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China proposes three-area focused plan for Africa as part of Belt and Road Initiative

China has added three new areas for investment to its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) focusing on the African continent where it has spent billions of dollars in infrastructure. The new areas are namely industrialization, increase in agriculture investment and talent development. President Xi Jinping launched the three-pronged plan during a China-Africa leaders’ roundtable meeting […]

Polisario Resumes Provocations East of Sahara Security Wall

Emboldened by Algeria’s military and diplomatic cover, the Polisario inaugurated 2018 with a resumption of provocations in the Guerguarat area, the southernmost tip of Morocco’s southern provinces, the Sahara. Three armed Polisario men have barred the road for an hour and a half to participants in the Desert Sahara Challenge rally competition departing from Dakhla […]

Nigeria’s NNPC, Norway’s Golar ink MoU to build floating LNG plant

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd, Africa’s biggest oil producer, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Norwegian company to build a floating LNG plant in the West African country to boost its domestic supplies and exports. Nigeria’s state oil giant has inked the MoU with Golar Liquefied Natural Gas Energy (GLNG) […]