Iran In Talks With Afghanistan To Resume Ambitious Rail Project
March 9th, 2022
Via The Frontier Post, a report that Iran is in talks with the Taliban to resume an ambitious rail project: Iran is holding talks with the Taliban to resume construction of an ambitious rail project that ultimately aims to connect at least five Central Asian countries, according to an Iranian official. Iran is ready to make […]
Read more »Rich Lamu Oil Discovery Fuels Kenya’s Economic Dreams
March 9th, 2022
Via The East African, an article on how a rich Lamu oil find may fuel Kenya’s economic dreams: Kenya is just weeks away from announcing the discovery of new oil resources in the Lamu basin, bigger than what was found a decade ago in Turkana, in what could be a turning point for the country’s […]
Read more »Taliban Face Tough Diplomacy on Afghanistan’s Resources
March 9th, 2022
Via The Frontier Post, commentary on challenges facing Afghanistan’s development of its natural resources: If Afghanistan had not been a victim of a decades long external and civil war, by now it would have become a leading economic player through the prudent use of its natural resources. Several scientific reports and surveys have suggested that […]
Read more »Belt & Road Reaching Far and Wide In Middle East
March 7th, 2022
Via The Asia Times, an article on how China’s infrastructure scheme is now connected from Iran through Iraq to the eastern Mediterranean with more links to come: “All eyes on Ukraine,” writes a former staff member of a British prime minister in an email. That is understandable, but not to the exclusion of everything else. […]
Read more »Ukraine War Has Killed China’s Eurasian Railway Dreams
March 7th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, an article on the impact of the Ukraine conflict on China’s ‘Iron Silk Road’ dreams: When he was welcomed to Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Feb. 6 for the Olympics, Polish President Andrzej Duda talked to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the long-standing vision of transforming Poland into China’s “gateway to Europe.” […]
Read more »Y’ello Future: MTN’s Efforts To Woo Gen Z African Users
March 6th, 2022
Via Quartz Africa, an article on how MTN, Africa’s biggest telcom, thinks its booming fintech and 4G services will woo Gen Z users: Last year in Nigeria, African telecoms group MTN doubled its mobile money transaction volume, deployed 4G in over 9,000 new sites, and bought spectrum for its 5G rollout. On Feb. 27 while unveiling […]
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