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Climate change will hit Middle East/North Africa hard

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MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA

The region is particularly vulnerable to climate change in terms of rising sea levels, water and food security, desertification, extreme weather events and socio-economic impacts…

OPEC quotas may have small impact

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INTERNATIONAL

OPEC's decision to try to agree new quotas for its members, albeit with key exemptions, suggests a fragile consensus is growing around a change in policy direction towards…

Tripoli offensive punctuates otherwise normal life

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LIBYA

Tripoli's Mitiga Airport has been closed and flights diverted to Misrata owing to a military offensive by eastern rebel general Khalifa Haftar to take the capital. The fighting…

Libya talks will go on regardless of Congress decision

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LIBYA

The first condition is to move the location of the talks from Geneva to Ghat. The second is that the other attendees recognise the Supreme Court ruling of November 2014, which…

Maghreb-Gulf ties will outlast tensions

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NORTH AFRICA

Intra-regional tensions

Russia uses Middle Eastern ties to mitigate isolation

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RUSSIA

Syria has been Russia's central 'project' in the Middle East for more than a decade, but Moscow uses diplomatic and trade connections with many other regional states to sidestep…

Sahel dynamics foster illicit economies

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WEST AFRICA

The social, economic and political dynamics of borders in the Sahel and with neighbouring regions.

Increasing migration flow will strain Morocco's budget

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MOROCCO

Earlier, one migrant was killed and 22 injured on October 22 while trying to scale a six-metre border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Morocco has become…