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Will Trump’s Mediation Finally Resolve The Egypt-Ethiopia Dam Dispute?
...naissance Dam (GERD) (MEES, 12 September 2025), US President Donald Trump has waded back into the 15-year dispute over Nile water security, offering to mediate between Ethiopia and the downstream states of Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia broke ground on the $5bn megaproject in 2011, while Egypt was busy qu...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Trump Intervention Throws Iraqi Politics Into Disarray
...d then supported his crackdown on Shia militias during his first term in office. But after the US military withdrawal in 2011 he drew closer to Iran, while the rise of the Islamic State during his second term further tarnished his reputation in Washington. While Iraq’s Sunnis publicly opposed a Ma...
Volume: 69Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2026 -
Morocco Looks To Renewables In Western Sahara Recognition Powerplay
...rst wind project which started up in 2011. It has since been joined by Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power – Riyadh is a longstanding ally of Rabat and has long accepted Morocco’s control over Western Sahara – and Italy’s Enel. Meanwhile French national champion Engie (formerly Gaz de France) partners Mo...
Volume: 68Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2025 -
Libya’s Power Sector In A Race Against Time
...vember 2020) though more is needed. Power supply shortages have been a huge problem since the 2011 revolution and the chaos that followed (MEES, 21 January 2019). But capacity was flagging even before the uprising: one unit of the 480MW Khoms steam turbine plant hasn’t been overhauled since 1996. Ma...
Volume: 64Issue: 05Published at Fri, 05 Feb 2021 -
Qatar 2018 Revenue Surge Finances Renewed Checkbook Diplomacy
...rch 2018 (MEES, 30 March 2018). Bilateral relations have been strong following since Qatar’s mediation in the Darfur conflict, which resulted in the 2011 Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. Qatar has of course spent lavishly over the years on sports in an attempt to garner international prestige. Th...
Volume: 62Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2019 -
Corruption Destroying Libya’s Future, Says Oil Chief
...ney are bad ones.” A team sent by NOC to the west of the country in late 2017 to investigate oil smuggling found that more than 80% of filling stations were not operational. “We suspect they are being used by smugglers as a front,” said Mr Sanalla. Most of the facilities had been built since 2011. NO...
Volume: 61Issue: 05Published at Fri, 02 Feb 2018 -
New Saudi King Makes His Mark With Wide Cabinet Reshuffle
...st since 2011. Although there is no serious internal threat to the kingdom’s relative stability, despite known sympathy by Saudi youth for the Jihadists — thousands of Saudi youths have joined the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, despite being designated a terrorist organization by Riyadh — the ap...
Volume: 58Issue: 05Published at Fri, 30 Jan 2015 -
Force Majeure A Reminder Of Risks For Energy Producers In Egypt
...wn the impact of the Arab Spring upheaval on business, even as the amount of outstanding receivables continued to grow. Gas Pipeline Bombed, Again But while oil and gas production sites have remained unaffected by the violence that has periodically engulfed Egypt’s main cities since 2011 (th...
Volume: 57Issue: 05Published at Fri, 31 Jan 2014 -
‘Arc Of Instability’ Spreads Across North Africa
...Dellys was attacked at least nine times between 1995 and 2008 (MEES, 28 July 2008). According to Algerian media reports a guard was killed during two further attacks in 2011. And Bouira town was the site of a double car bombing in August 2008, which killed 12 local employees of the Canadian en...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013 -
African Union Grants Sudans More Time
...untries, and to “make recommendations on the strengthening of the AU’s support to the process. (The AUHLIP is a body headed by former South African president Thabo Mbeki, that was set up to facilitate negotiations relating to South Sudan’s secession from Sudan in 2011). While realistic, this ne...
Volume: 56Issue: 05Published at Fri, 01 Feb 2013