TOGO : Lomé’s delicate bid for military and diplomatic balance between Moscow and the West
It is midday in Défalé. Every day, a minibus bumps through the village on the National 1 road in the northeast of Togo. The Toyota...
Month : May 2023
GABON : Jean Ping allowed to travel again after years of house arrest
Having been banned from leaving Gabon for almost 7 years, Jean Ping, who still insists he rather than Ali Bongo was the rightful winner of...
ALGERIA : Cevital execs jailed for sugar trading
Two key executives at Algeria’s largest private group Cevital were sentenced to 10 years in prison on 23 May by an Algiers court for selling...
MADAGASCAR : Vanilla piles up as importers look elsewhere
The impending vanilla harvest in Madagascar is expected to be bountiful, but traders are worried about the large quantity of unsold stock leftover from last...
CONGO : Chevron sells up in Congo
According to our sources, Chevron has mandated ScotiaBank, which has offices in both Houston and London, to sell its assets...
KENYA : Japan and Kenya aspire to closer bilateral relations
Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida paid an official visit to Nairobi earlier this month to mark the 60th anniversary of...
SUDAN : Nyala tribal leaders refuse to take sides in Sudanese conflict
Far away from Khartoum – where a ceasefire declared on the evening of 22 May has decreased the intensity of the...
ALGERIA : TotalEnergies quits Arzew without a word
It’s all over. TotalEnergies has, with no official announcement, pulled out of the Arzew polypropylene plant project. When Petrofac won...
MOROCCO : OCP poised to deliver fertilisers to Burundi
Talks are in progress between the Moroccan phosphate giant OCP and the Burundian government, which is looking to import 3,000...
BENIN : Romuald Wadagni, the economy minister with a military brief
To help the Forces Armées Béninoises (FAB) combat armed groups, which in May killed around 15 civilians in two attacks in the north-west region of...
