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Nigeria is set to provide Germany with two percent of its liquified natural gas under an historic new energy deal signed on Tuesday. In return, Berlin will boost investment in renewable technologies in Nigeria. Nigeria and Germany have agreed on a deal for Africa's largest oil producer to supply more gas to Germany while Berlin will also invest $500 million in renewable energy projects, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Tuesday. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by Nigeria's Riverside LNG project, which works in the country's Niger Delta, and Germany's Johannes Schuetze Energy Import, Nigeria will export 850,000 tons of liquified natural gas (LNG) per year to Germany, increasing in future to 1.2 million tons. The first deliveries, which will represented 2% of Germany's total LNG imports, are expected to leave Nigeria in 2026. "This is a further step towards diversifying German gas imports," said Johannes Schuetze, chairma...

  Many of the famous Benin Bronzes pillaged by British colonial officers in 1897 are made of brass manillas from the German Rhineland, new research shows. For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins of metals used for the famous brass sculptures and plaques pillaged during Britain’s 1897 colonial capture of the Kingdom of Benin (present-day Nigeria). The vast majority of the Benin Bronzes were pillaged during that initial raid, before the UK took over the brass trade in West Africa. There are over 3,000 Benin Bronzes in total, but most are displayed in European and North American institutions — like the Ethnological Museum of Berlin and the British Museum in London . Only a few are currently held in museums in Nigeria. Benin bronze metal source a mystery Researchers have long suspected that the brass used to create the impressive sculptures was transported to Benin via Portuguese trade routes in the 15th century, but they haven’t been able to pinpoint where the met...

  US-Präsident Joe Biden bei seiner Rede auf der Weltklimakonferenz in Ägypten Klima-Ruckrede vom US-Präsidenten! Joe Biden (79) hat bei der Weltklimakonferenz im ägyptischen Scharm el-Scheich vor einer existenzgefährdenden Erderhitzung gewarnt. Durch die fortschreitende Klimakrise sei das „Leben des Planeten“ in Gefahr, sagte Biden am Freitag vor dem Konferenzplenum. Die USA spielen als größte Volkswirtschaft und zweitgrößter Treibhausgasemittent der Welt eine entscheidende Rolle im Kampf gegen die Erderhitzung. Sein eigenes Land sieht Biden auf einem guten Weg. In seiner Rede erklärte er: „Wir werden unsere Emissionsziele bis 2030 erreichen.“ Bis 2030 wollen die USA ihre Treibhausemissionen um 50 bis 52 Prozent im Vergleich zum Jahr 2005 senken. Biden erklärte: „Wir eilen voran, um unseren Teil dazu beizutragen, die Klimahölle abzuwenden, vor der der UN-Generalsekretär Anfang dieser Woche so leidenschaftlich gewarnt hat.“ UN-Generalsekretär António Guterres hatte am Montag bei de...