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West Africa
Yacoub Sidya, Russian group Nordgold's invisible partner

Companies linked to Mauritanian businessman Yacoub Sidya are omnipresent around the African operations of Russian miner Nordgold, which was hit by sanctions after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The gold mining firm, however, takes great care to remain in the background.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders 17.04.2023

Ivory Coast
Ex-CCC exec Vallet-Coulibaly to support local cocoa traders in new role

Recently appointed as the vice president's chief of staff, Françoise Vallet-Coulibaly has been tasked with tackling the supply difficulties being experienced by Ivorian cocoa bean exporters.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 13.04.2023

Morocco
OCP North America strengthens its board ahead of anti-subsidy duties review

The US subsidiary of Morocco fertiliser giant OCP is bolstering its board of directors as it prepares to request a review of the countervailing duties imposed on it by Washington in 2021.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 11.04.2023

Central African Republic
TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

The French oil major appears to have found a way out of the Central African Republic at last. The country's largest company is selling its assets to Tamoil, a Libyan company that is based in Europe.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders, Business 07.04.2023

Burkina Faso
Junta pressures mining industry into contributing to war effort

The junta, which is in financial difficulty, particularly because of the cost of its battle with the armed groups rife in northern and eastern Burkina Faso, is doing all it can to get its hands on the cash generated by the mines.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders Running story - The Sahel security crisis 05.04.2023

Kenya
Asian traders keen to make Kenya a hardwood export hub

Southeast Asian importers want their Kenyan partners to export more prized timber from Afzelia trees, all species of which are classified as threatened but which can still be traded through the issuing of export permits.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 04.04.2023

In Focus | Madagascar
How vanilla price crisis has rocked Madagascar government

The vanilla industry, which accounts for 5% of Madagascar's GDP, is at the centre of a power struggle between the government and major players in the sector, most of whom are foreign. Key to the battle is the minimum price set by Antananarivo.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics, Business 03.04.2023

The vanilla industry is at the heart of a power struggle between the Malagasy government and the sector's economic operators, over which the shadow of Mamy Ravatomanga looms.

Algeria
State rescues Boudiab group subsidiary

Of the 13 subsidiaries of the Boudiab group whose assets were frozen by the courts, only the Etablissement de Commerce International, Algeria's leading private cereal importer, has found favour with the authorities. The others face collapse.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 03.04.2023

Morocco, Rwanda
Trader BB Energy tries out carbon offset scheme in Kigali

BB Energy is selling ecological kitchen units in Rwanda to help households reduce their firewood consumption by 80%. The group plans to covert the saved emissions into sellable carbon credits.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders 03.04.2023

Cameroon
Africa Food Distribution loses court battle with powdered milk giant Hoogwegt

Cameroonian food distribution company Africa Food Distribution (AFD) has definitively lost its case against Dutch dairy trader Hoogwegt. The Court of Cassation handed down the ruling on 22 March:

Subscribers only Commodity traders 31.03.2023

Burkina Faso
State-owned Sonabhy tries to keep fuel flowing

Instead of soliciting letters of credit on its own behalf, Sonabhy has called on the financier Roland Yago to facilitate getting the documents for Burkina Faso fuel distributors so they can buy directly from the traders who supply the state-owned fuel supply firm's port depots.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 28.03.2023

In Focus | Africa
Facing courts and shareholders, Monaco Resources Group living on borrowed time - and money

Saddled with more than a billion euros in debt, Monaco Resources Group has become entangled in its own financial schemes. In terms of its logistical, agricultural and mining operations in Africa, the holding company has experienced a string of failures.

Subscribers only Finance, Mining, Commodity traders 27.03.2023

The Monaco Resources Group holding company was co-founded by Axel Fischer.

Botswana
Diamond trader HB Antwerp positions itself in Gaborone as alternative to De Beers

HB Antwerp is in talks with the state-owned Okavango Diamond Co over a diamond trade partnership, which the Belgian trader is hoping to show would be more profitable for the Botswana government than its arrangement with sector giant De Beers.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders 22.03.2023

Spotlight | Central Africa
Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

The main foreign investors in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa are alarmed by the regional body's foreign exchange regulations, considering them to be too tough. But despite intense lobbying, a relaxation of the rules looks unlikely, the central bank having set itself ambitious objectives for foreign currency reserves.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Commodity traders 17.03.2023

Abbas Mahamat Tolli, governor of the Bank of Central African States, in Paris in 2018.

DRC
Double act takes over from Trafigura trader Economou to ensure cobalt continuity

The discovery of major fraud in Trafigura's nickel business, which could cost the Swiss firm up to $577m, pushed its trader Socrates Economou towards the exit. Mehdi Wetterwald and Daniel von Arx are taking over from him and will head to DR Congo to secure the group's supplies of cobalt.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders 15.03.2023

Ivory Coast
Cargill granted extra cocoa beans quota

Despite the Cocoa and Coffee Council's decision in February to limit sales to large traders, the head of the US trading giant's regional office was able to bargain for an additional quota of around 10,000 tonnes of cocoa beans, of which Cargill is the Ivory Coast's largest exporter.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 13.03.2023

A farm worker with cacoa beans at a farm in Ivory Coast.

Inner circles | Guinea
Junta leader Doumbouya keeps close eye on flourishing state-owned Soguipami

The revenues of the company that manages the state's mining interests have increased significantly, particularly in the bauxite sector, and it is now directly selling some of the minerals it extracts, in particular to the Chinese.

Free access Mining, Commodity traders 10.03.2023

Egypt
Cairo picks unknown Grainflower to supply Russian wheat

The winner of an Egyptian government call for tenders to supply 240,000 tonnes of wheat is a previously unknown Dubai cereals trader with ties to Trading House RIF, the biggest exporter of Russian wheat.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 09.03.2023

Uganda
Kampala appoints US trade representative

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni named US national Cody Lorance trade representative to the US.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 02.03.2023

Egypt
Cairo still struggles to find wheat as war in Ukraine continues

Egypt has its most powerful members of government working on diversifying the country's wheat supply. It is looking at the Balkans, Central Europe and India, but its two main suppliers - Russia and Ukraine - have no need to worry.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 28.02.2023

Workers unload wheat at the Banha grain silos, in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, 25 May 2022.

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Commodity traders

West Africa
Yacoub Sidya, Russian group Nordgold's invisible partner

Ivory Coast
Ex-CCC exec Vallet-Coulibaly to support local cocoa traders in new role

Morocco
OCP North America strengthens its board ahead of anti-subsidy duties review

Central African Republic
TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

Burkina Faso
Junta pressures mining industry into contributing to war effort

Kenya
Asian traders keen to make Kenya a hardwood export hub

In Focus | Madagascar
How vanilla price crisis has rocked Madagascar government

Algeria
State rescues Boudiab group subsidiary

Morocco, Rwanda
Trader BB Energy tries out carbon offset scheme in Kigali

Cameroon
Africa Food Distribution loses court battle with powdered milk giant Hoogwegt

Burkina Faso
State-owned Sonabhy tries to keep fuel flowing

In Focus | Africa
Facing courts and shareholders, Monaco Resources Group living on borrowed time - and money

Botswana
Diamond trader HB Antwerp positions itself in Gaborone as alternative to De Beers

Spotlight | Central Africa
Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

DRC
Double act takes over from Trafigura trader Economou to ensure cobalt continuity

Ivory Coast
Cargill granted extra cocoa beans quota

Inner circles | Guinea
Junta leader Doumbouya keeps close eye on flourishing state-owned Soguipami

Egypt
Cairo picks unknown Grainflower to supply Russian wheat

Uganda
Kampala appoints US trade representative

Egypt
Cairo still struggles to find wheat as war in Ukraine continues

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Commodity traders

West Africa Yacoub Sidya, Russian group Nordgold's invisible partner

Ivory Coast Ex-CCC exec Vallet-Coulibaly to support local cocoa traders in new role

Morocco OCP North America strengthens its board ahead of anti-subsidy duties review

Central African Republic TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

Burkina Faso Junta pressures mining industry into contributing to war effort

Kenya Asian traders keen to make Kenya a hardwood export hub

In Focus | Madagascar How vanilla price crisis has rocked Madagascar government

Algeria State rescues Boudiab group subsidiary

Morocco, Rwanda Trader BB Energy tries out carbon offset scheme in Kigali

Cameroon Africa Food Distribution loses court battle with powdered milk giant Hoogwegt

Burkina Faso State-owned Sonabhy tries to keep fuel flowing

In Focus | Africa Facing courts and shareholders, Monaco Resources Group living on borrowed time - and money

Botswana Diamond trader HB Antwerp positions itself in Gaborone as alternative to De Beers

Spotlight | Central Africa Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

DRC Double act takes over from Trafigura trader Economou to ensure cobalt continuity

Ivory Coast Cargill granted extra cocoa beans quota

Inner circles | Guinea Junta leader Doumbouya keeps close eye on flourishing state-owned Soguipami

Egypt Cairo picks unknown Grainflower to supply Russian wheat

Uganda Kampala appoints US trade representative

Egypt Cairo still struggles to find wheat as war in Ukraine continues

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About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

West Africa
Yacoub Sidya, Russian group Nordgold's invisible partner

Ivory Coast
Ex-CCC exec Vallet-Coulibaly to support local cocoa traders in new role

Morocco
OCP North America strengthens its board ahead of anti-subsidy duties review

Central African Republic
TotalEnergies poised to tiptoe out of CAR

Burkina Faso
Junta pressures mining industry into contributing to war effort

Kenya
Asian traders keen to make Kenya a hardwood export hub

In Focus | Madagascar
How vanilla price crisis has rocked Madagascar government

Algeria
State rescues Boudiab group subsidiary

Morocco, Rwanda
Trader BB Energy tries out carbon offset scheme in Kigali

Cameroon
Africa Food Distribution loses court battle with powdered milk giant Hoogwegt

Burkina Faso
State-owned Sonabhy tries to keep fuel flowing

In Focus | Africa
Facing courts and shareholders, Monaco Resources Group living on borrowed time - and money

Botswana
Diamond trader HB Antwerp positions itself in Gaborone as alternative to De Beers

Spotlight | Central Africa
Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

DRC
Double act takes over from Trafigura trader Economou to ensure cobalt continuity

Ivory Coast
Cargill granted extra cocoa beans quota

Inner circles | Guinea
Junta leader Doumbouya keeps close eye on flourishing state-owned Soguipami

Egypt
Cairo picks unknown Grainflower to supply Russian wheat

Uganda
Kampala appoints US trade representative

Egypt
Cairo still struggles to find wheat as war in Ukraine continues