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    • African Energy Week (AEW) 2024: Petrosen Targets Final Investment Decision (FID) for Yakaar-Teranga in 2025, Seeks Third-Party Partner
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African Energy Week (AEW) 2024: Petrosen Targets Final Investment Decision (FID) for Yakaar-Teranga in 2025, Seeks Third-Party Partner

Speaking at an ‘Invest in MSGBC Energies’ session at AEW: Invest in African Energies 2024, Petrosen’s Thierno Ly announced plans to take FID for the Yakaar-Teranga project in 2025

The Yakaar-Teranga project – situated offshore Senegal – is expected to make a Final Investment Decision (FID) in 2025, with production starting between 2028 and 2029, said Petrosen Director General Thierno Ly.   Speaking at a Technip Energies-sponsored Invest in MSGBC Energies panel discussion at African Energy Week: Invest in African…

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    • Frank Kretschmer, General Manager of ExxonMobil Mozambique and Dave Campbell, Senior Vice President at bp, Mauritania and Senegal
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ExxonMobil, bp Showcase Major African Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Projects at African Energy Week (AEW) 2024

ExxonMobil is targeting FID for its Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique by early 2026, while bp approaches the startup phase of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG development in Senegal and Mauritania

Global energy majors ExxonMobil and bp affirmed their commitment to oil and gas investment in Africa, expressing interest in forging new partnerships to capitalize on rising energy demand during keynote addresses at the African Energy Week: Invest in African Energies conference. ExxonMobil is currently spearheading the Rovuma LNG project in…

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
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Joint Meeting of the Energy and Hydrocarbons Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Member States, Extended to Include Morocco and Mauritania, on the Nigeria-Morocco African Atlantic Gas Pipeline Project

The project would help in supplying gas to Morocco, 13 ECOWAS countries and Europe, and promote regional integration of the economies of the ECOWAS sub-region

The ECOWAS Ministers of Energy and Hydrocarbons extended to Morrocco and Mauritania have adopted the version of the intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and the Host State Agreement (HGA) revised by experts, as well as the Framework Document for the establishment of the ECOWAS Renewable and Energy Efficiency Facility (EREEEF). Also adopted…

United Arab Emirates, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) Expresses Solidarity with Mauritania and Dispatches Urgent Aid to Communities Impacted by Floods

The UAE’s efforts are part of its humanitarian and developmental role in providing urgent relief to countries worldwide during crises and natural disasters

The United Arab Emirates has announced the provision of urgent humanitarian aid for families impacted by floods that occurred in several states in Mauritania which caused significant damage to property and forced thousands of citizens to evacuate their villages and homes. The UAE expressed its solidarity with the Islamic Republic…

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
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First Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus S.Lukashevich receives copies of the Credentials of the Ambassadors of Algeria, Burundi, Kuwait and Mauritania

The sides confirmed mutual interest in holding the first meeting of the Joint Belarusian-Algerian Intergovernmental Commission and discussed the schedule of visits for the near future

On October 30, 2024 the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Sergey Lukashevich, received copies of the Credentials of the Ambassadors of Algeria, Burundi, Kuwait and Mauritania.  During the meeting with the Ambassador of Algeria to the Republic of Belarus (non-resident), Boumediene Gennad, the parties…

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    • Mohamed Ould Khaled, Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Mauritania
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Mauritania’s Petroleum and Energy Minister Joins African Energy Week 2024 (AEW) Ahead of First Gas Production

Mauritania is on track for first gas production this year, creating strategic investment opportunities across the entire gas value chain

The first phase of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) LNG project – situated on the maritime border of Mauritania and Senegal – will begin production by the end of 2024. Ahead of this milestone, Mauritania’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Mohamed Ould Khaled has joined the African Energy Week (AEW):…

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
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Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Trains Mauritanian Women Business Leaders to Seize African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Opportunities, Adopt Sustainable Practices

In addition to Mauritanian women-led SMEs, the project will soon be extended to their Libyan counterparts

The UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Subregional Office for North Africa launched today, in partnership with the Mauritanian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, a capacity-building workshop for women leaders of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The workshop is taking place in Nouakchott on 17-19 September 2024 with a focus…

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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) reviews the environmental performance of Mongolia for the second time

The second review of Mongolia will measure progress made and considers challenges encountered in the areas of air quality, water management, biodiversity and protected areas, soil protection, waste and chemicals management and greening the economy

After Morocco (2022) and Mauritania (2023), the UNECE Environmental Performance Reviews (EPR) continue to reach beyond the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Mongolia has requested UNECE to undertake its second review, following the first in 2017. Today, a multidisciplinary team of 17 international experts, met…

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Transforming lives in Mauritania through adaptive social protection

With nearly 30% of the population living below the poverty line, Mauritania is now committed to promoting social protection as a solution to the socioeconomic challenges facing the country

With nearly 30% of the population living below the poverty line, Mauritania is now committed to promoting social protection as a solution to the socioeconomic challenges facing the country; More than 200,000 poor households registered in the Social Registry database are benefiting from the Tekavoul National Social Transfer Program, one of…

Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of Namibia
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Xi Jinping Meets with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani

Xi Jinping appreciated Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani's active contributions as rotating chair of the African Union to the preparations for the FOCAC Beijing Summit, and expressed China's willingness to work closely with Mauritania

On the evening of September 3, 2024, President Xi Jinping met with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani, who is in China for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The two heads of state announced the elevation…