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President El-Sisi Receives India’s Prime Minister at Ittihadia Palace

Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received at Ittihadia Palace the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, who is on a state visit to Egypt, the first of its kind. A spokesman for the Presidency Counselor Ahmed Fahmy said the two leaders held talks at the summit level, during which they confirmed the distinct joint historical […]

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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation and Second Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement with Cabo Verde

The IMF Executive Board completed the second review under the 36-month Extended Credit Facility with Cabo Verde, providing the country with access to SDR 4.50 million (about US$ 6.00 million); Cabo Verde’s performance under the program is strong. The economy rebounded strongly in 2022 growing 17.7 percent; Cabo Verde remains vulnerable to external shocks and

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TotalEnergies denounces dissemination by Greenpeace of false and misleading information on greenhouse gas emissions

Aramco and TotalEnergies award contracts for $11bn Amiral project

Aramco and TotalEnergies have awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the $11 billion “Amiral” complex, a future world scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A signing ceremony took place in Dhahran attended by Amin H. Nasser, Aramco President and CEO, and Patrick Pouyanné, TotalEnergies Chairman

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Olam Agri’s Seeds for the Future Wins Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award 2023

Olam Agri (https://www.OlamAgri.com/) in Nigeria, a leading agribusiness in food, feed and fibre, has been recognised for its impactful sustainability investment. The agribusiness’ Seeds for the Future (SFTF) initiative emerged as a Sustainability Initiative of the Year at the African Food Awards 2023, held on June 16 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Africa Food Awards recognises

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Morocco/Spain: Agony goes on for families of missing and dead as Melilla cover-up continues

Families of the dead and missing are trapped in limbo as their attempts to find out what happened to their loved ones and efforts to ensure justice, truth and reparation are being impeded in an apparent cover-up by Spanish and Moroccan authorities, said Amnesty International on the eve of the first anniversary of the deadly

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Invictus CEO to Expand on Upstream, Investment Dialogue at African Energy Week

Scott Macmillan, CEO of independent upstream oil and gas company, Invictus Energy, will participate at this year’s edition of the African Energy Week (AEW) conference and exhibition – Africa’s premier event for the energy sector – which will take place on 16-20 October 2023 in Cape Town. Following a successful AEW 2022 edition where Macmillan

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OPEC President to Drive Upstream Oil and Gas Investment into Equatorial Guinea at African Energy Week 2023

Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons and OPEC President Antonio Oburu Ondo is taking the lead in an upstream investment drive in Equatorial Guinea, positioning the country as the perfect destination for exploration activities. As a keynote speaker at the upcoming African Energy Week (AEW) 2023 conference in Cape Town from October 16-20, Minister

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UNGA 79: African Development Bank calls on DFI’s to put peace into action to promote peace and stability in Africa

African govts, partners to support Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa with $500m

On the sidelines of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, African leaders, investors and development partners, including the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), have highlighted their steadfast support for the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa as it advances toward a first close of $500 million for green infrastructure projects in

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The United States Announces $260m in Additional Funding to Address Global Food Security Crisis

Today, while in Tanzania, USAID Administrator and Feed the Future Global Coordinator Samantha Power announced an additional $260 million to surge support for the U.S. government response to the global food security crisis. This comes at a critical time as new interlocking and compounding shocks exacerbate existing food needs, with an estimated 768 million people

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