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Muhammad Husain, the director of state own oil Indonesian company, PT Pertamina, has announced the company will be exploiting oil from Algeria in the next few months. This could allow the company to increase its reserve by 100 million barrels per day and additional crude oil output of 23,000 barrels per day. Negotiations are still […]
Qatar will be sending five shipments of liquefied to Egypt as a donation in order to help it reduce the constraints on its industrial sector. The delivery is expected between July and September. The statement which was released by Qatar’s Energy and Industry Minister Mohamed al-Sada didn’t precise the quantity. Egypt’s natural gas shortage is […]
While the French newspaper Le Figaro was reporting lengthily on the arrest of an opponent to the wedding for everyone, a 23 years old student “still dressed in his hooded Manif for everyone sweatshirt”, the daily missed the 2 millions people who were marching against Monsanto. And so did almost all other French Medias. Commonly […]
Essam al-Haddad, the closest aide to Mohamed Morsi, has lambasted the IMF for worsening Egypt’s situation. He claimed Egypt has satisfied all the required conditions but the IMF continues to delay the deal. He said the government in a bid to finalize the $4,8 billion loan deal has recently included a phased-out subsidies plan and […]
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton has described Morocco as “a key partner of the European Union” and hailed the constructive role played by the North African nation on the international scene “to resolve instability in the Sahel and in Syria”. Ashton, who met lately in Brussels with Moroccan […]
Official negotiations are underway today between the Malian state and the Touareg rebellion of the “National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)”. The negotiations are to be held under the auspices of Burkina Faso with the main objective of resolving the case of the city of Kidal, which has been under the control of […]
Egypt is not ruling out military options to halt the construction of a dam on the Blue River Nile by Ethiopia. The Nile is being diverted 500 meters from its natural course for the construction of a hydroelectric plant, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, worth $4,2billion and capable of producing 6,000 megawatts at full capacity. Egypt […]
Ethiopia’s project to construct the Grand Renaissance Dam, a $4.2 billion hydroelectric project that will divert the Blue Nile from its natural course, has flared up passions downstream in Egypt. Although some experts deem that Ethiopia’s move is largely technical and will not alter the water flow that is vital for both downstream states, Egypt […]
Three important state firms will have their headquarters moved from Tripoli to Benghazi in the drive to give the eastern city more authority. According to a government decree, Libyan Airlines, Libyan Insurance Company and the National Investment Company, as well as the Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation (NOC), will be transferred. The decree has to be […]
As a process of tightening the bilateral relationship between Turkey and North African countries, and more precisely the Maghreb region, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is currently on a visit from June 3rd to June 6th to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Erdoğan plans to meet the heads of state or heads of government […]