Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Sudan has reported hundreds of millions of dollars in crude oil fees from South Sudan. Sudan’s official news agency said the Khartoum regime received $236 million in oil fees from South Sudan in 2013. The agency quoted a senior official as saying that the fees covered the transportation of South […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Algeria has sought to quell ethnic battles near the southern border with Mali. Algerian sources said dozens of people have been killed in fighting between rival militias around the border town of Bordj Badji Mokhtar. They said the militias reflected the influx of Al Qaida-aligned fighters from neighboring Mali amid […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Morocco has reported the capture of an Al Qaida cell. The Interior Ministry said security forces dismantled a cell sponsored by Al Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb. The ministry said the cell was directed to target government facilities in the North African kingdom. “Those recruited were connected to Al […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Morocco and the United States have been reviewing joint naval operations in the Mediterranean Sea. The administration of President Barack Obama has been drafting plans for enhanced naval cooperation with Morocco over the next year. Officials said the cooperation could include joint exercises, coordinated maritime security patrols and training. “Morocco’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Morocco is advancing toward the launch of major solar power plants. Industry sources said the North African kingdom would release tenders for the construction of two solar facilities. They were identified as a 200-megawatt plant and 100 megawatt facility in the southern city of Ouarzazate. The Moroccan Solar Energy Agency […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Sudan’s embattled Darfur region has been cursed by the trauma of ethnic conflict and the continuing tragedy of displacement, refugees and hunger. As the decade long inter-ethnic conflict continues, the region’s violence continues but in a void of being largely forgotten and forsaken by the outside world. Airbrushed from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The new state of South Sudan has been heading toward a split, a report said. The Sudd Institute said South Sudan’s ruling movement has been paralyzed by a crisis that has resulted in mass firings in Juba. In a report, the institute said President Salva Kiir, head of the Sudan’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — While North Korea geared up for the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice, much of the western world was consumed by far happier news. “We’ve just received an important message from London,” said the pilot of a British Airways flight carrying me […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs staff in Juba President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan on July 23, 2013, issued a presidential decree removing Vice President Riek Machar Teny and dissolving the whole government of South Sudan. President Kiir dismissed all 29 ministers and deputy ministers, and did not immediately appoint a new […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — South Sudan plans to again halt crude oil production. Officials said South Sudan intends to end oil production by August amid a renewed dispute with the Khartoum regime in Sudan. Officials said the Juba government has been trying to sell 6.4 million barrels of oil surplus before the shutdown. “This […]