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Premium badgeGuinea’s deposed Alpha Condé in Istanbul, a well-connected exile Settled in Turkey since May 2022, the deposed Guinean president has kept a low profile, but has carefully maintained his contacts.
A woman pours maize into a bucket at a mill in Adjame, Abidjan July 25, 2011. REUTERS/ Thierry Gouegnon (IVORY COAST – Tags: BUSINESS FOOD)

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Premium badgeSenegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon… milling industry remains resilient despite pressure Amid supply difficulties stemming from the Ukraine conflict and heightened competition, the milling sector is navigating a challenging path in West an...
Colonel Sadiba Koulibaly (L) and Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (R), coup leaders in Guinea. (©JA Montage: John Wessels/AFP/All rights reserved)

trend setting

Premium badgeCoups in Francophone Africa in past three years – a timeline Eight governments have been overthrown in Francophone African countries in the past three years.

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Premium badgeMining, energy, construction: Where in Africa is it best to invest? In a complex economic environment in Africa, political risk, soaring construction costs and rising interest rates are putting the brakes on internatio...
Alpha Condé, 15 April 2015 in Washington, DC ©Olivier Douliery/CNP/AdMe/SIPA

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Premium badgeGuinea’s deposed Alpha Condé in Istanbul, a well-connected exile Settled in Turkey since May 2022, the deposed Guinean president has kept a low profile, but has carefully maintained his contacts.
A woman pours maize into a bucket at a mill in Adjame, Abidjan July 25, 2011. REUTERS/ Thierry Gouegnon (IVORY COAST – Tags: BUSINESS FOOD)

headlong rush

Premium badgeSenegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon… milling industry remains resilient despite pressure Amid supply difficulties stemming from the Ukraine conflict and heightened competition, the milling sector is navigating a challenging path in West an...

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Planet Earth, illustration. (Photo by Visible Earth, NASA/JOHAN SWANEP / JSW / Science Photo Library via AFP)

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Premium badgeMining, energy, construction: Where in Africa is it best to invest? In a complex economic environment in Africa, political risk, soaring construction costs and rising interest rates are putting the brakes on internatio...
Alpha Condé, 15 April 2015 in Washington, DC ©Olivier Douliery/CNP/AdMe/SIPA

still active

Premium badgeGuinea’s deposed Alpha Condé in Istanbul, a well-connected exile Settled in Turkey since May 2022, the deposed Guinean president has kept a low profile, but has carefully maintained his contacts.
A woman pours maize into a bucket at a mill in Adjame, Abidjan July 25, 2011. REUTERS/ Thierry Gouegnon (IVORY COAST – Tags: BUSINESS FOOD)

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Premium badgeSenegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon… milling industry remains resilient despite pressure Amid supply difficulties stemming from the Ukraine conflict and heightened competition, the milling sector is navigating a challenging path in West an...

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A man works in a rice field in Nanan, Côte d’Ivoire. The country has increased its domestic production but still relies largely on imports. (REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon)

grain pain

Premium badgeIndia’s export cuts threaten West Africa’s rice supplies Export restrictions imposed by India, the world’s largest rice exporter, are complicating supplies to the region, especially Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea.
Migrants repatriated from Dakhla after their boat capsized. Yoff military airport, Dakar, 26 July 2023. SEYLLOU/AFP

long way home

Repatriating migrants: Morocco says it is setting an example On 23 August, another 325 migrants expelled from Morocco returned home to Senegal. Rabat says the migrants were moved in the best possible conditions.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

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NIger Demonstration in support of the coup plotters in Niamey, 30 July 2023. © AFP

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Guinea’s interim president, Mamadi Doumbouya. (AFP/John Wessels)

middle man

Premium badgeNiger coup: Guinea’s Doumbouya will not be swayed Though he is part of what is now a quartet of unelected leaders in West Africa, Guinea’s interim president Mamady Doumbouya is his own man and is taki...
Centamin is exploring 300,000ha in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

‘absolute dream’

Premium badgeCentamin eyes new gold mine in Egypt after Burkina Faso exit: Martin Horgan The Canadian miner’s CEO says the company aims to retain its Sukari joint venture with the government and later develop a new mine that it fully owns ...