Angola Pushes Ahead With Key Corridor
March 15th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at the Lobito Corridor project, in light of the Trump Administration’s dissolution of USAID: Despite US funding uncertainty, officials say the strategic rail and road project from DRC to Angola’s Atlantic coast will forge ahead. Angola insists its flagship Lobito Corridor project will move forward regardless of concerns over […]
Read more »Qatar To Supply Natural Gas To Syria’s New Government
March 15th, 2025
Via OilPrice.com, a report that Qatar will supply natural gas to Syria’s new government: Qatar is set to supply Syria with natural gas via Jordan with Washington’s approval, Reuters has reported. Qatar was one of the fiercest opponents of the deposed Bashar al-Assad and one of the strongest supporters of the rebels-turned rulers currently in charge. The […]
Read more »Bolivia Authorizes State Oil Company To Tap Crypto for Fuel Trade
March 15th, 2025
Via MSN, a report on Bolivia’s authorization of its state oil company to use cryptocurrency for energy imports: Key Takeaways Bolivia’s state energy firm, YPFB, will use cryptocurrency for energy imports amid a worsening fuel crisis. The country is struggling with declining gas exports and a shortage of foreign currency reserves. Crypto adoption in Bolivia […]
Read more »The Unlikely Revival Of A Great Middle Eastern Railroad
March 15th, 2025
Via Noema, a report on how a railroad that once linked Damascus to Medina, its tracks and stations now crumbling into the desert or destroyed by treasure hunters, could help stitch a fragmented region back together: In the center of this city in southern Syria is a long, rectangular warehouse constructed of black basalt. It […]
Read more »Plans for a Chinese Port Roil the Politics of a Former Soviet Nation
March 13th, 2025
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Georgia’s government sparked an uproar by announcing that a port project on the Black Sea will be awarded to a company from China after canceling a contract with a consortium that included Western firms: For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet […]
Read more »Malaysian EV Brands Gain Speed On China’s BYD
March 13th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Malaysian EV brands plans to give China’s BYD a run for its money: Malaysian electric vehicles are gaining ground in their home market as local carmakers Proton Holdings and Perodua challenge top-seller BYD and Tesla with more affordable models. Proton said last week that sales of the e.MAS 7 […]
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