The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has approved a financing of 200 million euros to support the desalination program of Morocco’s phosphates group, OCP. The loan will finance the construction of two OCP seawater desalination facilities, at its key industrial complexes in El Jadida (Jorf Lasfar) and Safi, the bank said in a statement. […]
Hydrocarbons giant Exxon Mobil plans to invest 10 billion dollars in Nigeria’s offshore oil, a spokesman for Nigeria’s presidency said. The investment was discussed by Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima and the CEO of Exxon’s Nigeria operations Shane Harris on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, presidential spokesperson Stanley Nkwocha said […]
Niger has broken off “with immediate effect” its military cooperation agreement with the United States, the West African country’s military government announced on Saturday (16 March), adding that the US military presence in the territory is no longer justified. The declaration read by the ruling junta’s spokesman Colonel Amadou Abdramane came just a day after […]
