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Africa, Morocco, Switzerland
Amid Ramadan demand surge, grain trader Millcorp supplies Morocco via Switzerland

Moroccan financier Yariv Elbaz's Swiss grain trading firm supplies leading miller Forafric with wheat from Ukraine and Russia. [...]

Published on 21.04.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Crédit Agricole
David Bellelis
David Salama
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre
Edmond de Rothschild
Forafric
Lecureur
Maymouna
MGT Black Sea
MGT Russia
Millcorp
Millcorp Grain
Olam
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Yariv Elbaz
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Ukraine-Russia: faced with soaring wheat prices, millers unilaterally raise flour prices

Célestin Tawamba, head of Cameroon's employers' federation and owner of La Pasta, is leading the Cameroonian flour mills' revolt against the government. After failing to obtain tax and customs exemptions, he and his competitors have decided to flout their sector's regulations.

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In Focus | Morocco
Elbaz opens up Forafric's capital to Trumpists and Kazakh oligarch Machkevitch via Nasdaq listing

Financier Yariv Elbaz, who specialises in complex financial operations, particularly for the Gabonese sovereign fund, is putting the final touches to a stock exchange operation that will turn his Forafric milling group into a leading force in the cereals "diplomacy" stakes with powerful financial and political allies.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 31.01.2022

Yariv Elbaz, president of Forafric, during a meeting with the Autonomous Port of Abidjan on 25 August 2020.

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Forafric creates new flour mill in Fez as it awaits Nasdaq listing

On 14 January, Morrocan agribusiness firm Forafric created a new subsidiary the Minoterie Epidor mill based in Fez.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 25.01.2022

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The collapse of commodity trader Phoenix shakes up rice trade

By poaching veterans from rice trading giant Phoenix Global, which was liquidated in 2020, and taking over its contractual positions, the firm's competitors Swiss Singapore, Olam and Ameropa are now ready, thanks to their vastly expanded African network, to face the current surge in food prices.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 19.01.2022

Ivory Coast
RockWinds and Africa Sourcing's spat over €5m cocoa investment bounces back in Paris

The dispute between Matthew Stolz's RockWinds trading company and its former Ivorian partner Africa Sourcing, which is claiming back €5m RockWinds invested in cocoa futures, has already been arbitrated in London but is now the subject of proceedings at a Paris court.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 11.01.2022

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MGT Russia
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Guinea
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

Africa, Morocco, Switzerland
Amid Ramadan demand surge, grain trader Millcorp supplies Morocco via Switzerland

Cameroon
Ukraine-Russia: faced with soaring wheat prices, millers unilaterally raise flour prices

In Focus | Morocco
Elbaz opens up Forafric's capital to Trumpists and Kazakh oligarch Machkevitch via Nasdaq listing

Morocco
Forafric creates new flour mill in Fez as it awaits Nasdaq listing

Spotlight | Africa
The collapse of commodity trader Phoenix shakes up rice trade

Ivory Coast
RockWinds and Africa Sourcing's spat over €5m cocoa investment bounces back in Paris

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

In Focus | Africa
The many lives of David Salama, go-to offshore specialist for sovereign wealth funds and oligarchs

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

Morocco
Forafric swells its Moroccan subsidiaries' coffers

Gabon
Who's in control of Roussette