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Premium badgeHow supermarket giant Système U is cashing in on Casino’s retreat from Africa

The co-operative supermarket chain is enjoying a boom on the continent, partly thanks to its partnership with Monaco retailer MIM.

Labour Unions Protest Over Fuel Subsidy Removal In Lagos, Nigeria

tough times

Premium badgeThe days of African fuel subsidies are numbered To ease the burden on public finances, African countries are reducing, or even abolishing, public subsidies for petroleum products.
© The Congo Basin rainforest absorbs the equivalent of all of Africa’s carbon emissions. (Jens Grossmann/LAIF-REA)

Fair pay

Premium badgeUN joins Congo basin presidents in call for higher carbon-credit prices in Africa Developing African countries are asking for larger pollution offsets in order to preserve their environments.
Engineer Éric Armel Ndoumba, general coordinator of CARIA, on 28 June 2023 at the Université Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Kintélé, near Brazzaville. ©Arsène Mpiana for Jeune Afrique

Tomorrow today

Premium badgeBrazzaville, future African capital of artificial intelligence? A digital ecosystem is developing in the Republic of the Congo, boosted by this month’s opening of the first AI research centre in Africa.

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West, Central Africa

Premium badgeHow supermarket giant Système U is cashing in on Casino’s retreat from Africa The co-operative supermarket chain is enjoying a boom on the continent, partly thanks to its partnership with Monaco retailer MIM.
Labour Unions Protest Over Fuel Subsidy Removal In Lagos, Nigeria

tough times

Premium badgeThe days of African fuel subsidies are numbered To ease the burden on public finances, African countries are reducing, or even abolishing, public subsidies for petroleum products.
© The Congo Basin rainforest absorbs the equivalent of all of Africa’s carbon emissions. (Jens Grossmann/LAIF-REA)

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Premium badgeUN joins Congo basin presidents in call for higher carbon-credit prices in Africa Developing African countries are asking for larger pollution offsets in order to preserve their environments.

Republic of the Congo top stories

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West, Central Africa

Premium badgeHow supermarket giant Système U is cashing in on Casino’s retreat from Africa The co-operative supermarket chain is enjoying a boom on the continent, partly thanks to its partnership with Monaco retailer MIM.
Labour Unions Protest Over Fuel Subsidy Removal In Lagos, Nigeria

tough times

Premium badgeThe days of African fuel subsidies are numbered To ease the burden on public finances, African countries are reducing, or even abolishing, public subsidies for petroleum products.
© The Congo Basin rainforest absorbs the equivalent of all of Africa’s carbon emissions. (Jens Grossmann/LAIF-REA)

Fair pay

Premium badgeUN joins Congo basin presidents in call for higher carbon-credit prices in Africa Developing African countries are asking for larger pollution offsets in order to preserve their environments.

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Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale Dosso, Niger. (Wikimedia Commons/CC/ Sakou Gado)

pension politics

Premium badgeOp Ed: Francophone Africa coups focus on pension stability Health and pension rights have become a priority for African transitional authorities, who have recognised that social benefits are key to political s...
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)

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...
FILE PHOTO: Gabonese military appear on television as they announce that they have seized power following President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s re-election, in this screengrab obtained by Reuters.

Watching, waiting

Premium badgeHow will Bongo’s fall affect Biya, Obiang and Sassou? While most of Gabon’s neighbouring leaders have not officially commented on the coup d’état, they are keeping a close eye on developments.
© Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right). Mandel NGAN and Mikhail Metzel / various sources / AFP

foreign relations

Africa – Ukraine: Behind the scenes of an African mediation attempt South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of Senegal Macky Sall, Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso […] and the list goes on. ...
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Fertile Territory

Premium badgeKanga Potash plans fertiliser partnership for Republic of Congo project, CEO says Kanga Potash is in partnership talks with a fertiliser industry operator over its project in the Republic of Congo, CEO Achim Strauss tells The Africa...