Trade and exchange

About 100 Israeli tourists who arrived in Morocco on the first direct commercial flight between the two countries were greeted with dates, cakes and mint during a welcome ceremony. Seven months later normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco, this first flight started frequent flights. Israir operates two to three…

Post-covid revival in Senegal: the government focuses in particular on the agricultural sector, which employs about 60% of the working population. The aim is to strengthen food sovereignty, but also to promote the export of fruit and vegetables produced in Senegal. An ambition was confirmed at the first international agricultural fair in the north held near Saint-Louis (in the north of the country) at…

The Ivorian government is now forcing multinational companies to give up 20% of their export contracts to Ivorian operators. A measure aimed at avoiding the suffocation of Côte d'Ivoire traders who have long condemned the unfair competition of multinational companies currently in a virtual monopoly position on Côte d'Ivoire in the purchase and export of cocoa.…

Between the 2018-2019 season and today, the cultivated areas have 10,000 hectares. South Africa is a very small producer country on an African and even regional scale, behind Zimbabwe and Zambia. So if its surface area thereby decreases, what future for the sector? From our correspondent in Johannesburg,The harvest is taking…

The Paris summit on the financing of African economies was held on Tuesday 18 Might. A serious worldwide assembly, centered on the thorny subject of debt, by which China participated, by video convention. In the event you put a number of financial urge for food to Beijing in Africa, Chinese language funding remains to be in sharp decline and the main focus of the debt service is altering.…

In Algeria, firms are referred to as by the presidency to conclude agreements with overseas firms, particularly Moroccan ones, which might hurt the nation and its safety. In accordance with this letter from the Algerian president, dated April 25 (however because the native press has simply repeated), the businesses involved have ten days to observe these directions.…

The stainless Ndabaneze was thanked for risking, in accordance with the presidency, her actions "compromising the nation's economic system and damaging Burundi's picture". She is suspected of embezzlement and is accused of getting offered the final aircraft in the corporate Air Burundi with out the consent of the Burundian authorities.…

The World Food Program (WFP) is sounding the alarm about rising food prices in West Africa, a region already weakened by conflict. It could drive more than 31 million people to food insecurity as the lean season approaches. In West and Central Africa, WFP is calling avoid a "food disaster". More than 31 million people in the region are expected to become food safe in the region, a figure more than 30% higher than last year. And according to WFP, this figure represents the highest level in almost ten years. On average,…

The Minister for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness of France, Franck Riester, traveled to Nigeria from Monday 12 April to Wednesday 14 April, in particular to prepare for the May 18 Summit on Financing the African Economy and the Africa Summit - France from Montpellier, scheduled for July. After an exchange in Abuja with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Nigerian Governors' Forum, he went to Lagos on…

It is final, the exploitation of the Cominak mine; north of Niger; ends today because its reserves are depleted. A closure that takes place in a global context that is characterized by still very low prices, which undermines the mine's profitability. But China is expected to revive the market in the coming years. After 40…