Growing international calls for designating Polisario terrorist organization

An increasingly broad international consensus is emerging across the globe for including the Algeria-backed polisario militias in the U.S. terror black list. Several influential politicians, Associate professors and analysts from Europe, Latin American, the United States…have backed the findings of the recent report published by U.S. Hudson Institute urging the Trump administration to designate the […]

West African cocoa crisis sends chocolate prices up

Higher cocoa prices, due to catastrophic harvest in West Africa, triggered a surge of chocolate prices. About 60% of Cocoa, a key chocolate ingredient, is produced in West African powerhouses Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire, which both reported a sharp drop in output due to a devastating heatwave. Experts expect that chocolate prices would further rise […]

Mali: Renewable Energy Week to attract more investment

The Renewable Energies Agency of Mali and other stakeholder groups such as the World Bank and the Climate Investment Fund are organizing the first edition of the Malian Renewable Energy Week to be held from February 19 to 23 in the capital, Bamako. According to the organizers of the event, it will increase the visibility […]