Drilling for oil and gas began in Nigeria’s northeast this week, a first for the African oil giant, NNPC, which has exploited large deposits in the south for decades and whose production is declining. During a visit in the Kolmani field, located in Gombe and Bauchi states, to inaugurate the drilling site, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu […]
North Africa’s wheat import landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation, with Black Sea suppliers now controlling 75 percent of the market as European Union share plummets to 25 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest analysis. The region, comprising Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, represents 15 percent of global wheat imports. During […]
Moroccan authorities have tightened control for inbound travellers at the airports of Marrakech-Menara and Essaouira-Mogador after several European countries have reported cases of the more contagious variant of Covid-19 which was first identified in UK. Besides the required covid-19 negative test, temperature screening, face-mask wearing and the respect of the distancing rules, the passengers may […]
