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Côte d’Ivoire to reduce cocoa exports due to bad harvest

Bad news for the chocolate market that could send already high prices skyrocketing. Côte d’Ivoire plans to slash its exports of cocoa in view of prospects of a bad harvest. Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s second largest producer of the main chocolate ingredient, has experienced heavy rainfall that threatens to compromise crops for the second year […]

“Morocco’s Return to AU in Good Progress,” Speaker of Pan-African Parliament

Speaker of the Pan-African Parliament Roger Nkodo Dang said Thursday at the end of a three-day visit to Rabat that Morocco’s return to the African Union (AU) and therefore to the South-Africa-based Pan-African Parliament as envisaged by King Mohammed VI is in progress. The Cameroonian lawmaker said in an interview with Jeune Afrique that he […]

What Future for the North Africa-to-Europe Power Super-Grid?

With the EU aiming to increasingly meet its energy needs from renewable sources – 30 per cent by 2020 and almost 100 per cent by 2050 – a great portion of this renewable power will have to come particularly from large-scale photovoltaic (PV) installations in sunny regions of the North Africa. But since the Maghreb […]