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Israel sees Egypt’s LNG capabilities

as reason for continued co-operation

AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL will continue to work with Egypt to government was negotiating with the EU as
boost natural gas exports to Europe, as Egypt a whole rather than individual countries. She
represents the country’s best option for pro- also indicated that the rise in exports would not
ducing LNG, Energy Minister Karine Elharrar come at the expense of local consumers.
told Israel Hayom in an interview published on “All European countries are interested. They
August 12. are deeply worried about the winter, and they
Elharrar explained that Israel’s caretaker want to store gas,” she remarked. “But so we
government, led by the Yesh Atid party, had aren’t dealing with each country separately, we
been willing to join with Brussels and Cairo in decided to deal with the European Union in a
mid-June in signing a tripartite memorandum concentrated manner. At any rate, we don’t have
of understanding (MoU) on raising gas supplies enough gas to give to every country. We are
to Europe because of the access that Israel had giving them a little bit in the face of the existing
already gained to Egypt’s LNG plants. Cooper- shortage.” ™
ation with Egypt allows Israel to overcome its
lack of a midstream connection to European
gas markets, she said.
“We have no gas pipeline [to Europe]. We
can only pipe gas to Egypt and Jordan,” she told
Israel Hayom. “To pipe gas to Europe, the gas
needs to be liquefied, and Egypt can do that.
We don’t have the machines. We’ll pipe a larger
quantity of gas to Egypt, and it will be shipped to
Europe via Egypt.”
The increase in deliveries to Egypt will be
effected via the construction of a new pipeline,
she added.
Elharrar indicated that Israel was prepared
to increase the amount of gas it was supply-
ing to European buyers but stressed that the Egypt, Israel and the EU signed a gas MoU in June 2022 (Photo: European Union)

EU to provide $15mn to African troops

fighting insurgents in Mozambique

AFRICA THE EU plans to provide $15.3mn worth of force,” including radars, mine detectors, boats
military support by 2024 to an African mili- and medical supplies, the EU document said, in
tary force that is fighting Islamist insurgents in spite of SADC’s need for hard weaponry.
northern Mozambique. The jihadists, who started attacking civilians
Internal documents obtained by Reuters and government positions in October 2017,
showed that funding is well above $2.9mn that have in recent months threatened natural gas
the bloc has made available to the troops picked and LNG projects under development by Euro-
from some of the 16 countries of the Southern pean oil companies, including the Mozambique
African Development Community (SADC), of LNG scheme led by TotalEnergies (France) and
which Mozambique is member. the Coral South LNG scheme led by Eni (Italy).
The news agency reported on August 16, the The two projects, as well as the Rovuma LNG
EU has already pledged to provide the country’s scheme led by ExxonMobil (US), are expected to
army with an additional $45mn worth of finan- help ease the energy shortage in Europe, which
cial support. The equipment would be limited is limiting use of Russian gas after Moscow’s
to “equipment not designed to deliver lethal February invasion of Ukraine.

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