South Africa and its neighbors were at the center of a tussle for influence this week when US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in turn arrived for a diplomatic visit, offering a rare moment of leverage for regional governments intent at using the opportunity to gain concessions and increase trade […]
In Mauritius, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) need to develop energy efficiency systems to manage better their energy use, the minister of energy and public utilities Ivan Collendavelloo said. According to Collendavelloo, improving SMEs’ energy efficiency is a key way to increase their profitability and competitiveness. He stressed the need to implement modern energy production […]
As China has come to dominate global supply chains for critical raw materials (CRM) over the last two decades, the European Union and the United States have played a catch-up in race for the control of the CRM supplies — with African countries being “caught in the cross-fire”. Faced with China’s lithium mining head-start, the […]
