Morocco-EU tensions rise over aluminium wheel duties
Mustapha Baitas, government spokesperson for Morocco, has commented on the EU decision to impose duties on imports of aluminium road...
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Morocco-EU aluminium duties dispute
Moroccan government spokesperson Mustapha Baitas announced on March 20 that Morocco will take "appropriate measures" following the EU's decision to...
Mabrouk Oil Operations Company restarts production
Libya's Mabrouk Oil Operations Company has restarted production after a decade long shutdown in operations. According to The Libya Observer,...
Libyan oil field resumes production after 10 years
The Mabrouk oil field in Libya has restarted production after a decade long shutdown. According to The Libya Observer, production...
Mali: Foreign artisanal gold miners licenses suspended
Mali announced it will suspend licenses for foreign artisanal gold mining companies after a string of fatal accidents. According to...
Mali suspends gold mining for foreign companies after accidents
Mali announced it will be suspending licenses for foreign companies mining artisanal gold on March 5th, due to a series...
Tunisia: Miners demand investment in local infrastructure
Protests raged through the Tunisian city of Gafsa on 26 February, as civil society organisations and miners marched for better...
US imposes economic sanctions on Iranian oil
The US State and Treasury departments have levied a barrage of economic sanctions on 22 people and 13 ships linked...
Strike shut Tunisian mining town after road accident
Schools and businesses in one of Tunisia’s key mining towns, Om Laarayes, closed on February 20th, as part of a...
Barrick Gold signs agreement with Mali in hope to end dispute
Canadian mining company Barrick Gold has signed an agreement with the Malian government, ending an almost two-year dispute over its...
Libya’s oil monopoly broken by private firm
A little-known firm linked to eastern Libyan forces has broken the National Oil Corporation’s decades-long monopoly on oil exports, selling...
Dozens of illegal miners killed in Mali
Dozens of people, most of which were female, have been killed after the collapse of an illegal gold mine in...
One-third of Libyans living in poverty despite rise in oil revenues
Almost one-third of Libyans are living in poverty, despite the doubling of oil revenues, raising questions over the fate of...
Tunisia’s alleged recycling breakthrough already patented
Tunisia's recycling breakthrough, turning phosphate waste into paper, has been revealed to be already patented by a German company already...
Morocco-Spain undersea tunnel proposals to be assessed
A German company has been tasked with conducting a feasibility study on the visionary proposals for an undersea tunnel connecting...
