An “internal financial target” of 250 billion US dollars for developing countries by 2035, plus an overarching target of 1.3 trillion US dollars per year, which includes private investment: When concrete figures appeared in the drafts for a final text for the first time at this COP29 on Friday afternoon, key negotiators from African countries […]
In a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Socialists criticize her statement to the EU Parliament that geopolitics and geoeconomics must go hand in hand. “It would be a mistake to work with our partners solely based on these interests, disregarding their basic needs and human development”, reads the letter, signed […]
It was one of Germany’s most ambitious industrial projects: Desertec was to produce large quantities of renewable energy in North Africa, connecting the electricity grids in North Africa and these with Europe. Desertec was to produce up to 15 percent of Europe’s electricity. This would have required a gigantic investment of around €400 billion. But […]
More than 25 years after the end of the Congo War, the United States is once again recognizing the global significance of Africa. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently completed a four-day trip to Africa, visiting Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola. Prior to this, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi toured the continent. […]
At Ornano‘s headquarters in Châtillon on the outskirts of Paris, no mood of crisis is visible from the outside in the days following the military coup in Niger. The lights in the offices of the French nuclear company do not stay on longer than usual. Yet the mining sites of the two companies Somaïr and […]
The Nigerian port city of Lagos is leaving German cities far behind in terms of electromobility. Chinese manufacturer Yutong Bus Co will deliver 12,000 electric buses to Lagos, surpassing the number currently in operation in many German cities. For example, Berlin currently has only around 1,500 electric buses on the roads.Yutong produces plug-in hybrid buses, […]
It has been talked about for more than 40 years and is now to become reality. Now that Morocco and Spain have overcome their diplomatic crisis, the governments are planning a project that will bring the two kingdoms closer together.At a top-level meeting this February, Madrid and Rabat agreed to build a tunnel under the […]