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Algeria’s Tebboune indulges in ‘alternative facts’

The civilian façade of Algeria’s military regime, President Abdelmedjid Tebboune indulged in a new series of alternative facts during an interview with French paper L’Opinion, during which he practices Algeria’s favourite sports: conspiracy theories, blame shifting and fake news. Amid a brewing crisis with France, Tebboune mired himself in contradiction saying that Algeria will admit […]

Morocco: Tanger-Med Police foil psychotropic trafficking

Moroccan security services foiled on Saturday morning at Tanger-Med Port an international drugs and psychotropic substances trafficking attempt, seizing 155,703 Ecstasy tablets concealed in an international transport truck coming from a European country, the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) said in a press release. According to initial findings of the investigation, border control and […]

Mauritania: Kosmos discovers gas field, LNG considered

Dallas-based Kosmos Energy’s oil search in Mauritania once again led to the discovery of an offshore gas reservoir in a well located 60km north of the Tortue-1 gas discovery that opened the basin. The latest discovered field, described as “a large gas resource,” is preliminary estimated to have 5 trillion cubic feet of gross resources […]