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Africa’s infrastructure investment has recovered, but is unevenly distributed

Commitments for Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) across 263 projects in Africa were worth $91.7 billion in 2022, a 23% increase from 2021, according to the World Bank’s latest data projection on investments, which demonstrates that infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income countries have started to recover. But in terms of “the total number of […]

Morocco’s phosphates sales up 81% by July

Morocco’s trade balance continues to benefit from higher prices of phosphates and derivatives with sales up 81% to 68.7 billion dirhams by July, the foreign exchange office said. Morocco, which has the world’s largest phosphates reserves, has positioned itself as a major fertilizer producer expanding its market share in the wake of the export restrictions […]

Total Energies to quit South Africa offshore gas fields

French Total Energies said it plans to quit South Africa’s offshore gas fields to focus on more promising discoveries in Namibia, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. The company plans to give up its license for Block 11B/12B because it doubts whether the complex deep-water finds can be made commercially viable, given South Africa’s small gas market, […]