collapsing oil prices

Morocco needs to have its own refining capacity

Morocco’s only refinery has been idle since 2015 over unpaid taxes and legal hurdles, leaving the country prey to dependence on refined oil imports and fluctuations in the international markets. Calls for reactivating the idle Samir refinery in Mohammedia become more acute as fuel prices more than doubled compared to last year, due to a […]

Mali: UN Security Council expressed satisfaction over new transitional authorities establishment

Second UN speech in New York about Mali since the August 18 coup d’état. While the Security Council had been quite aloof the first time, aligned with ECOWAS’s demands, it was unanimously more encouraging this time. In its presidential statement, a statement of the utmost importance by UN standards, the Security Council first of all […]

Libya: NGOs accused of aiding illegal migration

The Libyan navy has claimed that the country’s sovereignty is being jeopardized by international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) that are helping illegal migrants trying to reach Europe through Italy from the Libyan shores. Spokesman Ayoub Qassim of the Libyan navy pointed out that “the humanitarian NGOs are blocking any agreements that help Libya uproot immigration issues; […]