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Kenya
France prepares maritime cooperation deal

The French state secretary for the sea, Hervé Berville, spent several days by the Kenyan coast in late October with the goal to reinforce French-Kenyan maritime cooperation.

Morocco
Lacking OCP's phosphates, national railway operator sees drop in freight volumes

Morocco's national railway operator, the ONCF, saw a significant drop in its freight business in the first half of 2023.

The New Guard
Mali, Kenya, Uganda

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

MaliAli Soumaré, from PS to PR

KenyaBill Amunga, all about business

UgandaMaxwell Atuhura, the activist taking on TotalEnergies

Tanzania
Samia breaks up vast Bagamoyo project to attract more investment

To avoid being overly dependent on a single partner, the Tanzanian president has decided to divide the scheme to build a major port in Bagamoyo into different tranches.

DRC
$42m dispute between SCTP and Agemi

In dispute with the Congolese public infrastructure company SCTP since 2015, the construction company Agemi has embarked on a legal battle to enforce a ruling handed down in February by the Matadi court of appeal.

Algeria
End to ban on sugar export in sight

The export ban was ordered in March by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to help prevent shortages. Cevital, Algeria's top sugar manufacturer, is putting the finishing touches on negotiations to lift the ban.

Cameroon
Kribi port makes eyes at Bolloré and CMA to develop industrial park

The Port Authority of Kribi wants to develop a 500-hectare industrial park to support its deepwater port of Kribi. The port's executives have planned to meet the shareholders of the container terminal in Paris next week to present their project

Algeria, France
As they return to Algiers, French bosses caught between old and new worlds

Representatives of more than a dozen major French companies will later this month pay their first visit to Algiers in five years. But the government is unhappy with their umbrella organisation's continuing collaboration with a counterpart entity associated with the ousted Bouteflika administration.