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Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC announced it has hired a firm owned by former militant Tompolo, whose movement’s attacks on facilities in the early 2000s crippled oil production, to protect installations and tackle rampant theft. It was one of five security contracts awarded as theft and pipeline sabotage have cut Nigeria’s oil exports by nearly […]
The International Organization for Migration (IMO) confirmed that it has saved 1000 Sub-Saharan migrants abandoned by Algerian authorities in the desert in harsh conditions. Radio France Internationale reported that IMO continues to save migrants in Algeria’s desert border while Algerian authorities are conducting a manhunt for migrants with the arrest of hundreds of Sub-Saharans who […]
Morocco has been re-elected to the Council of the London-based International Maritime Organization (OMI), in a vote that confirms Morocco’s standing within the organization and the trust it enjoys among other member states. This is Morocco’s fourth re-election for a two-year mandate since the country first made it to the council of the OMI in […]