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Algeria, Morocco
Morocco and Algeria hooked on Brazil's raw sugar

To satisfy the region's persistent sweet tooth despite the current surge in sugar prices, sugar producers Cosumar, from Morocco, and Algeria's Cevital, have little choice but to keep buying their supplies from Brazil, for which they rely on increasingly dominant heavyweights such as Sao Paulo's Raizen and Copersucar. [...]

Published on 08.03.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Amine Louali
Antei International
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Cosumar
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The Minister of Agriculture Carlos Favaro in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14 July 2023.

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

Algeria, Morocco
Morocco and Algeria hooked on Brazil's raw sugar

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Agriculture: Brasília positions its best lobbyists on the continent

Spotlight | Morocco
Cosumar: behind-the-scenes of alliance with French group Sucden

Algeria
After Tunisia, Cevital resumes sugar exports to Mauritania and Lebanon

Morocco
Citrus exporters confront shrivelling Russian export market

Brazil, Southern Africa
Brasilia injects fresh blood into its African diplomatic corps

Algeria
Rebrab's oil seed treatment plant almost finished but may not open

Algeria
From social housing to sugar beet: Atlas boss Yunus Dogan sets sights on Saharan agriculture

Algeria
Sugar and oil exports ban puts Cevital on a sticky wicket

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Algeria
Cevital turns to oil exports to soften the blow from end of subsidies

Algeria
From cement works to malls, Malik Rebrab carves up Cevital family empire

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Labelle-Cristal Union to boost sugar export output