Mauritanian El-Ghassim Wane was appointed by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres as the new UN envoy for Mali. He will replace Chad’s Mahamat Saleh Annadif as head of MINUSMA, the UN largest peacekeeping force of nearly 14,500 troops in Mali. A lawyer by training, El-Ghassim Wane studied in Senegal and France before rising through […]
Senegal and Mauritania are forging ahead with their joint gas fields with the arrival of BP’s floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit in the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 LNG project. The vessel, built at China’s COSCO Qidong Shipyard, will serve the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas project, which is planned […]
Only three months after the launch of the Africa–Europe Alliance, the European Commission presented the first progress made in boosting investment and creating jobs in Africa at the High-Level Forum Africa-Europe held in Vienna, Tuesday. The Forum was hosted jointly by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, as EU President, and Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and […]
