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Mauritania: High Profit Expectations On Iron Production

After Forte energy announced earlier on that it will begin its uranium survey drill at the A238 area in Mauritania during the first quarter of the year, Charter Pacific Corporation has also announced that it will be embarking on a reverse circulation drilling and trenching program at its Kaoua El Khadra Iron Ore project in […]

Air pollution costs MENA region $141 billion annually, WB warns

The Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) suffers from excessive air pollution whose cost amounts to $141 billion annually, or around 2% of GDP, the World Bank said in a report released on Monday, urging the region to adopt a green economic policy. The report, titled “Blue Skies, Blue Seas: Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, […]

Shared status: Somaliland, Taiwan expand ties despite diplomatic isolation

Two unlikely territories and the world’s most diplomatically elected governments — Taiwan and Somaliland — are deepening economic and political ties, but all too often, Taipei looks the other way as its formal partners commit human rights abuses, notes a recent analysis published by The Diplomat. Two of the world’s most diplomatically isolated governments are […]