Mauritania: A Calm corner in the Sahel
While much of the Sahel grapples with coups and insurgencies, Mauritania has emerged as a example of relative stability. Mali,
Morocco's Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali, and her Mauritanian counterpart for Energy and Petroleum, Mohamed Ould Khaled, met in Rabat this week to discuss energy security, and to explore electricity interconnection. Local media reports highlighted that the two countries also looked at ways to make progress on key projects such as the Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline and the development of green hydrogen.
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