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Energy access and the Sahel question
Europe looks north across the Mediterranean; Algeria also looks south. Energy is central to both gazes.
Any serious account of North African energy has to look in two directions at once — north to European markets, and south to a Sahel where access itself is still the headline issue.
Development and export are not competing agendas. Reliable regional energy underpins the stability that export relationships depend on.
Access in the south and exports to the north are the same strategy seen from two ends.
Sources
Primary sources, checked against the public record.
- S01UNDP — Energy4Sahel
- S02African Development Bank
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