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Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly stressed Wednesday the importance of charting new trade routes to facilitate the transfer of goods between Egypt and Algeria other than the land route passing through Libya due to the current tensions there, according to a statement released by the Egyptian cabinet following Madbouly’s meeting with his Algerian counterpart.

Libya’s outgoing prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, suspended the board of directors of the state-owned General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) over the country’s electricity crisis, Dbeibeh’s government announced on Sunday.

Oil prices tumbled on Wednesday on news of a plan by U.S. President Joe Biden to cut fuel costs for drivers and amid concerns over a potential economic recession after recent central bank rate hikes, which also weighed on equities, Reuters reported.