Calls were made at a two-day Libyan energy forum held in Tunis on 20-21 October for a return of an oil ministry and for the national electricity company GECOL to be split into three separate companies covering transportation, generation and distribution. There were also calls for the authorities to open the door to greater private sector involvement in both the oil and electricity industries.
In Sweden, crucial societal issues, such as who is behind the current crime epidemic, are a public taboo.
A German NGO said one of its vessels was threatened Saturday by a boat carrying Libyan militants who fired warning shots as it rescued 90 migrants in the Mediterranean.
Le nouveau président Kaïs Saïed a prêté serment, mercredi 23 octobre, devant l’Assemblée. Son discours d’investiture a été certes rassurant, mais n’a pas permis d’en savoir plus sur ses orientations, ni de dissiper les inquiétudes engendrées par les thèmes développés au cours de sa campagne.
Following several years of inactivity, the al Qaeda-linked Jamaat al Ansar al Muslimeen fi Bilad al Sudan, better known as Ansaru, has reappeared online.
The headscarf is, of course, just a symptom of a deeper problem: many perceive it as the symbol of an invasion by an outside culture into the public sphere.
Ouverture réussie pour le premier sommet Russie-Afrique organisé par Vladimir Poutine et co-présidé par le président en exercice de l’Union africaine (UA), Abdel Fattah al-Sissi. Les dirigeants africains ont répondu à l’appel de Sotchi et, en ce premier jour surtout consacré à la coopération économique, promesses, serments d’amitié et contrats se sont multipliés.
Les chefs militaires des pays de l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) vont se réunir en novembre afin de projeter fin 2019 ou début 2020 des troupes au Mali, Burkina Faso et Niger pour lutter contre les groupes jihadistes, a annoncé mercredi le ministre ivoirien de la Défense, Hamed Bakayoko.
The launch of Turkey’s military incursion into northern Syria on Oct. 9 represents an existential threat for the Autonomous Administration in Northeast Syria (AANES) and Kurdish parties in Syria as a whole, prompting Kurdish political factions, both within Syria and abroad, to reevaluate their survival strategies and alliances. This report explores the various political factions within the Kurdish coalitions in Syria as they functioned under the AANES and the major rifts between them. Even under these dire circumstances Kurdish political factions in Syria have responded to the Turkish invasion independently.
When more than one million people in Lebanon took to the streets on Feb. 14, 2005 to call for the ouster of Syria’s forces from the country, very few expected them to accomplish their goal. After all, Syria had been ruling Lebanon with an iron fist since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war.