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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
A rubber raft crowded with at least 120 migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday. The craft was on a notoriously dangerous route for refugees trying to reach European shores.
French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda’s North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.
Un naufrage au large des côtes libyennes a fait 20 morts, quelques heures après un autre ayant fait 74 morts, a rapporté dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Les équipes de MSF dans la ville de Sorman (nord-est) ont “assisté aujourd’hui trois femmes, seules survivantes d’un autre naufrage où 20 personnes se sont noyées”, a indiqué l’ONG sur son compte Twitter.
L’Algérie a dénoncé, vendredi, de “graves violations” du cessez-le-feu au Sahara occidental et appelé à l’arrêt “immédiat” des opérations militaires après l’intervention de l’armée marocaine dans une zone de ce territoire disputé.
Le Maroc a annoncé, vendredi 13 novembre, avoir lancé une opération militaire dans la zone-tampon de Guerguerat, près de la Mauritanie, en dénonçant “les provocations du Polisario” au Sahara occidental, ancienne colonie espagnole.