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Egypt Gets $87 million from OPIC to support Ras Gharib wind farm project

The US government’s development finance institution, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), has approved an $87 million loan to Lekela Egypt Wind Power BOO. According to local media, Lekela Egypt Wind Power BOO, a subsidiary of Lekela Power, an independent power producer (IPP) based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, will use the loan to develop the Ras […]

EU trawlers to leave Senegalese waters

The EU said it will not renew a fisheries deal with Senegal, whom it accused of non-cooperating on illegal fishing. The EU delegation in the West African country also accused Senegal of “failures in monitoring, control, and surveillance systems” on Senegalese ships in extraterritorial waters as well as on foreign vessels in the port of […]

Moroccan Sahara highway almost complete

Works to build a highway linking Tiznit in central Morocco to Dakhla are now 81% complete, in a key project that will improve connectivity between Morocco and its south and open a gateway for road traffic to the rest of Africa. The new 1055km-long road will be built at a cost of 10 billion dirhams […]