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King Mohammed VI, in Rabat, on 8 October 2021. © Azzouz Boukallouch/MAP

all-Moroccan project

Five things to know about Morocco’s new water highway

With a length of 66.7km, it has a dual objective: to improve agricultural irrigation, and to supply drinking water to the Rabat-Casablanca axis.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

friendly foes

Premium badgeNigeria-South Africa: A complex relationship at a crossroads President Tinubu and President Ramaphosa left New York promising constructive political and business collaboration moving forward. Here are ten things...
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo attends the 78th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Talking Shop

Premium badgeGhana’s Akufo-Addo plays to domestic gallery with UN climate, debt pitch Debt relief was top of the agenda for the countries in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF).
Josiane Tchoungui has been at the helm of ACC since 1 September. Photo supplied

High hopes

Premium badgeCameroon: Josiane Tchoungui banks on miscellaneous experience to boost cocoa outcome CEO of ACC needs to secure a steady supply of raw materials to boost production, among other challenges.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

friendly foes

Premium badgeNigeria-South Africa: A complex relationship at a crossroads President Tinubu and President Ramaphosa left New York promising constructive political and business collaboration moving forward. Here are ten things...
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo attends the 78th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Talking Shop

Premium badgeGhana’s Akufo-Addo plays to domestic gallery with UN climate, debt pitch Debt relief was top of the agenda for the countries in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF).
Josiane Tchoungui has been at the helm of ACC since 1 September. Photo supplied

High hopes

Premium badgeCameroon: Josiane Tchoungui banks on miscellaneous experience to boost cocoa outcome CEO of ACC needs to secure a steady supply of raw materials to boost production, among other challenges.

Business top stories

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

friendly foes

Premium badgeNigeria-South Africa: A complex relationship at a crossroads President Tinubu and President Ramaphosa left New York promising constructive political and business collaboration moving forward. Here are ten things...
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo attends the 78th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Talking Shop

Premium badgeGhana’s Akufo-Addo plays to domestic gallery with UN climate, debt pitch Debt relief was top of the agenda for the countries in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF).
Josiane Tchoungui has been at the helm of ACC since 1 September. Photo supplied

High hopes

Premium badgeCameroon: Josiane Tchoungui banks on miscellaneous experience to boost cocoa outcome CEO of ACC needs to secure a steady supply of raw materials to boost production, among other challenges.

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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.
A gas station attendant pumps fuel into a customer’s car at the NNPC Mega petrol station in Abuja

nationwide action

Nigeria unions call strike over fuel subsidy fallout Africa’s largest economy has seen living and transport costs heavily impacted after the government ended a petrol subsidy and also the naira.
A worker waters the site of a rare earth metals mine at Nancheng county, Jiangxi province, China, December 30, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer

Responsible Sourcing

Premium badgeAltona: China will have to accept domestic African rare-earths refining Altona Rare Earths CEO Cédric Simonet wants to sell minerals from the company’s Mozambique project to Western and Japanese markets rather than China. ...
The logo of Meta Platforms’ business group. REUTERS

stable connection

DRC: Orange, Airtel oversee Meta’s 2Africa cable The two operators have formed a joint venture Mawezi, which will oversee the management of the optical fibre cable landing station in Muanda, near the...
Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi and Taoufik Hakkar, chairman and CEO of the state-owned Sonatrach group. ©Jeune Afrique MONTAGE: YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP; Billel Bensalem/NurPhoto via AFP

energy plays

Premium badgeSonatrach, QatarEnergy face off over gas supply to Europe From contracts under discussion to major projects already underway, Algeria’s Sonatrach and the Gulf giant are battling to bolster their status as key...
The logo of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is seen on the top of a Brussels’ office of the company in Diegem © REUTERS/Yves Herman

Seeking FX

Premium badgeEthiopia: Dashen Bank hires PwC to advise on stock-market listing Dashen Bank CEO Asfaw Alemu talks about plans to list on Ethiopia’s coming stock market, the country’s FX needs and digital versus bricks and mortar c...