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Algeria: Statoil & BP Pulling out Staff after Gas Plant attacks

British Oil Company BP and Norwegian Statoil announced Monday they would withdraw their staff from two Algerian gas plants after terrorists fired rockets at the third largest gas field of the country situated in the Sahara desert. The companies will withdraw their staff from the In Salah and In Amenas gas plants as security measures […]

The case for closer US-Morocco cooperation to counter Iranian influence in North Africa

Morocco stands as the only partner in North Africa with whom the new Trump administration can join forces to counter an increasing Iranian threat to destabilize the region through the supply of drones and rockets to Algeria’s Polisario proxies. Polisario mouthpieces on social media have recently displayed photos of a truck loaded with the Iranian-made […]

Somalia officially joins East African Community

Somalia has finished the process of becoming a fully-fledged member of the East African Community (EAC) after it has ratified the accession treaty to an economic bloc that has some of Africa’s rapidly growing economies. Somalia joined Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and South Sudan, as part of the exclusive […]