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Apr 30, 2015

EconSource: Libya Chaos Threatens Oilfields, Power Supply, and Gas Exports to Italy

By EconSource

Libyan protesters demanding jobs have shut down the eastern Irda gas field and are threatening to close the western Wafa oil and gas field, which would stop gas exports to Italy, a spokesman for Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said.

MENASource

Apr 29, 2015

Tunisia’s Security Sector and Countering Violent Extremism; Part II: The Police State, Six Years On

By Fadil Aliriza

In 2009, the US Ambassador to Tunisia wrote in a cable later published by Wikileaks, “Tunisia is a police state,” where the ruling regime used the police to protect itself rather than citizens.

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 29, 2015

Top News: King Salman of Saudi Arabia Changes Line of Succession

By MENASource

King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud issued a series of surprise royal decrees early Wednesday, shaking up the line of princes slated to succeed him to the throne, replacing a number of ministers and further enhancing the power of his own line.

MENASource

Apr 29, 2015

Top News: Court Acquits Journalist and Twelve Others on Rioting Charges, Sentences Sixty-Three

By EgyptSource

A Cairo criminal court has acquitted journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziyada, after he spent more than 486 days in pretrial detention. The court acquitted twelve other defendants and sentenced sixty-three others. The sixty-three sentenced defendants received prison sentences ranging from a year to seven years’ hard labor. 

MENASource

Apr 29, 2015

EconSource: Oil Dips on Oversupply after Saudi Reshuffle

By EconSource

Oil prices slipped on Wednesday on oversupply after news that King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia had reshuffled the kingdom’s line of royal succession.

MENASource

Apr 28, 2015

Top News: Yemen Struggles to Import Food as Coalition Navies Hold Up More Ships

By MENASource

Yemen is facing mounting problems bringing in food by sea as the danger from fighting between Houthis and government supporters is exacerbated by an arms blockade by Saudi-led coalition navies searching ships for weapons destined for the rebels.

MENASource

Apr 28, 2015

What’s Next for Egypt’s Military and Media Moguls?

By Miriam Berger

It’s just past three o’clock in December and the Dot Masr office is bustling. Dozens of twenty-something Egyptians tap away at desktop computers in the website’s open newsroom in the two-story office in Garden City, Cairo — prime real estate. 

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 28, 2015

Top News: New Lawsuit Against Mubarak to Investigate Political Crimes

By EgyptSource

The Administrative Court of the State Council referred on Tuesday the lawsuit filed by Samir Sabry to the State Commissioner’s Authority, seeking a legal opinion. In the lawsuit, Sabry demanded that the President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi form a fact-finding committee to prepare a report on corruption crimes committed under former President Hosni Mubarak. 

MENASource

Apr 28, 2015

EconSource: Gulf Banks Tighten Credit for Small Firms as Cheap Oil Bites

By EconSource

Banks are tightening lending conditions for small, private companies in the Gulf, a sign that the region’s economies are not escaping damage from the plunge of oil prices.

MENASource

Apr 27, 2015

Syria: Is Assad Slipping?

By Frederic C. Hof

Recent tactical setbacks by Assad regime forces in northwestern Syria are reviving—for the first time since early 2013—fin du régime hopes and speculation. Reporting from the region suggests that arms transfers from Gulf powers and Turkey are enabling rebels to overcome exhausted and exposed Syrian Arab Army units.

Syria