A trough lies over Capricornia Waters and will move further offshore on Saturday. A ridge will extend throughout the Southern Waters in the wake of the trough.

The minister and his new director have known each other for many years. In the early 2000s when he was at the helm of the SNPC, Itoua dispatched Onanga to train as an oil engineer in Houston.

The United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara, the Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura, is set to hold a series of consultations in New York in the second fortnight of March.