In July 2006, more than 10,000 tons of oil gushed into the Mediterranean after Israel bombed the power station in Jiyyeh, south of Beirut.
While the Lebanese government claims it has made great progress in cleaning up the sea and coastline, environmental campaigners say it has done little to deal with the far greater problem of [...]
Engineer Rafur Rahmani should be pretty pleased with himself
– he is second in command at Azizi Hotak Group, one of Afghanistan’s largest companies. The firm is Afghanistan’s sole Nissan supplier, runs one of its few private banks and imports 80 percent of the country’s liquefied petroleum gas.
But Rahmani has become pessimistic of late, despite the [...]
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