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Algeria Jails 6, Fines Foreign Firms in Corruption Case

An Algerian court on Tuesday handed prison sentences to six people, ranging from 18 month suspended sentence to 6 years in prison plus fines, in a corruption case involving the country’s state-run oil firm Sonatrach. Seven defendants were acquitted while four companies, including Italy’s Saipem and the German Funkwerk, were also sentenced to fines ranging […]

Morocco posts 3% increase in agricultural exports despite coronavirus

Despite the measures imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Moroccan agricultural sector is faring well with an abundant supply of the domestic market and exports of fruits and vegetables up 3% to 876,000 tons by mid-April compared with a year earlier, the agriculture ministry said. The increasing demand in Europe due to […]

New dawn for Ghanaian, Ivorian cocoa farmers

Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana – the world’s top two cocoa producers – have teamed up to impose a minimum floor price for Cocoa beans. The two West African countries are working together to address the unfavorable global cocoa pricing regime to reduce the vulnerability of both nations to the volatility of the markets, Ghana’s President […]