BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Output from Iraq’s Basra Gas Company (BGC) is expected to reach 1,050 million standard cubic feet per day (mcf/d) by the end of 2018, an increase of 150 million mcf/d from current levels, the oil ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Iraq’s gas development plans have long focused on BGC, a $17 billion joint venture between… Read more »
Yemen war: UN-backed talks set to launch Talks in Sweden this week aim to end fighting and what the UN calls the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. by Paul Chaderjian 4 Dec 2018 MORE ON MIDDLE EAST Is peace in Yemen within reach?today Sudan pharmacies running out of life-saving medicationstoday Lebanon speaker says Israel gave no proof of border… Read more »
West Africa has been seeking fortune through cocoa production since the mid to late 19th century, but have not had much luck. Ghana and the Ivory Coast produce 60% of the world’s cocoa but mostly sell unprocessed beans. Their cocoa export earnings are less than a tenth of the world’s chocolate sales, for the true power lies in a small… Read more »
All you need to know about the Yemen peace talks As some of the key players in Yemen’s war meet in Sweden, is peace finally within reach? by Faisal Edroos 3 Dec 2018 MORE ON YEMEN Is peace in Yemen within reach?today Yemenis ‘pray’ upcoming talks will end wartoday Yemen war: UN-backed talks set to launchyesterday Yemen to face worst humanitarian… Read more »
Yemen’s government to swap hundreds of prisoners with Houthis Deal expected to cover up to 2,000 pro-government forces and 1,500 Houthis, as warring parties prepare for Sweden talks. by Faisal Edroos 4 Dec 2018 The prisoner exchange would be the third since the start of the war in 2015 [Maad El Zikry/AP] MORE ON YEMEN Is peace in Yemen within reach?today… Read more »
UN jet evacuates 50 wounded Houthi rebels to Oman Saudi-UAE coalition says arrangement requested by UN envoy Griffiths as goodwill gesture before Sweden peace talks. 3 Dec 2018 The fate of wounded rebels had been a stumbling block to the start of a previous round of aborted peace talks [File: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters] MORE ON YEMEN Is peace in Yemen within reach?today… Read more »
For the past two months we have been hearing about the saga that is the Jamal Khashoggi Murder. A permanent US resident who happens to be a journalist that is extremely critical of MBS was killed and nothing has been done. MBS has been known to be very progressive but how progressive can one be if they are killing journalists… Read more »
In 1876 tetteh quarshie, a blacksmith, smuggled the first cocoa beans into Ghana, hidden beneath his box of tools. He is now celebrated as a national hero; his trees, planted in the hills outside Accra, are a tourist attraction. But did cocoa make him rich? “No,” says a guide. “He harvested for the first time, and then he died.” West… Read more »
In the sahara, rain is said to bring good luck. So negotiators from the United Nations should be encouraged by a recent downpour in Laayoune, the capital of Western Sahara. On December 5th they will gather in Geneva to try, yet again, to resolve the differences between Morocco, which rules two-thirds of the territory, and the Polisario Front, a nationalist… Read more »
Qatar foundation stadium has no fans or grass, but the action on the pitch is frantic. Two years ago it was a hole in the ground. Now a hulking crane and dozens of workers are installing a compression ring that will support the 4,500-tonne roof. Meanwhile, a state-run laboratory is experimenting with grasses flown in from around the world to find… Read more »