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Greece teams up with Egypt on gas supply, infrastructure

Link to article:https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/greece-teams-up-with-egypt-gas-supply-infrastructure-2021-11-25/  Recently on thursday, Greece and Egypt agreed to a deal that will make natural gas more accessible to them. They agreed to expand the cooperation in LNG which is the liquefied natural gas industry. They will examine the possibility of building a sub-sea gas pipeline between the two countries. The two countries signed an agreement to have… Read more »

Islamist bombing near school in Somalia kills 8, wounds 13 children

Link to article:https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/explosion-rocks-somalia-capital-mogadishu-reuters-witness-2021-11-25/  Right outside of a school in Somalia eight people were killed and 17 were injured. Out of these seventeen people injured, thirteen of them were children. At around 7:30 am an Islamic suicide bobmber was attempting to target a convoy of UN officials. In an SUV full of bombs he blew up the SUV right outside of… Read more »

Six Sudanese soldiers killed in Ethiopian attack – Sudan military sources

Link to article:https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/six-sudanese-soldiers-killed-ethiopian-attack-sudan-military-says-2021-11-27/  On the border between Sudan and Ethiopia on one of Sudan’s military posts Sudanese military sources say that six Sudanese soldiers were killed by Ethiopian military forces. Although Ethiopia denies these attacks, Sudan became public about these attacks on facebook saying that this attack resulted in not only loss of lives but heavy military equipment as well…. Read more »

Moroccan king ignores Algeria accusation in speech

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Link to article:https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/moroccan-king-ignores-algeria-accusation-speech-2021-11-06/  During an annual speech about Western Sahara King Mohammed who is Morocco’s king did not mention anything about Algeria’s accusations that Morocco had targeted Algerian citizens in western Sahara. The relationship between Morocco and Algeria has been rocky for years after Algeria supported a Polisario front who said they were resuming their efforts to gain independence of… Read more »

Nigerian army says Islamic State West Africa’s new leader killed in military operation

Link to article:https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerian-army-says-islamic-state-west-africas-new-leader-killed-military-2021-10-28/  On Thursday October 28th the Nigerian Army had reported that they had killed the new leader of an Islamic state in west africa during a military operation. The new leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province was killed during one of the several land and air raids on suspected insurgent locations. He was killed just two… Read more »

EU starts mission to train Mozambique troops to fight insurgency

Link to article https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-starts-mission-train-mozambique-troops-fight-insurgency-2021-11-03/  On Wednesday November third the European Union launched a two year mission to train Mozambique military troops to fight an Islamic state linked insurgency in Cabo Delgado which is the country’s northernmost province. The revolt started in 2017 and has since escalated a ton. Over 3000 people have died and almost one million people have been… Read more »