Cote d’Ivoire Tilts Economy From Farming To Natural Resources
July 23rd, 2024
Via Terra Daily, an article on Cote d’Ivoire’s economic shift towards natural resources: The discovery of huge deposits of natural resources including oil, gas and gold in the Ivory Coast is pushing the country’s economy in a new direction as it explores its underground potential.Over the last three years, the West African country — traditionally […]
Read more »Dangote’s Standoff With Nigeria Intensifies, Risking Investments
July 23rd, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on Dangote’s standoff with Nigeria: Billionaire scraps plan to invest in a domestic steel plant Tycoon says his refinery produces the ‘best’ diesel in Nigeria Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, says that diesel produced by his massive refinery is the best that’s sold in Nigeria, even as lawmakers consider a probe […]
Read more »Africa’s New Railway Age
July 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how Sino-American tensions in Africa are playing out on the tracks: “Every inhabitant of Thiès”, wrote a Senegalese novelist, Ousmane Sembène, in 1960, “depended on the railway.” Like many African cities, Thiès was a product of the continent’s first, colonial-era rail revolution. The French-built railway that ran through it […]
Read more »Algeria Stands as Russia’s Gateway to Maghreb Region
July 23rd, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on how Russian-Algerian bilateral trade turnover increased 2.2 times and at the end of 2023 reached $3.765 billion, according to an official report: Russian-Algerian bilateral trade turnover increased 2.2 times and at the end of 2023 reached $3.765 billion, according to an official report on the working visit of Chairman […]
Read more »China’s Long March through the Global South
July 22nd, 2024
Courtesy of The Asia Times, a report on China’s growing influence in the Global South, and how the US should combine with Japan, South Korea and Germany to compete; together they have more resources, more capital: The “Long March” analogy isn’t my idea. Chinese policymakers talk of Mao’s civil war strategy of encircling the cities […]
Read more »Turkey’s Growing Interests In Africa
July 22nd, 2024
Via Energy Daily, a look at Turkey’s growing interests in Africa: Turkey is pushing for diplomatic and economic influence on the world stage — not least in Africa, where it announced plans this week to search for oil and gas off Somalia.Over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s two decades in power, Ankara has consolidated its foothold […]
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