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Africa needs stronger resources governance amid current global critical minerals rush — experts

African governments need to develop robust strategies for the critical minerals sector amid global rush for the continent’s lithium and other strategically important rare metals, a recent research has found. Demand for lithium, for example, tripled from 2017 to 2022, while the critical minerals market doubled in five years, reaching US$320 billion in 2022, according […]

Most Moroccans want open borders with Algeria – Survey

A recently conducted survey covering different social categories found that 89% of Moroccans back open borders in Algeria and believe that closer economic cooperation is the way forward to resolve political disputes, the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis said. More than 1200 people took part in the survey, which revealed a strong popular support for […]

Syria Undone – Acting on the G-Point

The war in Syria is well into its third year, while the number of casualties has sky-rocketed, though, of course, nobody can say for sure how many lives the war has really claimed. Hezbollah, Iran and Russia have all heavily invested in the survival of the Syrian regime. Having thus turned the tide of the […]