W. Gyude Moore
@gyude_moore · Africa
W. Gyude Moore is followed by The State of Israel for research and subject expertise coverage across the Africa chapter.
Senegal has 113 oil and gas blocks, Diouf said, adding that only four of them are already under contract. “The remaining 109 will be put on the market,” he told a TV channel late on Wednesday. https://t.co/9ahUBpdutk
“Delivering a keynote address at the 2026 World Power Battery Conference in Yibin, Sichuan Province, Zeng said more than 600 new vehicle models had been launched in China during 2026, a pace he described as roughly three launches per day.” LAWD!!
“The dismal US birth rate has left schools fighting over a dwindling pool of potential students…smaller, lesser-known institutions have endured years of declining enrollments and shrinking income, with no obvious solution in sight.”
1 in 3. How does one build prosperity in place where a third of the population knows someone who was kidnapped in the last five years? This is tragic
"The administration has resumed spending and has even begun issuing some new awards. Congress has budgeted funding for a program with much of the scale and breadth of 2024 and earlier. In essence, the U.S. is now operating an aid program without an aid agency."
Give everyone money, and let them do whatever they want with it: A project in Africa wants to show how aid might work in future https://t.co/gfhaHpcuVx
"The Canadians also pressed the United States for a level of certainty that the deal would not be scrapped overnight by the Trump administration. But the United States maintained that it would retain the power to change tariff policy against Canada..." https://t.co/wqOjdDN3ri
"On Wednesday last week, the carrier said fuel costs had risen 72% in the first half of 2026 due to the Middle East conflict, with fuel accounting for as much as half of its total costs. The conflict had also delayed deliveries of spare parts..." https://t.co/FqMPn781tY
“…working to assemble a counteroffer…” So nothing was forthcoming, there was no inherent value in that level of engagement. Its only purpose is in opposition to China. It is not hard to see why China by default is the partner of choice a wide range of areas
"The TGA is...money is going to concrete things, like running the US government, or there as a backup in case of a catastrophic market breakdown. It’s not idle financial firepower sitting there for Treasury secretaries that want to try their hand at bond trading again."
China Chengxin International Credit Rating Co., Ltd. (CCXI) has affirmed African Export-Import Bank’s (Afreximbank) AAA issuer credit rating with a Stable outlook for the second consecutive year. https://t.co/tWPb9r6mI5
IEA’s Birol names new drivers of electricity demand -“We are entering the age of electricity. Electricity demand is growing almost three times faster than total energy demand,” Birol said. https://t.co/P9D8hxtOlc
Virtually everyone in this small village knows someone who’s died of liver cancer. Doctors blame peanuts https://t.co/9nQ7wpF3lH