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Namibia eyes OPEC membership as large-scale oil production looms

Namibia has announced its plan to join the OPEC “family” which comes at a time when the southern African nation gears up to potentially become the continent’s fourth-largest oil producer by the next decade. If exploitation of its giant offshore oil and gas discoveries goes as planned, Namibia could turn into a significant oil producer, […]

Libya: UN blasts EU-backed anti-migration plan over gross human rights abuses

The UN Tuesday lambasted in a report the EU-backed plan meant to fight illegal migration in Libya over the inhuman conditions prevailing in the camps where the migrants are stranded. The European Union led by Italy has been supporting Libyan authorities to stem the illegal trafficking of humans on the Mediterranean. Libyan coastguards have been […]

Hamid Chabat: from union activist to leader of Morocco’s Istiqlal

Hamid Chabat, a former factory worker and mechanic , has been elected Secretary General of the Istiqlal party, one of the most powerful political parties in Morocco. Nothing  predestined this man, who started his career at the bottom of the ladder, to this spectacular rise except his boundless ambition that he started to kindle since […]