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DRC Energy Commodity traders 29/09/2022

Oil giant ADNOC deploys supertankers to boost trade in Africa

The Emirati firm has since 2018 been strengthening and diversifying its oil trading business, including by poaching staff from TotalEnergies. Since the invasion of Ukraine, it has been making inroads in Africa by dispatching supertankers to countries with no storage capacity of their own. It also hopes to bag some long-term contracts, notably in the DRC. [...]

UGANDA Energy Commodity traders 23/09/2022

Museveni fears fuel shortage after turning down Russian oil

Under pressure from the United States, Uganda has declined to import fuel from Russia, but its reserves are now getting dangerously low. [...]

GHANA Commodity traders 22/09/2022

Cocobod grapples with cocoa farmers' associations

Communications between the cocoa sector regulator and the main bean producer organisations have become strained. The latter reproach the public body for not consulting them, particularly on the re-evaluation of the on-farm price, unchanged since 2019. [...]

BOTSWANA Commodity traders 14/09/2022

Ex-Botswana Rail boss, Len Makwinja, embarks on coal trading

Leonard "Len" Makwinja, an experienced entrepreneur in mining and logistics in Gaborone, is moving into coal trading: South African and global demand is seeing strong growth and there are several projects underway to upgrade railway connections to South Africa. [...]

SENEGAL Commodity traders 13/09/2022

Dakar flour production could grind to a halt over unpaid subsidies

Senegalese millers are threatening to stop flour production if the government does not pay them promised subsidies, which they say amount to €58m. They have already drastically reduced their supplies from grain traders. [...]

GHANA Commodity traders 12/09/2022

Cocobod faces soaring fertiliser costs and large-scale illicit resales

Cocobod hasn't changed the price it charges cocoa farmers for fertiliser even though the international market price has gone through the roof. Meanwhile the illegal resale of the heavily subsidised fertilisers that it distributes to its Ghanaian affiliates is flourishing. Those diverted volumes often cross the Ivorian border. [...]

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ANGOLA DRC Infrastructures Mining Commodity traders 06/09/2022

Trafigura, Vecturis and Mota-Engil all set to restart Kolwezi-Lobito rail corridor

The consortium of the three European groups, which won the tender to run the Angolan part of the mining railway, has already begun talks with Kinshasa and the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Congolais. [...]

BOTSWANA Commodity traders 05/09/2022

How Rosy Blue bought its first diamond cutting facility in Botswana

After more than two decades of trying, the Indian-based diamond producer Rosy Blue has at last managed to secure a diamond cutting facility in Botswana. [...]

ETHIOPIA Commodity traders Politics 30/08/2022

Alarm in Addis as farmers ditch coffee for khat

Growing the chewable stimulant involves less red tape and uncertainty than its drinkable counterpart. Consequently, more and more farmers are planting khat rather than top-export-earner coffee, to the government's great consternation. [...]

BOTSWANA Mining Commodity traders 30/08/2022

Diamond giant Debswana takes on mining services

On 4 August, Botswana's diamond giant Debswana - a joint venture between the Botswana government and the UK's De Beers Group - quietly established a new subsidiary in Gaborone: Naledi Mining Services. Since the beginning of his term in 2018, President Mokgweetsi Masisi has been working to accelerate the sector's independence from international giants. [...]

DRC Commodity traders 29/08/2022

Congo Airways engaged in a frantic race for secondhand aircraft Free

The serious financial difficulties of the Congolese airline have made it impossible for it to fulfil its order book with Embraer and has forced its interim director to turn to leasing aircraft. [...]

AFRICA Commodity traders 29/08/2022

Monaco Resources' eventful summer

Already at odds with one of its partners in Guinea, as well as with one of its co-shareholders in Congo, the Monaco Resources group has recently found itself the target of a scathing report sent to all of the group's government partner across Europe and Africa. [...]

ALGERIA Commodity traders 29/08/2022

Cevital's crushing plant in Béjaïa placed under lock and key

The Algerian authorities on 15 August sealed shut the oilseed crushing plant built by the Cevital group in Béjaïa, and whose launch was initially planned for the end of 2022. They did so on the grounds that the project had not received all the required authorisations. [...]

NIGERIA Energy Commodity traders 16/08/2022

Ex-Glencore Anthony Stimler's sentencing control date pushed to 2023

The sentencing control date of Anthony Stimler, who led the West Africa department of Swiss trader Glencore from 2002 to 2009, then again between 2011 and 2019, has been postponed for another six months. [...]

Inner circles IVORY COAST GHANA Commodity traders 29/07/2022

New cocoa initiative still far cry from Ouattara and Akufo-Addo's chocolate heaven

The Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (ICCIG), based in Accra since September 2021 and headed by the experienced Ivorian Alex Assanvo, is struggling to bring multinationals on board. It is also trying to persuade the two regulatory bodies to radically shift their priorities. [...]

Alex Pierre-Arnaud Assanvo, secretary-general of the Ivory Coast Ghana Cocoa Initiative.

AFRICA Energy Mining Commodity traders Politics 27/07/2022

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How Rosy Blue bought its first diamond cutting facility in Botswana

Alarm in Addis as farmers ditch coffee for khat

Diamond giant Debswana takes on mining services

Congo Airways engaged in a frantic race for secondhand aircraft Free

Monaco Resources' eventful summer

Cevital's crushing plant in Béjaïa placed under lock and key

Ex-Glencore Anthony Stimler's sentencing control date pushed to 2023

New cocoa initiative still far cry from Ouattara and Akufo-Addo's chocolate heaven

The New Guard: Guinea, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana

Cevital group pressured to buy risky rapeseed crops

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