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Morocco features in UK energy strategy plan as electricity supplier

The project consisting in shipping electricity from Morocco to the UK led by Xlinks has featured in the UK’ s government energy security plan, dubbed Powering UP Britain. The policy paper sets out interest in the Xlinks project, a proposed large scale onshore wind, solar and battery electricity generation site in Morocco that would exclusively […]

Repsol Finds Gas in Algeria

Spain’s oil company Repsol has discovered lately gas in the Illizi basin, in the south east of Algeria. The discovery was made during an exploration campaign launched in 2011 at the Tihalatine South-1 well in the Sud-Est Illize block. A consortium led by Repsol won in 2010an exploration license to dig for oil and gas  […]

DR Congo, EAC sign deal to deploy joint regional force to fight negative forces in the bloc’s new member

The East African Community (EAC) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed an agreement last Friday for the deployment of an EAC joint regional force to fight negative forces in the bloc’s new member, Xinhua reported. EAC Secretary General, Peter Mathuki, and DRC’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Christophe Lutundula […]