Mauritania has completed the first phase of an expansion of its liquid fuel storage infrastructure in Nouakchott – part of an effort to reduce vulnerability to volatile global fuel prices amid an already constrained domestic power market. The government announced that 23,000 m³ of new storage tanks are now operational and an additional 100,000 m³ of capacity is under construction, lifting total storage to approximately 123,000 m³ from about 60,000 m³ previously. This expansion comes at a time when African fuel supply…
