🇲🇱 Over a hundred foreigners arrested for illegal mining in Mali

"More than a hundred foreign nationals, accused of illegally exploiting minerals for several years, have been arrested" - the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water (MMEE).

#Mali

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🇪🇬 Minibus accident leaves at least 20 dead and 8 injured

Twenty people were killed when the minibus toppled into a canal in northern Egypt's Nile Delta. Eight were injured.

The Police had arrested the driver after a preliminary drug test suggested he had been driving under the influence of narcotics. He was also suspected of using a mobile phone at the wheel at the time of accident.

#Egypt

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🇷🇺🇲🇼 Russian firm agrees to ship fertlizers to Africa from parts of Europe

Russian fertilizer producer Uralchem-Uralkali has agreed with the Netherlands, Estonia and Belgium to supply cargoes of fertilizers stranded in those countries to Africa, TASS news agency reported on Saturday.

It cited Uralchem’s head Dmitry Konyaev as saying the group was “actively working with the UN to organise free deliveries to Africa of more than 262,000 tonnes of mineral fertilizers that have been ‘frozen’ in EU countries”.

According to UN officials, the first shipment of donated fertilizers is expected to head to Malawi in the coming week.

#Russia #Malawi

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🇳🇬 Nigeria suffers worst floods in a decade

Hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed and communities left stranded in Nigeria's worst flooding in years.

#Nigeria

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🇹🇿 Iranian sailors are released from Tanzanian prison after 10 years

16 Iranian sailors were arrested about 10 years ago along with their barge on various charges in the Indian Ocean by the Tanzanian police. They were in prison in Dar es Salaam.

With the efforts of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Dar es Salaam, the sailors were released. They arrived at the Imam Khomeini International Airport on early Saturday.

#Tanzania #Iran

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🇳🇬Canada and Nigeria target oil and gas methane emissions

Oil and gas producers Canada and Nigeria have become the latest countries to tackle the potent greenhouse gas methane with laws to rein in emissions in the fossil fuel energy sector.

The announcements came as the United States on Friday said it would expand its own rules to require oil and gas drillers to find and fix leaks of methane at all of the country's well sites.

Canada said its new rules would target a 75% cut in methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 2030, including through a proposed monthly requirement for oil and gas companies to find and fix methane leaks in their infrastructure.

Nigeria, among the world's top 10 methane emitters, announced new rules for how to reduce emissions in its oil and gas industry. They include requirements for leak detection and repair, limits to flaring and controls on venting equipment.

#Nigeria

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🇫🇷 France to end military Operation Barkhane in Sahel

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced that France was ending its Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in Africa, saying a new strategy would be worked out with African partners.

▪️France announced the start of Operation Barkhane in August 2014. The main goal was to prevent the spreading of radical Islamism in the region. The maximum number of French troops involved in the operation was 5,500.

▪️For more than eight years of its presence, the French contingent hasn't stopped the advance of extremism and further destabilization in the region. Tired of the ongoing war, the population accuses France of failing to stop the radical islamists' violence.

▪️Irritation among the local military-political elites led to coups d'etat in Mali and Burkina Faso.

▪️After the Malian authorities turned to the Russian Wagner's PMC for support, Paris stepped up the process of curtailing its contingent. The last French soldier left Malian territory on August 15.

As for the French military presence, it is planned to keep around 3,000 French soldiers in Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger. There are no immediate plans for cutting the grouping.

#analytics #France

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🇸🇩 Thousands of Sudanese protest against UN in Khartoum

For the second time in two weeks, thousands of Sudanese demonstrated on Saturday in front of a UN delegation in Khartoum, protesting international interference and calling for a UN withdrawal from the country.

They also denounce a proposed constitution drafted by the pro-democracy Sudanese Bar Association that calls for a civilian government.

#Sudan

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🇲🇿 Mozambique exported its first shipment of liquefied natural gas

In Mozambique, the first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility deployed in deep waters and capable of producing up to 3.4 million tonnes of LNG per year has made its first export under a long-term purchase and sale with the British group BP.

#Mozambique

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🇸🇸 Floods cause famine in South Sudan

More than a million people in South Sudan have been affected by extreme flooding. The area of permanently submerged land has tripled and an already dire food security situation has worsened, leaving 2.9 million people on the brink of starvation.

#SouthSudan

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🇿🇦 South Africa to push for G20 seat for African Union

A spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa, said South Africa will help table a framework for the continental group to officially join the club of rich nations.

“It’s important that the collective voice of the continent is represented within that platform,” presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya told a press briefing.

South Africa is currently the only African member of the G20.

#SouthAfrica

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🇧🇯 Benin gets first francophone Africa large offgrid power project

Benin is to get francophone West Africa’s first large-scale off-grid power project with an initiative backed by US government agency Millennium Challenge Corp. expected to lead to further investment.

The $8.8 million solar and battery project to electrify 12 villages in the country is co-financed by NEoT Offgrid Africa, an investment group founded by Electricite de France SA and Meridiam Infrastructure Partners SAS. ARESS and a unit of Generale du Solaire SAS are implementing the project.

This “is the pilot phase for regulating off-grid electrification in the Republic of Benin, a first in West Africa,” the groups said in the statement.

#Benin

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🇹🇳 Tunisia is experimenting with floating solar stations

It is an innovative project, the first on the continent.

Led by renewable energy developer Qair, this 200 kilowatt project. will undoubtedly serve as a prototype before expanding throughout the territory.

The Tunisian government does not hide its ambitions. He wants to produce 35% of electricity from renewable energies in 2030".

#Tunisia

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⚡️🇿🇦 South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu on a farm in the eastern part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday, citing a report from local authorities.

Some 58 "domestic birds" of a total flock of 200 were found dead of the highly contagious virus, the report said, without giving additional details on the type of birds.

#SouthAfrica

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🇿🇦 South Africa and NASA renew lunar exploration partnership

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) have renewed their partnership in lunar exploration with the groundbreaking of a new communications facility that will help the Artemis missions return humans to the Moon. The ceremony came after the signing of a Letter of Intent between NASA and the South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) to formalize the space exploration partnership.

#SouthAfrica

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