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EU to Dispatch Forces to CAR Divided by “Deep, Ingrained Hatred”

European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (20 January) agreed to dispatch a battalion-sized force counting up to 1,000 soldiers to Central African Republic (CAR) to help to stabilize the war-torn African country. Being effectively the EU’s first major army operation in six years, the intervention by the 28-nation bloc comes after UN […]

Senegal officially becomes newest oil producer

Senegal’s Sangomar oil and gas field has produced its first oil, operator Woodside Energy said, with the newly elected president Bassirou Faye promising that oil revenue will be “well managed.” Senegal also expected to start producing gas this year in the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore field which it shares with Mauritania. “This is an historic […]

Flexible Brokerage: Qatar and Moroccan Diplomatic Relations

No tiny Arab country has ever gained more diplomatic leverage than Qatar in recent North African history. Since independence, only a few Arab regional powers had an overarching and successful influence in North Africa’s politics: Jamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt and King Fahd’s Saudi Arabia were able to diplomatically twist – gently or otherwise – the […]