Malaysian oil company Petronas has started pulling back and is about to end its operation in Mauritania due to sharp fall in revenues caused by the acute collapse of oil price. The company had notified Mauritanian authorities in February that it would stop its oil exploitation. The company has started disassembling its offshore oil platform […]
Morocco and India expressed willingness to ease visa procedures notably for businessmen and tourists, Morocco’s foreign ministry said. This came during a videoconference between Morocco’s foreign minister and his Indian peer Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who expressed satisfaction at the growing ties between the two countries as evidenced by the signing of some forty agreements and memorandums […]
In a major step toward ending over a decade of conflict, two of the Central African Republic’s (CAR) most powerful rebel groups, the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC) and 3R (Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation), have officially disbanded their political and military wings under a new peace accord with the government. At a symbolic ceremony […]
