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...Washington is reviewing giving $250mn of financing to help build the Angolan leg of the Lobito Corridor railway that will help the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia export commodities....
...The EU is Kenya’s biggest export market with more than 20 per cent of the country’s total exports to the world, according to a 2021 European Commission document....
...The EU and US also made a separate announcement on the sidelines of the summit on a trans-African corridor between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Angola, aimed at improving trade in raw materials...
...The commission said “unilateral national measures in the form of export restrictions, or levies at cross-border exit points put energy solidarity at risk”....
...Although Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, promised that the EU would phase out Russian imports by 2027, there were no sanctions on Russian gas exports until December 2023....
...monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the first commemorative stamps being issued in Great Britain....
...It contains the seaports at the mouth of the Congo river from which Belgian colonisers siphoned off the exploited riches of the country and it was where Joseph Kasavubu, the Democratic Republic of Congo’...
...And a “temporary pause” to the authorisation of new US LNG exports announced in January only bolsters the idea that Europe cannot abandon a relationship with Russia — however troubled the marriage — for...
...Aid agencies warned of a humanitarian catastrophe as armed rebels close in on Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, risking a wider regional war....
...Republic of Congo....
...In another sense, I think the Republic of Congo is not a very densely populated country....
...One key measure of UK trade performance is “trade openness”, calculated by taking exports and imports and dividing them by real GDP....
...Von der Leyen has also been pushing heavily for a global carbon price, ahead of the EU’s own carbon border tax coming into force in October, which will affect the import of goods from the heavy polluting...
...The Big Read From the Democratic Republic of Congo to Indonesia, the handful of countries that dominate the production of metals critical to the green transition are seeing their fortunes transform....
...The red-brown landscape of Tenke-Fungurume, one of the world’s largest copper and cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is covered by tens of thousands of dusty sacks....
...A big one of these is the EU’s carbon border tax (CBAM, for short) which from last October has required EU businesses to start collecting data on the embedded carbon in a range of products they import, including...
...Then, starting in 2026, companies will begin buying and surrendering CBAM certificates based on the carbon footprint of their imports. Payments under CBAM will be phased in over a decade until 2035....
...The leaders of South Africa, Egypt, Senegal, Zambia, Uganda and the Republic of Congo will travel to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, and then to Moscow the following day for...
...The Democratic Republic of Congo said it was losing almost $1bn a year in minerals that were being illegally smuggled into Rwanda, as it restated its call for international sanctions to be placed on the...
...But in the past 18 months it has fast-tracked a number of floating LNG import facilities....
...A race between European and Chinese energy groups to lock in shipments of liquefied natural gas from the US is driving investment in a range of export projects that will boost a market facing a potential...
...Nikos Christodoulides, the Cypriot president, believes that the region could eventually provide 25bn cubic meters a year of gas for export....
...In late January, Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia wrote a joint letter to the EU, calling for an “urgent response” to curb the impact of a “significant increase” on Ukrainian...
...Given that many are mined in developing countries — cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, nickel in Indonesia — it’s not fanciful to hear echoes of the race for raw materials (spices, cotton, rubber...
...of our goods and services exports still go to the EU”....
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