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After investing in flour, YCAP turns to high-end real estate

Six months after announcing it would acquire the Forafric milling company from the Benjelloun family, the Paris-based investment fund YCAP [...]

Published on 09.07.2015 at 03:30 GMT

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Benjelloun
Continental Milling Morocco
Fonds Gabonais d'Investissements Strategiques
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Forafric Group
Forafric SA
Grandes semouleries du Maroc
Grands
Hicham Mohsine
Lotfi El Arabi
Maymouna Food
Michael Elbaz
Mimouna Luxury Properties
Mouad
Moulins du Tensift
Yariv Elbaz
YC Luxury Properties
YCAP

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Private jets, offshore fields, football, magazines: the presidential palace's untraceable holdings

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Gabonese President Ali Bongo getting off his plane during a visit to Beijing, 2018.

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Tea "sultan" Hamid Raji to serve up couscous

The king of Sultan teas, Hamid Raji, has taken on the highly-competitive couscous grain and pasta market.

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In Focus | Gabon
How Ycap became the Gabonese sovereign fund's favorite asset manager

After having been sanctioned by France's financial markets authority, financier Yariv Elbaz has succeeded in making a comeback in Gabon with his fund Ycap, which has become the main financial partner of the country's sovereign fund.

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Franco-Moroccan financier Yariv Elbaz at the 2014 New York Forum Africa.

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The Bongo family's sky-high surprise

Gabon's presidential family had until now been blissfully unaware that it does not actually own the two Boeings and Bombardier Global that it uses to jet around. After recently learning otherwise, it is having trouble working out who does control the planes.

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The Boeing 737 registering as P4-BBJ, frequently used by Sylvia Bongo.

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Forafric Group
Forafric SA
Grandes semouleries du Maroc
Grands
Hicham Mohsine
Lotfi El Arabi
Maymouna Food
Michael Elbaz
Mimouna Luxury Properties
Mouad
Moulins du Tensift
Yariv Elbaz
YC Luxury Properties
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Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Morocco
After investing in flour, YCAP turns to high-end real estate

In Focus | Gabon
Private jets, offshore fields, football, magazines: the presidential palace's untraceable holdings

Morocco
Tea "sultan" Hamid Raji to serve up couscous

In Focus | Gabon
How Ycap became the Gabonese sovereign fund's favorite asset manager

Gabon
The Bongo family's sky-high surprise

Morocco
Forafric swells its Moroccan subsidiaries' coffers

Gabon
Who's in control of Roussette

Morocco
Property specialist Khalid Assari joins Forafric

Morocco
Ali Bongo "rep" Serge Mickoto attends Marrakesh Sino-African forum