MSGBC Energy Investment: Senegal and Mauritania are shifting from gas discoveries to execution, with the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project already delivering first gas (Dec 2024) and first LNG (Feb 2025), plus its first LNG cargo export (Apr 2025), while Senegal pushes Yakaar-Teranga (about $7.5bn) and Mauritania advances BirAllah gas plans; Public Health Tech: A North Africa workshop in Nouakchott (Sept 1–3) is focused on strengthening and harmonizing regional disease surveillance and laboratory networks, improving national lab support, and boosting information sharing for faster outbreak detection; Security & Tech Cooperation: Mauritania’s National Security Director-General met with the head of the UAE drug enforcement authority to discuss cross-border anti-drug coordination, including using modern technologies and sharing crime patterns; Energy & Skills: Mauritania’s energy minister held talks in Algeria with Sonatrach and Sonelgaz on hydrocarbon cooperation and electricity/gas transmission and storage, including training Mauritanian engineers at Algerian institutes; Maritime Risk & Sanctions: A report says Russia’s sanctioned “shadow fleet” exploits weak African shipping registries via false flags and flag hopping to keep exporting oil; Software Market Move: The Casablanca Stock Exchange notified Morocco’s competition regulator of a plan to take exclusive control of NT Soft, an IT solutions firm serving finance, insurance, pharmacy and legal sectors.