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U.S. Mulls Setting Up Spy Drone Base in Northwest Africa

The Pentagon is planning a drone base in northwest Africa to counter the growing terror threat posed by the Islamist extremists linked to Al Qaeda, says the New York Times on its web site. The base will be most probably established in Niger or Burkina Faso, sharing borders with Mali where French and Malian troops […]

Morocco, Egypt discus Libyan political solution

Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita held talks with his Egyptian peer Sameh Shokry on the situation in Libya and the latest efforts to push for a political solution. This came as Morocco hosts talks in Bouznika, bringing together representatives of the Tobrouk-based Libyan parliament and the Libyan High Council of state, with the first representing […]

Algeria further undermines its market share in Spain’s gas market

When Algeria halted its biggest gas pipeline with Spain in late 2021, decision-makers in Madrid knew that Algiers’ reliability as an energy supplier was called into question. In a series of self-defeating measures, Algeria has announced a technical problem in the small Medgaz pipeline, effectively halting all exports to Spain and further pushing the country […]