African governments have been slow in releasing the funds promised for the future African hydrocarbon bank. The project, led by Nigeria's Omar Farouk Ibrahim, is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2025, but only a portion of the financing it needs has been raised.
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The boat 'Chantal Biya' has been immobilised for months, racking up vast repair bills. It is still broken, however, and unable to clear sand from the port of Douala, preventing large container ships from docking there.
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Infrastructure Finance Minister Doudou Fwamba Likunde is looking into issuing a eurobond, working in close collaboration with the presidential cabinet headed by Anthony Nkinzo Kamole.
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The new military coordination body, which is modelled on the United States Africa Command, is working to reorganise France's presence on the continent. In addition to preserving military outposts in West and Central Africa, the project entails closer cooperation with a handful of other African states, some of which are English-speaking.
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Defence The longest-serving ambassador in the entire Chinese diplomatic network, Peng Jingtao, had been posted to Benin since April 2018.
The World Bank is still making substantial payments to construction firms as part of the $550m Tanzania Transport Integration Project.
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The International Monetary Fund believes that Christian Ntsay's government has not met the commitments it promised, particularly with regard to setting up a mechanism to adjust prices at petrol pumps, and so could miss out on millions of dollars.
Trading, exploration and production, renewable energy and mining… The Franco-Algerian businessman has a wide-ranging portfolio, which has brought him success to date in Algeria, West Africa and, most recently, Europe.
A delegation of Russian cereals exporters, led by Rusgrain Union chairman Eduard Zernin, is due in Casablanca on 29 November to meet Moroccan importers.
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