British runner Ross Cook, 27, has become the world’s first adventurer to cross the African continent running along the west coast from south to north.

Nicknamed “the toughest strange man”, Cook arrived in the Ras Angla region in northern Tunisia, 20 kilometers from Bizerte, the farthest point on the African continent, through which he crossed 16 countries.

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Koch crossed Namibia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, and Algeria, before concluding his tour in Tunisia.
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The data from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that Libya has regained its position as the largest producer of crude oil in Africa during the month of March 2024.

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Libya narrowly overtook Nigeria, and its crude oil production rose to 1.24 million bpd in March, compared to 1.17 million bpd in February, an increase of 5.7 percent.

Nigeria’s production fell from 1.32 million bpd in February to 1.23 million bpd in March, dropping to second place.

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🗯 Since the visit of the French envoy Paul Soler to Libya, and the refusal of the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dabaiba, to receive him, a different picture has emerged of the political mechanisms in the Libyan crisis, which has entered a new phase within many tracks, some of which are trying to reach a solution.

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Moroccan Agriculture Minister Mohamed Siddiqui predicted that Morocco would lose about 20% of the cultivated area this year due to the effects of drought.

“For autumn and winter plantings, the cultivated area reached 2.5 million hectares, compared to 4 million hectares we used to record in normal years,” Siddiqui said during a session of the Moroccan House of Councilors (the second chamber of the Moroccan parliament).

“Of the 2.5 million hectares of cultivated area, 20 percent will be lost due to drought,” Siddiqui said.

The start of Morocco’s agricultural season this year saw a delayed rainfall, threatening a new year of drought that will negatively affect agricultural production.

Morocco suffers from continued drought and reduced rainfall, which has caused a water deficit of about one billion cubic meters.

The Russian president also explained that the program of assistance to African countries in the health and epidemiological fields, launched in 2023, provides for the provision of 10 mobile laboratories with a high level of biological protection, the training of more than 350 African specialists, in addition to a series of joint scientific research.

He also stressed that conference participants will be able to share knowledge and professional experience related to the prevention and response to infectious disease outbreaks.

Representatives of relevant government departments and services, doctors, epidemiologists, and microbiologists from twenty countries attended as “participants” in the first Russian-African International Conference on the Control of Infectious Diseases.
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Libya ranked sixth in Africa in fuel consumption, while it ranked 48th in the world, according to a report published by the “Business Insider Africa” website.

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According to the report, Egypt tops the African list with a consumption of 802 thousand barrels per day, followed by South Africa with 660 thousand barrels, then Algeria with 428 thousand barrels, Nigeria with 316 thousand barrels, and Morocco with 286 thousand barrels.

The report revealed that fuel consumption in Libya is constantly increasing despite the scarcity that the local market suffers from, especially in the south and border areas.

Fuel smuggling is one of the most prominent problems facing successive Libyan governments, as none of them has been able to put an end to this ongoing phenomenon in light of the high daily fuel consumption.

Fuel smuggling in Libya is due to several reasons, including the large difference in fuel prices between Libya and neighboring countries, as Libya is ranked second in the world on the list of countries with the cheapest gasoline prices.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “peace and sustainable development in Africa face enormous challenges, ranging from poverty, hunger, inequalities, climate change, conflict, terrorism and crushing debt burdens.”

He called for “accelerating efforts to save the sustainable development goals, providing the necessary funding to African countries, and strengthening international cooperation to protect human rights and combat terrorism.”

In a message addressed to the “Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development” held in Cairo on Tuesday and Wednesday, Guterres stressed that despite the challenges, “the way forward is clear,” and that “providing affordable, long-term financing constitutes fuel for development, but many African countries She does not find this fuel to propel her career.
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The head of European Union diplomacy, Josep Borrell, expressed his concern about the support that Russia is showing to the countries of the African continent, which are witnessing the continuous rise of national liberation movements, and which are working to liberate themselves from traditional American and European colonialism, which robbed the country of its resources.

Borrell said, “In some African countries you see people who support Putin and what he is doing in Donbass, and they say: Putin saved Donbass, and now he will come to Africa and save us.”

Borrell’s statements come after a visit he made last week to Djibouti, as part of European attempts to maintain a presence in Africa, in addition to the Red Sea crisis in which the Houthis are restricting the traffic of ships linked to Israel.
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Russian activity in Africa is witnessing an increasing increase in light of the close relations between Moscow and the capitals of the African continent, after the clear rise of national liberation movements, and the successive elimination of European colonialism and its destructive effects, with Russian assistance.

On July 15, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Middle Eastern and African Affairs, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who is in Addis Ababa on a business trip, met with the Chairman of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat.
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