🌐Weekly News Digest [ February 9 – February 15 ]
Last week, the mining conference in Cape Town became the first high-level venue to criticize American expansion into Africa - but what else happened?
💡Here are the key highlights:
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— South Africa’s Minister of Resources sharply criticizes his Congolese counterpart
— Washington urged an Australian mining firm AVZ to sell its major lithium project to a US company
🇱🇾 Libya
— Libya’s fails its first oil license auction in 17 years
🇲🇱 Mali
— The Malian government establishes a new state-owned mining company
— Mali approves a 10-year extension of Canadian gold miner's license
🇳🇪 Niger
— Niger’s military repels an attack by MPLJ militants on Chinese oil facilities
— Niger is ready to return the uranium confiscated from the French
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— Nigerian company loses asset in Equatorial Guinea
— Dangote Refinery reaches its design capacity for the first time
— US lawmakers introduce a bill claiming that Chinese illegal miners are paying Fulani militant groups
🇿🇦 South Africa
— Mining Indaba Conference concludes in Cape Town
🌍 Global
— State Department reveals the US strategy for Africa
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🙈 After the ban on accepting organic waste, Bali authorities faced an unexpected consequence: residents began massively burning trash right in their own yards
ℹ️ The decision to restrict organic waste intake was made to accelerate the transition to village-level waste processing systems. Now the island’s largest landfill only accepts non-organic and residual waste. The reason is critical overload: up to 65% of Bali’s waste is organic with high moisture content, leading to methane emissions, unpleasant odors, and rapid overfilling of the site.
🔥 However, in practice, the ban has triggered a wave of uncontrolled waste burning. Lacking sufficient recycling infrastructure, local residents have resorted to the simplest method of disposal – fire.
#rules@BaliNews
🌱 Bali’s main landfill stopped taking organic waste (April 2026) and will fully close by August
👮♀️ Police are monitoring the site, but short-term issues like illegal dumping and river pollution may increase during the transition.
🚮 Tourists: you might notice more trash in some areas – travel responsibly.
#rules@BaliNews
🪧Bali installs signs with rules of behavior on the island
📰 The Department of Tourism of Bali province is concerned about the number of violations of the rules of behavior on the island by tourists. Now it is intensifying the installation of information signs with infographics explaining the rules of behavior on the island – Do's and Don'ts.
📍 The plan is to install these signs at 10 key locations in Kuta, Changgu, Seminyak, Uluwatu, Tanah Lote and Bedugul where the chance of reading the rules will be high.
🤞 This is expected to reduce the number of violations so often committed by foreign tourists.
What Do's should be followed first of all?
@BaliNews
#tourism#rules
👮♂️Governor to take firm and tough action against foreign tourists who behave badly while in Bali
📰 The statements come after an American national was arrested and deported after going on a rampage in a hospital on the island under the influence of drugs.
🇺🇸 The 27-year-old US citizen, known by his initials MM, tested positive for drugs, though was deported from Indonesia without criminal prosecution as ‘no evidence’ was found to charge him with drug possession.
❌ He has been added to the blacklist and will be denied entry to Indonesia in the future.
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#rules#goodnews