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Two Memoranda of Understanding on the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline were signed on Saturday in Nouakchott, Mauritania, to advance the progress of the project which aims to turn Africa into a self-reliant continent in terms of gas supply. The first MoU was signed by Morocco’s National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM), the National Nigerian Petroleum […]
A new liquefied natural gas project near Senegal and Mauritania’s coastlines may only be 80% complete, but the prospect of a new energy supplier has already drawn visits from several European leaders, scrambling to secure alternative sources after Moscow has reduced natural gas flows to EU countries. While Africa’s natural gas reserves are vast and […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has promised that his country will do all it can to send more grain to Africa, as many countries on the continent depend heavily on grain imports from Ukraine and Russia while the war between the two has disrupted global supply. As he began his African tour this week in […]
The African Union (AU) reiterated its push for the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom to lift all sanctions against Zimbabwe at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. AU chairman — Senegal’s president Macky Sall — said the “harsh measures continue to fuel a sense of injustice against an entire people, and […]
At the United Nations General Assembly, leaders from Qatar, Senegal and Turkey called for immediate peace talks between Moscow and Kiev to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Germany and France denounced Putin’s imperialism in its smaller neighbor. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has taken centre stage at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday (20 September), […]
Namibia’s first ‘green hydrogen’ power plant — and also first one being built in Africa — which is expected to begin producing electricity in 2024, presents the southern African country with a dilemma: while Namibia is championing the clean energy, it also announced earlier this month that huge oil deposits had been discovered off its […]
Senegalese President Macky Sall named Amadou Ba as the country’s new Prime Minister, a position abolished in 2019. A statement on state-run national television RTS said Sall has dissolved the government and appointed Ba as the new Prime Minister. Ba, is a close aide of the President. He has served in multiple positions under Sall […]
Environmental disasters, food insecurity and the issue of plastic pollution and the burning of waste — these are the main topics discussed by the more than 50 African environment ministers who have gathered in Senegal this week The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment is taking place in the wake of major flooding and drought […]
Africa’s volatile Sahel region risks becoming a forgotten crisis because of the many competing emergencies around the world, a senior United Nations official has warned. The head of the regional office for West and Central Africa for the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Charles Bernimolin, noted that millions of people in six Sahel […]
Senegalese President Macky Sall has pledged not to transgress democracy amid heated debate about a possibility of a third term in office. “I’ve never answered that question in my country, and I’m not going to do it abroad,” Sall told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the Rotterdam conference on climate change, when asked about his […]