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Plans are underway for Algeria, Libya and Egypt to replace 50% of Russia’s Gazprom natural gas supply to Europe. Italy’s largest utility, Enel SpA, hopes that the development efforts that are ongoing in oil and gas sectors of these North African countries, especially in Algeria, will ease the process. Europe is seeking to reduce its […]
Libya’s newly appointed foreign Minister, Mohamed Dayri, who assumed his post at the end of last month has said that the Tobruk based government wants a “settlement” deal with the government and parliament in Tripoli in order to from a unity government that will end Libya’s chaos. He doesn’t think that there is a possibility […]
The governments of several countries namely Algeria, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States together with the European Union and United Nations have released a joint statement calling for an end to the violence in Libya in order to pave the way for development and […]
Morocco should be advising the West right now on how to go about breaking IS while we all wait for its appalling acts of terror to come to the Maghreb The news which has even reached as far as Lebanon that Morocco is cracking down on its extremists who, despite doing the kingdom a great […]
U.S marines have been deployed to southern Italy due to “the general unrest in Northern Africa”, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren stated. The decision to move 200 marines from Spain to Italy is seen as a “prudent measure” to avoid a repeat of the scenario which led to the killing of Christopher Stevens while serving […]
Last Friday (March 7) saw hundreds of Libyans marching in the streets of Benghazi to call for security – only one day after the international community gathered in Rome to discuss the security in Libya to find ways to forestall its further descent to lawlessness. The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, said that the situation […]
Amid deep political turmoil, there is a mounting concern in Egypt as Ethiopia forges ahead with its plan to build the $4.8 billion Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile’s main tributary. The hydroelectric dam, to be Africa’s biggest, sounded the alarm bell for Egypt due to its possible impact on the flow of the river. […]
European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (20 January) agreed to dispatch a battalion-sized force counting up to 1,000 soldiers to Central African Republic (CAR) to help to stabilize the war-torn African country. Being effectively the EU’s first major army operation in six years, the intervention by the 28-nation bloc comes after UN […]
Algeria and France have intensified their cooperation at the end of French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault’s and nine ministers visit to the country by signing 9 partnership agreements. Much of the agreements were focused on economic and trade activities as France position as the biggest investor in Algeria comes under pressure from Chinese investments. Jean-Marc […]
A new fisheries agreement between the European Union and Morocco has finally been approved on Tuesday by the European Parliament after two years of long and arduous negotiations. The new four year fisheries agreement, approved at a plenary session by 310 votes to 204, with 49 abstentions, will allow fishing vessels from 11 EU countries, […]