Mamadi Doumbouya has ordered foreign mining companies to build bauxite refineries to ensure fair revenue sharing. A video on the presidency’s Facebook page captures a meeting that Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya held on 8 April, in which he gave companies until the end of May to submit proposals and a timetable for constructing bauxite refineries. With…
Much of Africa has been on the receiving end of the North-South development cooperation where Western donors and multilateral institutions provide aid and technical assistance to countries on the continent. Progress has been made from this type of cooperation, but much is still needed to transform the continent. The Chinese have arrived on the scene…
In Washington DC, a city that takes pride in wonkish debates, a group of experts meeting up for drinks to discuss African politics may seem like nothing out of the ordinary. This is part 1 of a 7-part series The make-up of this recent gathering, however, was history making: In a field long dominated by older…
Home Secretary Priti Patel has hit back at critics of the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying they have failed to offer solutions. Writing in the Times with the Rwandan foreign minister, she said they had proposed an innovative answer to the “deadly trade” of people-smuggling. No “humanitarian nation” could allow that suffering…
Search operations are continuing for 63 people still missing following the devastating floods that swept through South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province last week. More than 440 people have died, including two emergency workers. Some of them swept away by swollen rivers and mudslides. The government has declared KwaZulu-Natal a disaster area after officials described the floods…
The Equatorial Guinea-flagged oil tanker, Xelo, which sank Saturday in the Gulf of Gabes along Tunisia, has been checked with divers finding no leaks from fuel-laden ship. The Tunisia branch of the World Wildlife Fund had also expressed concern about another environmental catastrophe” in the region, an important fishing zone. The Xelo was travelling from…
South African authorities have found 6 more bodies amid ongoing rescue operations following devastating flooding in the country’s east coast. KwaZulu-Natal Premier assured South Africans search missions were back in “full swing” despite having being impacted by extensive damage to the province. “As of this morning, KwaZulu-Natal received 38 callouts and on the scenes that…
South Africa’s government has declared a state of disaster in an area in the east of the country which was hit by severe flooding earlier this week, leaving more than 300 people dead and causing huge damage to homes and business. Most of the destruction has been in the Durban area of KwaZulu-Natal province, the…
The President of Niger has welcomed German’s foreign minister who is on a tour of west Africa. Annalena Baerbock arrived in Niamey on Wednesday afternoon. Mohamed Bazoum said their meeting focused on “the decades of cooperation between Niger and Germany, a very important cooperation”. The security situation, in particular terrorism, the consequences of the climate…
Angolan coffee is a brew long coveted by aficionados around the world. In the 1970s, around a quarter of a million tonnes of this original Angolan black gold was produced a year. This was interrupted by civil war, but now after nearly 20 years of peace, Angola is bouncing back and two Angolan companies are…