Tunisia has secured a $131.7 million loan from the French Development Agency (AFD) to improve the national electricity grid. The smart grid project was announced in 2017 by the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG), but was delayed due to lack of funding. The AFD funds will be allocated to the implementation of the first […]
In the mid of the 2008 financial meltdown, countries from the periphery injected their hard-won money into the rescue of Western financial institutions and near-defaulting governments. Those events have definitely cleared the way for the arrival of new powers on the international scene, showed in the rush at calling up an enlarged G-20 in early […]
Nigeria has successfully attracted a total of $13 billion in investment commitments in its oil and gas sector from major international energy companies, according to Olu Verheijen, the special adviser on energy to the country’s President Bola Tinubu. Verheijen said that she has partnered with the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and they have […]
