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Doing Business Report Shows Two Speed North Africa

The long awaited 2018 Doing Business report has vindicated Morocco as a shining model in terms of ease of implementing investments in North Africa and controverted Algeria due to its unpropitious business climate. The report invalidates the unfounded statements uttered by Algeria’s foreign minister, Abdelkader Messahel, who claimed that his country ranks first at the […]

Rough waters: EAC firms brace for costly imports as freight ships shun Red Sea

East African countries have been hit hard by higher freight costs and longer cargo delivery time, as Yemen’s Houthi rebels step up attacks on ships traveling through the Red Sea to the western end of the Indian Ocean. Ports in Kenya and other East African ports should expect slower business in the immediate future as […]

Cameroon: scores killed in clashes with separatists ahead of senate elections

Cameroon’s military has reportedly killed scores of armed Anglophone separatists — who vowed to disrupt March senate elections in Cameroon’s western regions — in clashes over the past three weeks, detaining at least 15 others who surrendered to government forces. Ndop district residents in Cameroon’s restive Northwest region say seven bodies were found in bushes […]