Vertical farming in the #MiddleEast and #Africa is forecasted to grow at a 21.7% CAGR, reaching US$6.2 billion by 2030. Find out more in👇

🇹🇳💸🇸🇦 #SaudiArabia-based International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) will lend debt-ridden #Tunisia $1.2 billion to help state firms import raw materials, esp. #Oil

Asian fertiliser producers craft a Win-Win Investment strategy for Africa The case for shifting from exporting fertilisers produced in Asia for Africa to manufacturing in Africa for Africa My latest👇 ntu.edu.sg/cas/news-event… #fertilizer

"Turkey stopped all exports and imports to and from Israel as of Thursday, sources say" Trade and business has been an anchor of #Türkiye-#Israel relations for the past 14 years The #EastMed/#MENA will take a new geopolitical turn is this ban remains long term

🇲🇦🚗💸 #Morocco's 2023 car exports = $13.7 billion

🇩🇿🇨🇳⛏️🔋 Joint #Algeria-#China exploration efforts for #lithium in Algeria's Tamanrasset and Ain Qazzam regions yields 'positive' results according to Algerian media #Batteries #EV #metals

🇲🇦🚗🔋🇨🇳 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em | #China's Zhejiang Hailiang announced plans to build a factory in #Morocco for the production of #copper materials, including sheets for #lithium electric #Batteries ➡️As predicted in my piece on 🇲🇦's Green Mobility Revolution👇

🇹🇷🐔🚫 Türkiye limits exports of #chicken meat for the rest of 2024 #Turkey's April 2024 Food Inflation Up 68.50%. ekonomist.com.tr/gida/tavuk-eti… #Turkey

"MENA-Europe Value Chain Integration in the Era of Green Transition" ➡️Why 🇮🇹 #Italy's falling behind in relations with the #MiddleEast and North #Africa | See my latest in this new ISPI volume 👇 ispionline.it/en/publication…

🇨🇳🌍⛏️ #China about to acquire another #copper mine in Africa as 🇦🇪#UAE's IRH pulls out of race to buy the Lubambe mine in Zambia ➡️🇿🇲 #Zambia is #Africa's 2nd largest copper producer

🇬🇷⚡️🇦🇪 #UAE's Masdar buys #Greece's renewables company Terna Energy ➡️One of the largest transactions  in the European Union’s renewable energy sector #renewables

🇪🇬🇨🇳 ICYMI #China’s CSCEC opened a #steel structures factory in #Egypt, as I predicted in this 2023 piece 👇 ➡️Watch formore Chinese investment in Egypt

Scramble for phosphorus continues . . . 🇪🇬🇫🇷🇩🇪Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority's embarks on project with #France's SOFRECO, Prayon and #Germany's Thyssenkrupp to increase the concentration of low-quality #phosphate ore See my NTU Singapore article to find out where 🇮🇳 #India is

Happy to unwind for an evening at L'Abri in Casablanca's Anfa neighborhood. . . . . . look for more 🇲🇦#Morocco-related publications from during the summer

🇮🇳🌍 #India looks to 🇸🇳#Sengal to prevent a phosphorus supply shock | See my piece below on how India is engaged elsewhere in #Africa in #fertilizer production👇

🇨🇩⛏️ 65% of the new global #copper reserves identified in 2023 are in DR Congo 🇨🇩 v. 🇨🇱 #DRC is gaining on Chile #mining

🇹🇷 Turkiye's Economy Coordination Board (EKK) says inflation will fall in H2 2024 . . . stay tuned

🇸🇦⚓️🇨🇳 #SaudiArabia's PIF give $1.65 billion contract to #China's SANY to upgrade operations at King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam ➡️King Abdulaziz Port is the 3rd largest port in the #MENA region and the 2nd busiest in the Gulf region

🇹🇷🇦🇪 #UAE's Mubadala gains controlling interest in #Turkiye's Getir after $250 million infusion

🇪🇺🇩🇰 ⚠️ Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture ➡️ A very worrying sign for milk and meat inflation moving forward