OCP & Fraunhofer IMWS sign agreement

Mauritania: Government Canvasses for President’s Stay in Power after 2019

Tensions raised high in Mauritania Wednesday as the Government went public calling for constitutional change to allow the current President to stand for elections in 2019, in contrast to current constitution which limits power to two terms in a row. On Tuesday, the Government’s spokesman Mohamed Lemine Ould Cheikh said at a press conference that […]

EU Calls for resumption of “meaningful negotiations” between Israel, Palestine

The European Union has called on Wednesday for the resumption of “meaningful negotiations” between Israel and Palestine to reach a comprehensive settlement to their longstanding conflict. This came in a series of annual reports released by the European Commission and the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the implementation […]

Africa, Middle East install close to 1 GW of wind power in 2018

Africa and the Middle East installed 962 MW of new onshore wind capacity in 2018, up by more than 300 MW from a year earlier, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said Monday. The three countries that led the growth were Egypt with 380 MW, Kenya with 310 MW and Morocco with 120 MW. The […]