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Libya plans to increase its natural gas production to 4 billion cubic feet per day within the next three to five years, Oil and Gas Minister Khalifa Rajab Abdulsadek said. Speaking at a forum in Bangkok Tuesday, Abdulsadek said Libya had significant opportunities to expand production using already discovered associated and non-associated natural gas resources. […]
Algerian authorities have sentenced rapper Zakaria Kara Slimane, known professionally as ZD4, to one year in prison over a song that called for closer ties between the Algerian and Moroccan peoples and highlighted their shared social hardships. Police in Tlemcen arrested him on 28 August 2026. The following day the Tlemcen Court tried him under […]
J.P. Morgan has placed Morocco among the core countries set to receive some of the highest weightings in its new GBI-EM Edge index, which tracks local-currency sovereign bonds across 26 frontier market economies. The international financial services firm will launch by end of September its “Government Bond–Emerging Market Index” (GBI-EM) covering almost $ 330 billion […]
Moroccan security services have arrested a 28-year-old Danish national of Israeli origin in Tangier who is considered one of the most wanted individuals in Denmark and the broader Scandinavian region. The operation, carried out on Saturday 12 September by officers from the Tangier prefecture of national security on the basis of precise intelligence provided by […]
Mauritania’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday Iran’s ambassador in protest over his actions and movements inconsistent with diplomatic norms and traditions. The Mauritanian protest comes following the ambassador’s visit to a village in the Trarza region without informing the local authorities. Three individuals were detained for hosting the Iranian diplomat. In a press release, the […]
Libya generated about $15.2 billion from its oil and gas sector during the first eight months of 2026, according to data released by the Ministry of Oil and Gas. The revenues, covering January 1 to August 31, 2026, included approximately $11.9 billion from crude oil exports and $2.4 billion from oil-related taxes and royalties. Another […]
Algeria’s ministry of Defense, which spends billions of U.S. dollars on the purchase of military equipment, has failed to protect sensitive data of its army, including the personnel information of Algerian senior officers, soldiers, their assignments, military bases and installations In 2025, Algeria spent over $25.4 Billion on its military, the highest in Africa and […]
Algeria’s decision this week to cut diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates has once again highlighted Algiers’ deepening tilt toward Iran and its regional proxies, including Hezbollah, at the expense of broader Arab consensus. Algeria cut ties with Abu Dhabi over vaguely defined “provocative or hostile” actions in a move that fits a familiar […]
Morocco’s national karate team won a total of 26 medals (five gold, 14 silver and seven bronze), finishing0 third in the final standings of the African Karate Championship, which concluded Sunday evening in Algeria. The national team added to its medal tally on the fourth and final day of the championship, winning a gold medal […]
A total of 76 surgeons and operating-room nurses have completed Morocco’s first university program dedicated to robotic surgery, with the Mohammed VI Interventional Simulation and Robotic Surgery School (M6-ISRSS) in Casablanca marking the end of its inaugural year at a ceremony held over the weekend. The program, launched in January at Mohammed VI University of […]