1,484m, the well has encountered 22.6 net meters of reservoir interval and two meters of marginal net conventional gas pay in the […]

Morocco’s education law stalls due to controversy over French

Parliamentary vote for a long-awaited for law on education reform has stalled once again as the majority Islamist party refuses to vote in favor of some of the provisions of the new text notably the introduction of French as a language of teaching scientific subjects. The education Minister Said Amzazi insists on using French as […]