Algeria’s gas production and export capacity is facing dim prospects with estimates the North African country to be a net gas importer of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in two decades, warned the former Algerian energy minister Nordine Ait-Laoussine. Ait-Laoussine, who was speaking to Interfax Natural Gas Daily, said that politics and bureaucracy are contributing to […]
Israeli media is awash with reports and analyses on an upcoming war on Iran-backed Shiaa militia Hezbollah. Buoyed by inroads in the Syrian war, Hezbollah has bolstered its regional foothold, raising fears in Israel that it may have acquired and smuggled game changing weapons into its Lebanese strongholds, and prompting Israel to carry strikes inside […]
British, Norwegian and the US embassies have expressed grave concerns about possible new fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State just a day before the planned arrival of Pope Francis on Friday (3 February) for his first visit to the conflict-torn country. The warning by the so-called Troika Embassies about the possible fresh violence has […]
