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Algeria, Niger, Nigeria
Algeria and Nigeria maintain Trans-Saharan pipeline illusion to counter rival Moroccan project

Ministerial meetings, reassuring reminders, a technical study... Official communications from both Algiers and Abuja about the progress of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline are in stark contrast to the security reality on the ground. Both countries play this down in a bid to outdo a rival Nigeria-Morocco project, which is just as hypothetical. [...]

Published on 14.12.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Algeria, Niger, Nigeria
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Engie and Arnergy Solar to hike prices after World Bank ends subsidies

Algeria
With his job on the line, Sonatrach's CEO hunts for support

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Bazoum struggles to emancipate himself from predecessor Issoufou

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The all-powerful Niger Delta leaders at the heart of the country's oil and political crises

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