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Phosphates

A key agricultural input, phosphates are mainly produced and sold in Africa by Morocco's OCP. Numerous other companies have begun producing, transforming and selling phosphates, whether these are public (Compagnie des phosphates de Gafsa, Societe nationale des phosphates du Togo (SNPT) or private, Foskor and soon Kropz and Great Quest Fertilizer.

AUSTRALIA MOROCCO WESTERN SAHARA Mining Commodity traders 04/10/2022

OCP resumes Western Sahara phosphate exports to Australia

Faced with supply difficulties linked to Russia's war on Ukraine, the Australian fertiliser producer Incitec Pivot has restarted its imports of phosphates from the Boucraa mine in the Sahara, operated by OCP. It had stopped sourcing there in 2016, after protest from Scandinavian shareholders. [...]

KENYA Diplomacy 04/10/2022

Ruto builds agricultural diplomacy, leveraging AfDB's Adesina and ADB's Dangote

The contours of William Ruto's foreign policy, an area largely left out of his election campaign, are beginning to take shape. The Kenyan president is broadening his official and unofficial networks and putting a particular focus on agriculture. [...]

Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote and Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank.

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. [...]

SpotlightALGERIA Mining 08/09/2022

Tebboune's grand plans for cobalt, iron and coltan mining

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has placed major mining projects at the top of his agenda. Chinese and Russian operators have traditionally been Algeria's partners of choice, but Algiers now wants to open up to Western firms, including French companies on the lookout for rare metals. [...]

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

NORTH AFRICA FRANCE Diplomacy 17/08/2022

Patrick Durel to stay on as Macron's North Africa adviser

Conseiller chargé de l'Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient à l'Elysée depuis 2020, Patrick Durel devrait voir sa mission prolongée. [...]

ETHIOPIA Commodity traders 07/07/2022

Cash-strapped Addis faces fertiliser shortage

The Ethiopian government stockpiled fertiliser before the crisis and price hike. At a time when foreign exchange reserves are at their lowest, this hoard could help finance farming subsidies. [...]

AFRICA Politics 05/07/2022

Palace intrigues: Macky Sall, Assimi Goïta, George Weah, Evariste Ngamana and Marine Le Pen

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peak into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond. This week: Macky Sall telephones Assimi Goïta; George Weah is the special birthday guest of the ex-rebel Prince Johnson; Paris refuses the deputy speaker's medical evacuation to France; and Marine Le Pen has a tête-à-tête with France's former ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt. [...]

TUNISIA Infrastructures 30/06/2022

Tunis seeks backers for struggling PPP infrastructure projects

In addition to existing projects such as the Sfax tramway and desalination plants, the Tunisian government has several longer-term ecological and energy-based ideas in the pipeline. These include a phosphate pipeline facility and the development of green hydrogen. [...]

TOGO Mining 29/06/2022

Miners eye up Togo as the new uranium frontier

Previously known for investments in countries with a well-established mining sector, British junior Power Metal Resources (PWR) has decided to tackle a territory previously explored only for its phosphates: Togo. [...]

SpotlightSOUTHERN AFRICA Commodity traders Diplomacy 16/06/2022

Putin's envoy reassures Harare and Maputo but avoids Pretoria

On a tour of southern Africa, Russian Federation Council leader Valentina Matvienko promised Zimbabwe and Mozambique that their imports of basic necessities would not be hit by the war in Ukraine. But the Kremlin envoy notably did not include South Africa in her trip. [...]

Valentina Matvienko, President of the Council of the Russian Federation.

MOROCCO Diplomacy 07/06/2022

OCP fails to get visas to attend the Vivatech trade fair in Paris

The giant Moroccan phosphates group has become the latest victim in the visa war raging between Paris and Rabat. Relations between the two countries are currently at a low ebb. [...]

NIGERIA Mining 27/05/2022

Government plans PR campaign on natural resources to attract foreign investors

In order to increase the mining sector's contribution to the country's GDP, the Nigerian government is preparing a PR campaign to promote its national resources. But it first has to wait for the findings of a geological survey currently in progress. [...]

AFRICA FRANCE Diplomacy 27/05/2022

Jean-Yves Le Drian's departure is rued from Brazzaville to N'Djamena

Jean-Yves Le Drian was removed as foreign minister in the most recent reshuffle after more than ten successive years in the French government, first at defence and then at foreign affairs. This is a loss for numerous African leaders, for whom the minister from Brittany was their go-to contact in France. [...]

Former Chadian president Idriss Déby and Jean-Yves Le Drian, the then defence minister, in December 2016.

AFRICA SAUDI ARABIA INDIA 19/05/2022

Riyadh and New Delhi go hunting for investors at Mining Indaba

Saudi Arabia and India made the most of the Investing in African Mining Indaba annual conference to showcase the investment opportunities on offer on their own home soil. [...]

Minister of Industry and Mines Bandar Bin Ibrahim Al Khorayef at the 2022 Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town.

MOROCCO NIGERIA Energy 09/05/2022

OPEC secretary-general Barkindo gives Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline unexpected boost

OPEC secretary-general Mohammed Barkindo has played a decisive role in the pipeline project, which could provide a gas supply link from the Niger delta to Europe. The project has been under consideration since 2016 and, although by no means sure to be seen through, is to get OPEC financial support. [...]

OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo attends a session during Egypt's 5th Petroleum Show

TANZANIA Mining 29/04/2022

Suluhu Hassan calls on investors to take over tanzanite mining

The Tanzanian government is issuing a fresh call for tenders for the Block C tanzanite deposit, currently abandoned and mined by clandestine miners, in a bid to make its mining sector more profitable for the state. [...]

Tanzanite stones in Mirerani mine in Tanzania.

MOROCCO Mining Commodity traders 06/04/2022

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. [...]

GUINEA Mining 22/03/2022

New A-team takes over Mount Nimba iron ore project from disputed Sable Mining

Nimba Development Co has obtained the mining rights on a Guinean iron ore permit previously held by Sable Mining, which was accused of irregular practices in 2016. Several Guinean mining experts are on the Nimba board and management, among them the former head of the Simandou iron ore project and the former managing director of GAC, who is also the daughter of Guinea's transition prime minister. [...]

AFRICA Commodity traders Business 21/03/2022

PhosAgro, Uralchem, Eurochem: how Russian fertiliser giants cope with sanctions Free

In light of Western measures against their shareholders, the fertiliser producers PhosAgro, Uralchem and Eurochem will drastically cut their exports to Africa, a market they had turned to with relative success after the loss of their Ukrainian clients in 2014. [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin (back right) and his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa (back left) with Dmitry Mazepin (front right) of Uralchem, and Perence Shiri (front left), Zimbabwean minister of agriculture, 15 January 2019, Moscow.

AFRICA Commodity traders Business 16/03/2022

Sanctions against Eurochem's Russian shareholder disrupt Helios's sale of Solevo

The European Union's decision on 9 March to blacklist the oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, who holds a majority stake in Eurochem, is likely to disrupt Helios's plans. The fund had been counting on the Russian-Swiss fertiliser giant to raise the stakes on Solevo against OCP. [...]

Andrey Melnichenko, majority shareholder of Eurochem.

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OCP resumes Western Sahara phosphate exports to Australia

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Tebboune's grand plans for cobalt, iron and coltan mining

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OCP fails to get visas to attend the Vivatech trade fair in Paris

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