Mining
May 5, 2022
Africa’s role in the ongoing global energy transition
The strategic shifts in global energy markets are visible: on the one hand, net energy importers are forced to diversify sources of fossil fuels in order to maintain the stability of supplies; on the other hand, they are moving at an accelerated pace towards the…
Rosatom
January 19, 2022
License documentation for Rosatom’s nuclear power plant project in Egypt has been handed over to the regulator
Rosatom reported that on December 30, 2021 Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA) handed over the package of documents to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) which are required for receipt of license for construction of El Dabaa NPP power units 3 and…
Algeria
May 25, 2021
Marina Hamada:”In Africa, one has to get behind one’s product”
On Africa Day we remember how during the time of the USSR thousands of Soviet citizens lived and worked on the continent. By the beginning of the nineties, the majority had returned. How do those who remained live there now? In 2019, we interviewed a…
SDG 8
May 8, 2021
Russian Energy Exports to Africa Hit $1.5 bln
Russian energy exports to Africa in 2020 amounted to $1.5 billion and mainly consisted of black coal, oil and petroleum products. According to the Federal Customs Service of Russia, exports to Africa accounted for 12% of total Russian energy exports. Petroleum products and black coal,…
Oil&Gas
March 2, 2021
NJ Ayuk: “Russian Companies Have Relied A Lot On State to Drive Things”
Reuters recently quoted you saying, “Africans want to get married, Russians want just to date”. This caused a lot of…
Energy
February 8, 2021
Russian Coal Supplies to Morocco Rise to 87% of Market
During the first 11 months of 2020 and 2019 Morocco’s imports of coal stood equally at 9.2 MT, Argus reports. Simultaneously, the proportion of supplies from Russia has increased from 57% to 87% year on a year, reaching 8 MT in 2020. Russia’s dominance was…
