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The port of Rades, the main entry point for cereals in Tunisia.
The port of Rades, the main entry point for cereals in Tunisia. © Flickr/t_abdelmoumen

North Africa
How Italy's Casillo became a key player in Tunisia's cereal market

The Casillo family group, the leading supplier of durum wheat to Italian pasta manufacturers, has for several years systematically responded to calls for tenders from the Tunisian cereals office. This has enabled it to bag a swathe of the country's supply contracts since the start of the Ukraine war.
LogoSubscribers only Commodity traders, Business 22.04.2022
The logo of the Office algérien interprofessionnel des céréales (OAIC) on a silo in the port of Algiers.
The logo of the Office algérien interprofessionnel des céréales (OAIC) on a silo in the port of Algiers. © Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Inner circles | Algeria
How OAIC cereals board provides daily bread to Algerians despite Ukraine war and scandals

Algeria's national cereals board, the OAIC, is the focus of major government spending and a key political tool for its bilateral relationship with France. The organisation is tasked with ensuring Algeria is supplied with wheat, despite the current high prices and the sometimes competing demands of millers, bakers and consumers. Its bosses know they are on the chopping block.
LogoSubscribers only Commodity traders, Business 15.04.2022

Morocco
Out of the stock market, Innophos restarts import of Western Saharan phosphates

Despite having stopped imports of phosphate from Western Sahara as a matter of "social responsibility" in 2018, the US company Innophos resumed these in 2021 according to the NGO Western Sahara Resource Watch. President Donald Trump had recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory the year before, around the same time Innophos pulled its stock listing.
LogoSubscribers only Mining, Commodity traders 06.04.2022

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