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Abidjan-based Banque Nationale d’investissement pledges to back coffee, cocoa exporters with around $274 million for new season

Banque Nationale d’Investissement (BNI), also known as National Bank of Investment, vowed to support exporters of coffee and cocoa of Côte d’Ivoire with around $274 million for a new season starting in few days, Abidjan Net reports. Jerôme Ahua, Deputy Director of the bank, made the announcement during a networking event of coffee and cocoa […]

Libya: Truce led to notable reduction in violence, violations reported

The UN call for a humanitarian truce over this week’s Eid al-Adha religious holiday led to a “palpable reduction” of violence around the embattled capital of Tripoli, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement released Wednesday Aug.14.   Following the UN’s plea last Thursday, both the forces loyal to the UN-recognized […]

Leader of the Islamic State of the Great Sahara captured in northern Mali

A man described as a “high-ranking fighter of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara” (EIGS) has been captured by French forces in Mali, in a joint Nigerien-French operation against the group’s militants. Dadi Ould Chouaib, also known as Abou Dardar, was arrested on June 11 in the flashpoint “tri-border” region between Niger, Mali and […]