Gulf Crisis: China calls for unity, harmony in region

Chinese President Xi Ping Thursday urged Gulf Cooperation Council members to cultivate unity and harmony as he welcomed Qatar’s ruler whose country has been embroiled in a diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, since June 2017. President Xi, welcoming the Qatari leader Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the Great Hall […]

Tunisian president stokes racism against Sub-Saharan migrants

Tunisia’s authoritarian president Kais Saied is pushing conspiracy theories to the limit. After accusing the West of trying to undermine Tunisia’s sovereignty amid an uphill battle to gain a new IMF credit line, he now changed targets to scapegoat poor Sub-Saharan migrants uttering comments that verge on abject racism. “The undeclared goal of the successive […]

Libya: Working On Long And Short Projects…

Despite reaffirming its ambitions to maintain its pre-war output levels that it has attained before the expected timeframe, Libya’s oil minister has not ruled out the delivery of a new round of oil exploration and production agreements. Oil Minister Abdelbari al-Arusi repeated that the government’s desire to attain an output of 2 million barrels per […]