Chad Seeks $30B Investment
June 8th, 2025
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 »Sahel Vacuum Provides Opportunities For China
January 18th, 2025
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 »Sahel States Laud Morocco’s Atlantic Access Initiative
September 29th, 2024
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 »Toyota Land Cruiser, and The Rise and Fall of the 21st-Century African State
September 15th, 2024
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 »Chad’s Cash Cow Gum Arabic Fine?Tunes Its Future
September 9th, 2024
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 »Chad, Equatorial Guinea: When Oil and Development Don’t Mix
July 31st, 2024
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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