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Egypt Inks $1 bln Oil & Gas Deal with Shell, Petronas

The government of Egypt last weekend signed a deep-water oil and gas exploration deal with Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas worth around $1 billion for eight wells, a statement said. The government in a separate deal of $10 million with Rockhopper, Kuwait Energy and Canada’s Dover Corporation, agreed on the exploration of the Western […]

Libya: Haftar forces free seized vessel with Turkish crew

Eastern Libyan forces, aligned with retired military General Khalifa Haftar, have released a vessel flying a Grenada flag with a Turkish crew seized few days ago amid tensions between eastern Libyan authorities and Ankara. The vessel arrested on Saturday off Libyan coast was allowed on Monday to resume its journey to Alexandria, Egypt, where it […]

Tunisia: File of sixth presidential candidate validated

On Friday August 30, Tunisia’s Administrative Court announced that it had approved an appeal from Imed Daïmi, a former advisor to President Moncef Marzouki, clearing the way for his reinstatement in the presidential race on October 6. This decision could make Daïmi the sixth candidate in the running. Although the court accepted the appeal on […]