Hydrocarbons: windfall in sight for African producers

as a result of the war in Ukraine, the surge in oil and gas prices could inflate the revenues of countries such as Algeria, Nigeria and Libya. 

Algeria, which has a good card to play on gas,

, which says it is ready to increase its gas exports.

Technically, Sonatrach, a state-owned hydrocarbon company, has unused capacity on the Transmed gas pipeline which could be used to increase supplies to the European market.

This gas pipeline can transport up to 32 billion m3 per year.

Le Point Afrique

Algeria could take advantage of the situation, but not in the short term.

Its gas reserves are around 2,500 billion m3.

Algeria could "put a few tens of billions of additional m3 of gas on the market", but in only a few years,

explained recently Ali Hached, former vice-president of Sonatrach, on Algerian radio. 

 for lack of investment, Algerian gas export capacities have declined over the past fifteen years. 

 in the face of this human tragedy that Ukraine is experiencing, opinions are expressed, in Africa, with passion and they are sometimes even very clear-cut 

 some hold Putin responsible for the war by denying him any right to invade a sovereign State whose borders are recognized by the UN, others accuse Westerners of having exploited and trained the little chick Ukrainian against the Russian ogre.

Le Pays

the responsibilities are shared between the international actors who failed to prevent this fratricidal and murderous war because of their geostrategic and economic interests.

And this is the place, here, to denounce the ineffectiveness of the UN Security Council, believes the newspaper, precisely caught in the trap of the interests of the great powers (…). 

we can also deplore, continues the Ouagadougou daily, that the great nations closed their eyes to the warning signs of this war by refusing to learn the lessons of history.

We know that warlike militarist regimes are always born of economic problems, as was the case in Hitler's Germany at the end of the great economic crisis of 1929. It was quite certain that the economic sanctions against Russia and the extension of NATO at the Russian borders would end up triggering a sort of paranoia in Vladimir Putin.

In any case, Le Pays

hope that the international community, so quick to give lessons to Africa, finds the means to bring the belligerents to reason in order to put an end to the suffering of the Ukrainian people.

 Mauritania-Mali: the fever rises at the border! 

However, the rapprochement between the two neighbors had been strengthened for some time,

Indeed, to avoid economic suffocation, because ostracized by the international community, Mali was counting on the Mauritanian ports to give itself some fresh air.

Mauritania, on the other hand, had opened the doors to its neighbour, not feeling concerned by the sanctions taken by ECOWAS. 

As a result, WakatSéra

these latest events could well put an end to the new idyll between the two countries, or at the very least, cause a quarrel that would not suit the authorities of the Malian transition.