How Algeria Can Help China Plug Iron Ore Gaps and Gain Pricing Power
December 29th, 2025
Via the South China Morning Post, a report on how Algeria’s Gara Djebilet deposit in the Sahara Desert – discovered decades ago – is only now coming into production: In the heart of Algeria’s Sahara Desert, Chinese state-owned giant China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has completed laying track on the PK330 Bridge, a final and […]
Read more »Is Western Sahara Washington’s New Strategic Priority to Access Minerals?
November 19th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, an article on why has Donald Trump seized on Western Sahara – a file Washington long kept at arm’s length? The US catch-up fits a scheme that goes well beyond the stand-off between Rabat and Algiers. For decades, the Western Sahara was never a priority for the US. Folded into the broad Middle […]
Read more »North Africa: On The Rise
November 7th, 2025
Via Global Finance, a report on how North Africa is emerging as a growth engine, led by Egypt and Morocco. But structural challenges persist. This year again, North Africa is the fastest growing region in Africa and the Arab world. Combined GDP growth in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya is expected […]
Read more »Algeria : Sonatrach Expands its Footprint in Southern Africa
October 24th, 2025
Via Africa News Agency, a report on Sonatrach expanding its footprint in Southern Africa: Algeria’s Sonatrach and Mozambique’s ENH (Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos E.P.) signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation in the oil and gas sector. The agreement, inked in Maputo by Rachid Hachichi (Sonatrach CEO) and Ludovina Bernardo (ENH Chair), with Algerian […]
Read more »Algeria Clinches $5.4 billion Oil and Gas Deal with Saudi Arabia
October 17th, 2025
Via Business Insider, an article on how Algeria has secured a $5.4 billion production-sharing agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Midad Energy to explore and develop oil and gas reserves in the Illizi Basin, marking a major step in the North African country’s energy expansion and foreign investment strategy: Saudi Arabia’s Midad Energy signed a $5.4 billion […]
Read more »Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
August 22nd, 2025
Via Wired, a look at how Africa’s energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus. From Algeria on the Mediterranean coast to landlocked Zambia in the south, countries across Africa have been importing significantly more solar panels from China this year than […]
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