Ivory Coast : Cargill and Barry Callebaut cocoa plants may grind to halt
Most of the major traders had anticipated a production drop of between 20% and 25%. However, almost 50% of the volumes sold by the Conseil...
Month : February 2024
West Africa : Ructions over EU fast intervention boat contract
Within the framework of SWAIMS, the European Union-funded Support to the West African Integrated Maritime Strategy, 12 coastal countries in West Africa have been selected...
Sudan : Taqaddum civil movement in Juba to talk peace
The Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces (Taqaddum) is stepping up discussions with regional players as part of its strategy to...
Madagascar : EDF decision on Volobe dam project imminent
Negotiations between EDF and Compagnie Générale d’Hydroélectricité de Volobe (CGHV) have entered their final phase. The French group is expected...
Sierra Leone : Freetown still searching for November coup plotters
Nearly 60 people – most of them soldiers – were arrested in the wake of the attempted putsch on 26...
Mauritania/Senegal : Sall and Ghazouani get tough on BP
The audit of the costs of the offshore Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) field, announced with great fanfare on 19 January in Dakar by Senegalese oil...
Ethiopia : New investment chief Hanna Araya Selassie has allies galore
Hanna Araya Selassie’s appointment as head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) sustains what has been a meteoric rise within Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government...
Kenya : Gachagua quietly hands coffee reform reins to controversial Kenyatta-era economist
Professor Joseph Kieyah is well known but not well liked by stakeholders in Kenya’s coffee sector, thanks to the reforms...
Angola/Ivory Coast/Nigeria : Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty expands from Lagos to Luanda
Barbadian singer Rihanna’s cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty plans to open up shop in Ivory Coast this year in what will...
Africa : Azali Assoumani, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Abdourahamane Tchiani, Bobi Wine
Comoros – Outgoing AU chair Assoumani aims for Sahel tourThe putschists in Niamey have agreed to accept a visit shortly...
