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Mauritania
Three firms vie for contract to build Mauritania's second submarine cable

Sonatel, the Senegalese subsidiary of French giant Orange, Mauritania Submarine Link Consortium and Ireland-based EllaLink are competing for the contract to build Mauritania’s second submarine cable link. [...]

Published on 10.11.2023 at 04:40 GMT

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Mauritania
EllaLink
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Mauritania
EllaLink wins €42m contract for second submarine cable

Late last year, EllaLink won the international bid to lay a second submarine internet cable to Mauritania.

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Mauritania
Mauritania employers' union boss increases electricity sector activities

Zine El Abidine Cheikh Ahmed recently submitted a $17m bid to the Société Mauritanienne d'Electricité (SOMELEC) for a major electrification programme for a handful of areas in eastern Mauritania, through his company Bis-TP.

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West Africa
Gide, Mazars and Titane compete for fibre optics feasibility study

French firms Gide Loyrette Nouel, Mazars and Titane are currently bidding for a feasibility study contract for an extension of Mauritania's backbone, a major project aiming to equip the country with fibre optics.

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Rajoelina pulls Eiffage off Sahofika dam project

After years of negotiations between the Madagascan president and the French construction company, the Sahofika hydroelectric power station project is being put out to a new call for tenders.

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Windhoek's green hydrogen hopes dashed in Washington

When African leaders attended a summit meeting in Washington earlier this month, Namibian President Hage Geingob and his ministerial entourage highlighted his ambition to turn his country into a major exporter of green hydrogen. But unlike Europeans, his hosts seemed less than enthusiastic.

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Namibian President Hage Geingob in Windhoek on 5 December 2022

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Egypt's desalination plant projects are running dry

As Ethiopia continues to fill the GERD dam, threatening as it does so to reduce the flow of the Nile River, Egypt is looking to diversify its water supply. But these projects are still marginal, and plans for desalination plants have been scaled back due to the economic crisis.

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Mauritania
French operator Orange set to connect the country's overlooked interior

Faced with a failing internet network that has not been adequately rolled out in the country's interior, Nouakchott is working with French operator Orange on a broadband cable project estimated to cost nearly €150m.

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Mauritania EllaLink wins €42m contract for second submarine cable

Mauritania Mauritania employers' union boss increases electricity sector activities

West Africa Gide, Mazars and Titane compete for fibre optics feasibility study

Madagascar Rajoelina pulls Eiffage off Sahofika dam project

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Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Mauritania
Three firms vie for contract to build Mauritania's second submarine cable

Mauritania
EllaLink wins €42m contract for second submarine cable

Mauritania
Mauritania employers' union boss increases electricity sector activities

West Africa
Gide, Mazars and Titane compete for fibre optics feasibility study

Madagascar
Rajoelina pulls Eiffage off Sahofika dam project

Namibia, United States
Windhoek's green hydrogen hopes dashed in Washington

Egypt, Ethiopia
Egypt's desalination plant projects are running dry

Mauritania
French operator Orange set to connect the country's overlooked interior