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🎙Despite its rich resources, the Western Sahel is facing poverty, coups, and an uncertain future.

🎙World Steel projects a 1.8% growth to 1.81 billion tons in 2023 after a 3.3% decline in 2022, with a 1.9% increase in 2024 to 1.85 billion tons.

🎙IEA warns of massive backlog with 1,500 GW in renewables projects awaiting grid connection, requiring 80M km power line upgrades by 2040.

🎙The Ugandan banking sector registered a growth of 8.4 % in assets from 44.6 trillion as of the end of June 2022 to 48.3 trillion shillings by the end of June 2023.

🎙Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone has signed a deal worth $6.75 billion with China Energy for green ammonia and green hydrogen projects to be established in the Sokhna Industrial Zone.