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Pandemic and Ukraine war are pushing Africa’s power companies to the brink

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine have been pushing many electric grid utilities in Africa — which have long been strapped for cash — close to financial collapse, whereby this situation is in turn also slowing down the continent’s clean energy transition. Ghana’s electric grid is in dire straits. In the mid-2010s, […]

UN: 5 new members to join Security Council starting January 2023

The 193-member UN General Assembly held elections Thursday to elect five new non-permanent members of the Security Council. Japan, Mozambique, Ecuador, Malta and Switzerland were thus elected to replace the members whose terms expire Dec. 31. The newly elected will serve as non-permanent members of UN Security Council from 2023 – 2024. The new members […]

Egypt’s support to Haftar’s army is a national priority, President al-Sisi

President al-Sisi of Egypt has confirmed that his government has been providing support to the Libyan National Army (LNA) under the command of Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar. The Egyptian president stated that “it is our country’s priority to back up national armies, for example in Libya, to assert control over Libyan territories and deal with […]