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

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🇦🇪🇸🇦🌾Vertical farming revolution in the #UAE and #SaudiArabia

My latest article:
informa.turtl.co/story/new-ag-i…

Africa-to-Europe Value Chains:

🇲🇦🚗 #Morocco 's automotive sector
✅Employs one quarter of a million Moroccans
✅25% of 🇲🇦's GDP
✅🇪🇺 #EU 's 2 best selling car models are made in 🇲🇦

See my piece on how this is a model for more equitable🌍-🇪🇺 relations, 👇

🇯🇴🚗🔌In #Jordan , car dealers urge for more EVs charging stations

➡️Green mobility makes sense for many parts of the MENA region

🇲🇦🚗🔌On #Morocco , see my piece 👇mei.edu/publications/m…

shar.es/agpyLi via The Jordan Times

Africa-to-Europe value chains in manufacturing and agri-food production employing Africans in local value-added production and boosting African GDP growth, can reorient Africa-Europe relations towards mutual economic benefit and dignity.

My latest piece 👇

Bill Gates & Jeff Bezos-backed mining company discovers vast copper deposit in #Zambia

🇿🇲⛏️Estimated tobecome one of the world’s top three high-grade #copper mines

ft.com/content/28c36e… #metals #Mining #EVs

'Green hydrogen production in North Africa: Challenges and opportunities' See my chapter 👇

#Morocco #Algeria #Tunisia #Egypt #Hydrogene #RenewableEnergy

[Thanks Karen Young Katherine Wolff Alistair Taylor and the rest of the Middle East Institute colleagues for a job well done]

ICYMI 'Africa's maritime hydrogen highways could enrich the continent'

🌍Africa has the potential to generate $1 trillion worth of green hydrogen by 2035

The big players are:

🇲🇦 #Morocco
🇪🇬 #Egypt
🇲🇷 #Mauritania
🇳🇦 #Namibia

➡️My latest 👇
thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…

#Egypt

Egyptian military’s 4th Armored Division at the geographic area of the Suez Canal lined up, today, for war inspection by President El-Sisi and senior military commanders.

👉 The show complements the controversy that has been going on for a while about the security of…

US advises its citizens that want to leave Lebanon should do so now

#Egypt #Israel #مصر #إسرائيل

The Egyptian Army’s Spokesperson issued a short statement on the incident of IDF tank shooting on an Egyptian site near Kerem Shalom crossing:

“During the ongoing clashes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, 22/10/2023, one of the Egyptian border control…

#Qatar is all too keen to push the “honest broker” narrative. The #US & allies should not fall for this. Qatar continues to support & harbour snr #Hamas leaders. The US should impose consequences on the Qataris until they hand over the terrorists. No more business as usual. UANI

Iran-backed Houthi Forces fired at Israel over a 9 hour period - at least 4 cruise missiles and several drones were intercepted by U.S. Navy destroyer USS Carney

The Reckoning That Is Coming for Qatar - My latest for ⁦The Atlantic⁩ theatlantic.com/international/…

IMEC and the Middle Corridor

See my comments in this Nikkei Asia article by Sinan Tavsan

More on this in the future . . .

Middle East Turning Point

As I have said from Day 1, this is a regional war

Israel to evacuate northern border town of Kiryat Shmona in anticipation of major conflagration with Hezbollah

US State Dept worldwide travel caution for Americans

US Navy destroyer shot down 3 cruise missiles and several drones launched by Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen

Houthi missiles were heading north and may have been targeting Israel