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No breakthrough in Egypt-Ethiopia Nile water talks

Talks between Egypt and Ethiopia on sharing the Nile water have hit a dead-end as both parties trade accusations. As Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, the largest in Africa, nears its completion, Egypt protested that the installation may block its share of Nile water, which secures more than 90% of the water supply in the arid country. […]

France in face of Algeria’s Frankenstein Syndrome

Relations between France and Algeria have deteriorated to their worst level in decades in a showdown in which French President Emmanuel Macron assumes some responsibility in having sought to reconcile with an Algerian military-led regime that subsists on hostility to anything French. In offering too many concessions to the military regime in Algiers and turning […]

Canadian Company Exploring for Gold in Mauritania

Canadian company Algold Resources has been awarded a 30-year mining license to drill for gold in Tijirit project, in Mauritania. Under the terms of the mining license, Algold will deliver a feasibility study by December 2018. Algold acquired the Tijirit project in April 2016 and immediately commenced a major exploration program, under which it completed […]