PARIS / DAKAR: President Emmanuel Macron heads to Mali Sunday to throw France’s weight behind a new West African military force he hopes will lay the basis...
ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal: When Sadio Gassama decided to go into medicine, he started by giving free checkups at his mosque in Senegal’s poor southern region of...
DAKAR: The Ebola epidemic could flare up again in West Africa and health authorities are no better equipped to control it than they were a year ago, the head...
HASTINGS, Sierra Leone: When Dr. Sekou Kanneh goes to work at his Sierra Leonean Ebola clinic, he will probably be in the “red zone” for many hours, ignoring...
N'DJAMENA/MAIDUGURI: Nearly a week after Nigeria announced a ceasefire deal with Boko Haram, which it said would include the release of more than 200...
SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal: Once a lively French colonial trading port, the sleepy city of Saint-Louis in West Africa's Senegal bursts into life for just a few days...
GENEVA: Iran plans to invest around 8.5 billion euros ($11.4 billion) in its aluminum industry as part of plans to nearly quadruple its production by 2025, an...
LONDON/GENEVA: Libya’s crude oil exports have shrunk to just over 10 percent of capacity from three of the country’s ports, out of a possible nine, as armed...
GENEVA: U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought policies after warnings that climate change would increase their frequency and severity.Droughts...
GENEVA/DUBAI: Iran’s crude oil exports in December leapt to their highest level since European Union sanctions took effect last July, analysts and...
VIENNA: Libya plans to improve the terms for foreign oil firms ahead of its next licensing round and could begin seeking bids in the third quarter of 2013,...
VIENNA/ABU DHABI: Royal Dutch Shell, RWE and TransGlobe Energy have won concessions in Egypt’s first licensing round since the 2011 revolution in a sign...
GENEVA: Hungarian oil and gas group MOL said Monday a Syrian firm was continuing oil production at its Hayan field, even after MOL suspended the field's...
LONDON/CAIRO: Egypt is finding it increasingly difficult to import fuel as foreign banks and traders pull the plug on credit and charge high premiums due to...
GENEVA: Battles between the Syrian army and rebels in Aleppo have forced many terrified civilians to flee the city by perilous routes or take refuge in safer...
GENEVA: Russia and Western powers locked horns over a peace plan for Syria on Saturday as U.N. mediator Kofi Annan warned the conflict could spread across the...
GENEVA/LONDON: Egypt has struggled to obtain bank payments for its fuel purchases, trade sources said, delaying diesel supplies for transport, industry and...
LONDON: Oil traders arranging millions of dollars worth of fuel shipments to Syria sit in the office of a little-known firm in Greece. The fuel, liquid...
GENEVA: Russia criticised U.N. investigators on Friday for failing to adequately probe deaths caused by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) bombs during...
CARACAS/GENEVA: The government of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is emerging as a rare supplier of diesel to Syria, potentially undermining Western sanctions and...
GENEVA: U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill plans to continue grain shipments to Iran, its vice chairman said on Wednesday, despite signs the Islamic Republic is...
GENEVA/LONDON: Turkish refiner Tupras plans to cut its dependence on imports of Iranian oil and will meet Saudi Arabian authorities this month, industry...
LONDON: Sanctions on Syria’s oil sector are squeezing the country in the short term but production and exports are likely to resume once Syrian oil...