Mali: Coup leader Assimi Goita appointed President

The Malian Constitutional Court validated the coup leader Assimi Goita, the protagonist of last Monday’s coup, as the new president of the Republic, replacing the ousted president, Bah Ndaw. The Court seeks thus to give a semblance of legality to Monday’s coup in Bamako, staged by the same coup leaders who deposed the then president […]

Mauritania Teams Up with United Nations to fight Money Laundering

Mauritania financial authorities, bankers and businessmen seems to have joined forces in the fight against money laundering, financial crimes, tax evasion and terrorism financing. At a meeting held lately in Nouakchott, experts from of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) showed mauritanian finance inspectors how to foil money-laundering operations, the various methods of […]

Gabon restructures portion of debt to finance ocean protection

Gabon has converted $163 million, a third of its debt, into funds to protect its oceans, US-based NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Government of the central African country said Tuesday August 15. The swap operation marks “the start of a 15-year conservation project… to help Gabon finance ocean protection and management for 30 […]