Niger’s military government has accused its neighbor Nigeria of acting as a base for destabilizing actions by terrorist groups or French military and of being implicated in sabotaging its pipeline. Relations between Niger and neighboring Nigeria have soured after the former’s foreign minister, Bakary Yaou Sangare, summoned the Nigerian embassy’s chargé d’affaires, accusing his country […]
Foreign ministers from three west African nations ruled by military regimes — namely Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso — all of whom came to power following coups, met in Burkinabé capital Ouagadougou on Thursday, February 9 on the heels of a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The meeting comes only days […]
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has signed a landmark $637 million deal to build a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility for a European client operating in Mozambique, reinforcing Africa’s rising profile in global energy markets. The state-of-the-art Coral Norte FLNG platform, to be constructed offshore, will liquefy, store, and export natural gas directly […]
