"Nigeria will become a regional and global powerhouse in fertilisers," President Muhammadu Buhari said last Wednesday in Abuja, and he seems to be well on his way to realising this prediction. Indeed, the President has just announced the creation of a new $1.3 billion chemical platform to produce ammonia and...

The Republic of Mali and the World Bank signed on 23 March 2021 a financing agreement for the project entitled "Improving the quality and results of education for all (MIQRA)". This is a symbolic envelope of 140.70 million USD, according to information relayed by Financial Afrik....

Eni announces that it has closed the agreement signed last December with the Arab Republic of Egypt (ARE), the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) and the Spanish company Naturgy that will restart the Damietta liquefaction plant in Egypt, settle Union Fenosa Gas and...

Botswana Diamonds (BOD) has entered into a cooperation agreement to fund exploration of its prospecting licence assets in Botswana with Diamexstrat Botswana (DESB). Diamexstrat Botswana, in turn has an alliance agreement with Burgundy Diamond Mines. Botswana Diamonds (BOD)’s prospecting assets comprise the recently acquired Sekaka Diamonds Exploration database and Prospecting...

The World Health Organization and Canada signed an agreement to ensure functional health services in the context of COVID-19 in Ethiopia. Through this agreement, Canada will provide WHO a grant amounting to 9.9 million Canadian dollars to strengthen the primary health care capacity to deliver essential health services, particularly for...

Somalia has a 30 years-long civil war that allowed companies to get deals with the local armed government concerning oil exploitation. A newly promulgated Petroleum Law, takes a dim view of those agreements. It concerned most exploitation agreements of the country. Deals will have to be renegotiate....