Qatari funds – both privately owned and government run – have been looking again at building relationships in sub-Saharan Africa, whose emerging markets hold the potential for handsome opportunities and returns. Latest among the assets to be...
The deeply polarising campaigns that ushered Iraq towards its 30 April election now look set to give way to a period of political wrangling and uncertainty, as the main parties jostle for influence in the new government. Iraq’s Independent High...
In late March, the media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Al-Malahim, posted a video online of a large gathering of AQAP leaders and members, a bold show of numbers and force which included Nasir Al-Wahayshi, who is the head of...
The US Treasury Department said on 17 April its sanctions office had targeted a Zimbabwean government official, an Angolan businessman, a Singaporean lawyer and a Zimbabwe-based entity for their role in undermining Zimbabwe’s democracy and/or...
African Petroleum Corporation has applied for a listing on Oslo’s junior Axess market, following the appointment of new management in recent months. Controversial former chairman Frank Timis stepped down in October. “Due to historical events...
The Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill has received cabinet approval and will shortly be presented to parliament, four years after it was first drafted. The new law, which will update the previous 1984 legislation, contains provisions for...
London-based Soco International has begun a 2D marine seismic survey over Lake Edward on Block V in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Acquisition began on 26 April, using an environmentally sensitive technique of placing seismic...
Sources in Sanaa tell GSN that Yemen is attempting to draft an economic reform package before the upcoming Friends of Yemen meeting in London on 29 April. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi travelled to Kuwait for the Arab League summit in March,...
Security is deteriorating in the southern province of Lahij, which stretches from Bab Al-Mandab almost to the port of Aden. Southern Movement (Al-Hirak) activists in Aden tell GSN that Lahij is rapidly falling into lawlessness as conflict...
The Gulf countries that have led international support for the campaign to topple the government of Bashir Al-Assad face a number of negative consequences as the bloody civil war drags on, with the increasing likelihood that the Baathist regime...
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