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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...

A film still from “Shimoni” (The Pit), directed by Angela Wanjiku Wamai

Cinematic excellence

The 10 best African films of 2023…so far It has been quite the solid start to the cinematic year with African films making strong showings at the world’s most prestigious film festivals. ...

steel & mining

Premium badgeMorocco, Egypt companies drive North African champions ranking Steel, mining and even outsourcing have enabled North African groups to record good performances in 2021-2022.
A Malian soldier of the G5 Sahel Joint Force, stationed in Boulikessi, Burkina Faso. © Frederic Petry/Hans Lucas via AFP

civil, religious pillar

Premium badgeUAE: Why Abu Dhabi is implicated (discretely) in the Sahel The continued presence of the United Arab Emirates in the Sahel has not yet evolved into military action, but there is still concern over the expansio...

Mauritania top stories

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...

steel & mining

Premium badgeMorocco, Egypt companies drive North African champions ranking Steel, mining and even outsourcing have enabled North African groups to record good performances in 2021-2022.
A Malian soldier of the G5 Sahel Joint Force, stationed in Boulikessi, Burkina Faso. © Frederic Petry/Hans Lucas via AFP

civil, religious pillar

Premium badgeUAE: Why Abu Dhabi is implicated (discretely) in the Sahel The continued presence of the United Arab Emirates in the Sahel has not yet evolved into military action, but there is still concern over the expansio...

Mauritania top stories

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...

steel & mining

Premium badgeMorocco, Egypt companies drive North African champions ranking Steel, mining and even outsourcing have enabled North African groups to record good performances in 2021-2022.
A Malian soldier of the G5 Sahel Joint Force, stationed in Boulikessi, Burkina Faso. © Frederic Petry/Hans Lucas via AFP

civil, religious pillar

Premium badgeUAE: Why Abu Dhabi is implicated (discretely) in the Sahel The continued presence of the United Arab Emirates in the Sahel has not yet evolved into military action, but there is still concern over the expansio...

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Illustration shows natural gas pipeline in front of word EU and Russia flag colours

price bump

Premium badgeMauritania: Global demand puts spring in step of Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore gas project Mauritania is set to become a major natural gas producer in late 2023 thanks to the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore project with Senegal. Wary of the ...
© Members of the Uganda National Students Association hold up signs reading “European Union Leave Our Oil” as they participate in a rally on September 29, 2022 in Kampala, Uganda. (Photo by Luke Dray / GETTY IMAGES EUROPE / Getty Images via AFP)

fossil fuel

Premium badgeAfrica oil discoveries ‘too tempting to be shunned over renewables’ Despite the global push towards renewable energy, Africa’s oil discoveries will not be sacrificed, says a senior oil expert.
Soldiers from the Russian private military company Wagner (pictured here on an unknown date in northern Mali). ©AP/SIPA.

Reassurances

Premium badgeUS doubles down on Sahel amid inroads from Russia, terrorism The Joe Biden administration sent a high-level team of diplomatic and military officials to the Sahel earlier this month to reassure local governments...
Battery cell production in a Volkswagen pilot line in Salzgitter

Critical Metals

Premium badgeFirst Quantum bets on Zambia to address global copper, nickel shortage Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals plans to restart exploration for copper and nickel in Zambia as the administration of President Hakainde Hichile...
© A man climbs down from a rooftop in the iron ore mining town of Zouerate June 23, 2014. Mauritania’s SNIM iron ore mining company aims to produce 13 million tonnes in 2014, around the same level as last year, the majority state-owned firm said. SNIM mines black iron ore in the northern town of Zouerate, a remote desert location which nevertheless attracts people from all over the country looking for work. SNIM employees proudly call their firm the lung of their nation’s economy and the train that ferries the ore to the coast stretches some two kilometres, making it one of the world’s longest. Picture taken June 23, 2014. REUTERS/Joe Penney

On the up

Premium badgeMauritania’s Ousmane Mamadou Kane: ‘We can borrow on the international markets’ Despite the economic uncertainties linked to the war in Ukraine, Mauritania’s former central bank governor remains confident in his country’s ability ...
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Gas power

Premium badgeGas: Mauritanian Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Yaha in BP’s shadow The president of logistics company Maurilog, Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Yaha, is awaiting BP’s contract decision, and gas production at the GTA field shou...