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The Bahamas says it will refinance $300 million of its external debt to free up more than $120 million for marine conservation projects and climate change mitigation

Its trip that spring came as Western authorities were frantically trying to piece together the network to which it belonged: one of shadowy ships with hidden owners on whom powerful Russians relied to transport the nation's valuable oil. But by a quirk of the shipping industry, the Jaguar had ties to the West. The tanker flew the flag of St. Kitts and Nevis, which has its maritime registry just outside London — some 20 miles from the very British authorities who chase Russia's assets around the world and chart its oil shipments.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Scattered across the ocean floor are trillions of lumps of nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese. Companies have long wanted to mine them: these “critical minerals" are needed in vast quantities to electrify the global economy and cut dependence on fossil fuels.

New Ethereum-based meme token Dogecoin20 (DOGE20) has passed the $240,000 mark in its presale, with the coin’s innovative take on Dogecoin-related memes quickly winning over investors.

In August, Ali Bongo, then-president of the Central African nation of Gabon, made a startling revelation to a top White House aide: During a meeting at his presidential palace, Bongo admitted he had secretly promised Chinese leader Xi Jinping that Beijing could station military forces on Gabon’s Atlantic Ocean coast. Alarmed, U.S. principal deputy national security adviser Jon Finer urged Bongo to retract the offer, according to an American national security official.

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world trade for weeks with attacks on ships passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea in what they say is a response to Israel's war in Gaza. The United States shot down four drones headed towards a US destroyer in the southern Red Sea and launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said. 1.

crude oil tanker in the Red Sea reported that it was hit by an attack drone fired by Houthi militants, sending out a distress call to a US warship in the area, the US military said Saturday. According to the US military, they received reports from two ships in the Southern Red Sea that they were under attack. The USS Laboon reported distress signals from a Norwegian-operated chemical/oil tanker and a Gabon-owned, Indian-flagged crude oil tanker. The US military says that the Norwegian tanker, Blaamanen, reported a near miss from a Houthi one-way attack drone with no injuries or damage reported, while the Indian tanker, Saibaba, reported a hit but no injuries.

United States shot down four drones headed towards a U.S. destroyer in the southern Red Sea and launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said.

Red Sea and launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said. «These attacks represent the 14th and 15th attacks on commercial shipping by Houthi militants since Oct.

Fortescue’s flagship iron ore division has made a slow start to the new financial year, and the company will need to raise its export rate over the next nine months if it is to achieve a fifth consecutive export record.

Bond deals arranged by Credit Suisse and Bank of America Corp. in connection with debt swaps for emerging-market issuers are facing renewed scrutiny, after the International Capital Market Association issued new labeling guidelines.

Fortescue’s global growth executive, Julie Shuttleworth, will meet the new leaders of Gabon “imminently” in the wake of last month’s military coup.

(This Sept. 7 story has been corrected to fix AFC's ownership structure based on updated guidance from the AFC in paragraph 3)

The era of France’s arm-twisting interventionism in Africa may finally be over

London | A military coup in Gabon has sent a tremor through Fortescue Metals Group and its $US200 million ($310 million) plan to build a huge iron ore mine in the resource-rich central African country.

Ali Bongo's third-term victory in a disputed election. The military intervention, marking the eighth such instance in West and Central Africa since 2020, has raised concerns about the erosion of democratic progress in the region. With echoes of recent military takeovers in nearby countries like Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso, the situation highlights the fragility of political stability and the complex challenges facing the African continent.

By Danilo Masoni

AFP. -Bongo's son and close adviser Noureddin Bongo Valentin, his chief of staff Ian Ghislain Ngoulou as well as his deputy, two other presidential advisers and the two top officials in the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) "have been arrested,", according to the military official statement -They are accused of treason, embezzlement, corruption and falsifying the president's signature, among other allegations, the statement added -A country of just 2.3 million people, Gabon has been ruled by the Bongo family for more than 55 out of its 63 years since independence from France in 1960 -Notably, another group of mutinous soldiers attempted a coup in January 2019, while Bongo was in Morocco recovering from a stroke, but was quickly overpowered. -Paris maintains a military presence in many of its former territories -- including Gabon where it has 370 soldiers permanently deployed, some in the capital Libreville, according to the French defence ministry website -According to reports, Omar Bongo was one of France's closest allies in the post-colonial era and his son has long been a regular in Paris, where his family owns an extensive real estate portfolio that is being investigated by anti-corruption magistrates.

Gabon coup: A group of senior military officers in Gabon claimed they had seized power in the early hours of Wednesday. This came minutes after the Central African state's election body announced that President Ali Bongo Ondimba, 64, was declared winner of an election marred by fears of violence. As per media reports, The officers claimed to speak for all of Gabon's security and military forces on the television station Gabon 24.