Via Reuters, a report on Chad’s $30 billion development plan: Chad’s national development plan seeks $30 billion in public and private investment as it pursues growth in areas including digitalisation and infrastructure, the Central African country’s Finance Minister Tahir Hamid Nguilin said on Tuesday. The plan called “Chad Connection 2030” is backed by the International Monetary Fund, […]
Read more »Via VOA, a report on how the Sahel vacuum provides opportunities for China: Stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, Africa’s Sahel region is experiencing security problems and surging anti-Western sentiment that could prove an opportunity for China, analysts say. China’s top diplomat was in the volatile Sahel last week as a part […]
Read more »Via North Africa Post, an article on King Mohammed VI’s initiative to facilitate Sahel states access to the Atlantic Ocean: Sahel States have lauded King Mohammed VI’s initiative aiming to facilitate their access to the Atlantic Ocean, as a “highly important strategy” for co-development and prosperity in the region and as a move that will […]
Read more »For Pan African Review, Charles Onyango-Obbo traces the emergence and rise in the popularity of Toyota vehicles in Africa to the ideological shift in early independence days, the 1987 Chadian–Libyan War and now the ongoing Sudan conflict. He notes that the Toyota brand became a symbol of power and prestige to the ruling elite, against […]
Read more »Via The Africa Report, a report on Chad’s gum arabic industry: As the world’s second largest producer of acacia gum, Chad is benefitting from rising prices linked to the war in neighbouring Sudan. But to meet global demand for this essential raw material for the food and pharmaceutical industries, it needs to find ways to […]
Read more »Via The Africa Report, a report on Chad and Equatorial Guinea – two countries that benefited from major oil discoveries in the late 1990s. But more than two decades later, despite billions of dollars in revenue, nothing has changed for the overwhelming majority of the population: In 1996, Equatorial Guinea and its 1.5 million inhabitants struck […]
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