Sahara: Polisario rejects new UN Sahara Envoy pick, deepening its international isolation

The proposed UN envoy for the Sahara, ex-Romania’s Prime Minister, Petre Roman has been rejected by the Algeria-backed polisario front, according to Moroccan news website le360.com.   Refusing the pick of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to fill the vacant post since May 2019 following the resignation of German Horst Köhler, will deepen further the […]

Repsol Finds Gas in Algeria

Spain’s oil company Repsol has discovered lately gas in the Illizi basin, in the south east of Algeria. The discovery was made during an exploration campaign launched in 2011 at the Tihalatine South-1 well in the Sud-Est Illize block. A consortium led by Repsol won in 2010an exploration license to dig for oil and gas  […]

EV Batteries: China’s Hailiang to build $288 Mln Copper Plant in Morocco

Chinese company Zhejiang Hailiang has announced plans to invest $288 million in a Moroccan facility to produce copper foil for lithium batteries to power electric vehicles. According to press reports, citing the Company’s filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the new Moroccan base will enable the Chinese producer of copper tubes and rods to meet […]