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Kandia Camara, Côte d’Ivoire’s Foreign Minister, was elected Thursday October 12 Speaker of the country’s Senate, the first time a woman will lead the upper house of the country’s legislature. The 64-year-old diplomat landed 91 votes out of 97. She was appointed member of the house Monday October 9 by the country’s leader Alassane Outtara. […]
The Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) and its regional partners have launched a strategic regional committee for fertilizer control to address West Africa’s fertilizer quality challenges. ECOWAS, in cooperation with the West African Economic and Monetary Community (UEMOA) and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), has officially launched […]
Currency crisis in Nigeria deepens as its currency, the Naira, has dropped to ₦1,040 per dollar, which comes as a national industrial association has warned that soaring inflation is a threat to the country’s economy. In the parallel market, Nigeria’s currency has dropped to N1,040 per US dollar as supply surpassed demand, which was due […]
France has begun pulling out its troops from Niger after being ordered out of the West African nation by the military junta that ousted the pro-Paris president in a July coup, the military said Tuesday (10 October). “The first troops have left,” the spokesman of the French chief of staff said, confirming an earlier announcement […]
It’s high time to address the ‘embarrassingly low’ level of intra-African air connectivity which is depriving the continent and its people from reaching their full potential, an airline body chief has said. Addressing the recent annual general assembly of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) that was held in Luanda in Angola, the airline […]
To offer developing countries an “alternative” to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the EU launched, in 2021, its €300 billion Global Gateway scheme but as Kenya’s case shows, the EU’s initiative struggles to challenge its Chinese rival. For the European Union, investing in trade routes is about economic development and a way to push […]
Seven survivors and relatives of victims have launched a legal action against French company TotalEnergies for “involuntary manslaughter and failure to assist a person in danger” following a bloody 2021 Islamic State-linked jihadist attack in northern Mozambique. Victims and their families accuse the French energy giant, which ran a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project […]
Malian authorities have nullified authorization given to Air France to resume flights to the West African country after the airline suspended its services in August 2023. The decision came a day after Air France announced plans to resume flights to Mali from Friday October 13. The airline suspended on August 7 its flights to Mali, […]
Morocco’s Phosphate Group (OCP) and the World Bank agreed on Wednesday in Marrakesh to strengthen cooperation ties and programs benefitting five million farmers in Benin, Guinea, Mali, and Togo, covering 10 million hectares. The agreement was inked by OCP CEO Mostafa Terrab and WB Vice-Pdt.for Central Africa Ousmane Diagana during the ongoing WB-IMF Annual meetings […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin held Tuesday October 10 a telephone conversation with Mali’s interim President for the transitional period Assimi Goita, with talks focusing on the strengthening of economic ties and security cooperation. “At the initiative of the Malian side, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the President of the transitional period […]