... Studies of the RAS.
The goal of the conference was to discuss and develop mechanisms to prevent and overcome instability. Experts discussed the main factors of the processes of destabilization and stabilization in the countries of the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel. In addition, the participants raised issues related to the revolutionary processes in the countries of the discussed regions. Particular attention was paid to the prospects for holding elections in Libya.
On the part of the RIAC, the conference was attended by: Denis Degterev, Professor of the Faculty of International Relations of MGIMO University; Grigory Lukyanov, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics; ...
Will Libya become another Somalia? According to Italian Interior Ministry, the Islamic State has already taken control of ports and maritime assets in key Libyan territories, prompting real concerns that such actions could lead to a boom in piracy and maritime crime. Imitating pirates around the Horn of Africa, the Islamic State could launch its own piracy operations in the Mediterranean.
Piracy around the Horn of Africa, which affected container ships, fishing vessels and cruise ships traversing the strategically important location, has been brought ...
... described the move as a “sovereign decision.”
Niger shares common borders with Algeria and Mali. It sits just below Libya and to the east of Mali.
Algeria has been experiencing problems in the refugee camps controlled by the Polisario Front ... ... France and the United States, among others.
Will Russia play an expanded role in across the Maghreb and in the Sahel regions of Africa?
The threat potential in and around the Tindouf camps and elsewhere in southern Algeria continues to grow.
Russian Foreign ...
... mineral resources has always been commercial profitability. Subprime cost of oil and gas production as well as the proximity to the European Union, the largest market of supply, rouse interest of the world energy companies to Libya. According to Gazprom, Libya takes the first place in Africa and the fifth among OPEC member-states in terms of proven reserves of light low-sulphur oil (5,1 bln. t). (
http://gazprom.ru/production/projects/deposits/libya
).
Under Muammar Gaddafi there were created in Libya very much peculiar conditions ...
