Egyptian, Russian navies carrying out Friendship Bridge 3 drills in Black Sea

The naval vessels and units participating in the drill departed from Alexandria Naval Base in formation on their way to the Black Sea

A number of Egyptian naval vessels participating in the Egyptian-Russian maritime drill dubbed Friendship Bridge 3 have crossed the Dardanelles and Bosporus straits on their way to the Black Sea, the Egyptian Armed Forces said on Monday.

The Libyan Oil Industry’s Story of Recovery – And What it Means for the Rest of Africa

When the African Energy Chamber (AEC) started drawing up our 2021 Africa Energy Outlook, which was released on Nov. 10, Libya’s oil industry was still struggling in the face of persistent civil conflict.

If I called 2020 a terrible year for the oil industry, no one would take exception. Demand collapsed in the spring, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has yet to recover fully. Prices then collapsed in April as OPEC and Russia walked away from production curbs and flooded the market with crude that no one wanted or needed, and once again, they have yet to regain all of the ground they have lost.

Showdown in the Western Sahara

Presently, the Polisario Front appears to be trying to create “facts on the ground” outside of any legal framework, presumably in the hope that the international community will view them as irreversible.

International help would be greatly appreciated to prevent this showdown in the Sahara from escalating further.

Mali : El Hadj Alou Badara Haïdara, directeur d’Aujourd’hui-Mali : “Mes relations avec ATT étaient devenues familiales”

Le Vieux est parti !” C’est par ces quelques syllabes que mon frère et ami Mohamed Kéïta (gendre d’ATT) m’a appris le décès brutal de l’ancien président de la République, Amadou Toumani Touré, dans la nuit du lundi à mardi aux environs de 3 h 32. Au premier abord, j’ai compris qu’il s’agissait bien de la disparition de celui que j’ai toujours considéré comme mon père puisque je savais qu’il était parti en Turquie, la veille, pour des examens complémentaires après avoir subi avec succès une opération du cœur à l’Hôpital Mère-Enfant “Le Luxembourg”, quelques jours avant.

Western Saharan Polisario says Morocco has ‘ignited war’

The Polisario movement seeking independence for Western Sahara said on Friday that Morocco has broken the 1991 ceasefire between them and had “begun the battle and ignited the war”.

Morocco earlier on Friday said it would clear Polisario supporters from the main highway linking the desert territory to Mauritania.

Tensions flare in Western Sahara as pro-independents Polisario accuse Morocco of ending ceasefire

The pro-independence Polisario Front declared a three-decade-old ceasefire in disputed Western Sahara was over on Friday after Morocco launched an operation to reopen the road to neighbouring Mauritania.

Rabat said its troops would “put a stop to the blockade” of trucks travelling between Moroccan-controlled areas of the disputed territory and neighbouring Mauritania, and “restore free circulation of civilian and commercial traffic”.