Author: Mamadou Aliou Diallo

At the end of September 2025, Algeria’s hydrocarbon export revenues reached $31 billion, according to Algerian Minister of Hydrocarbons and Mines, Mohamed Arkab, during the examination of the draft budget law for the year 2026. This amount represents a decrease of about 8.8% compared to the same period in 2024, when exports had reached $34...

After two years at the helm of the company. The announcement was made on Sunday, October 26, 2025, by the Algerian public television, without any official reason given for this departure. Rachid Hachichi, appointed in October 2023, then succeeded Toufik Hakkar, who was also removed from his position after four years of leadership. He is...

Air Senegal received its fourth L410-NG on October 21, 2025, as part of an order for five aircraft to strengthen domestic services. This acquisition, part of the fleet modernization, will help better connect remote regions of Senegal. To operate these aircraft, 35 Senegalese agents, pilots, and technicians will undergo a 45-day training program as part...

King Mohammed VI presided over the launch of construction works for the Safran industrial complex dedicated to aircraft engines on Monday, October 13, 2025 in Nouaceur. Located in Midparc, a free zone within the country’s first economic hub, this project represents an investment of 3.4 billion dirhams, or over 336 million dollars. The aeronautical complex...

Malian authorities announced on October 11, 2025, the establishment of a visa bond system for American citizens wishing to travel to Mali. This measure is in response to Washington’s decision to require Malian citizens to provide a mandatory bond of $5,000 to $10,000 to obtain a US visa. Described by Bamako as a “sovereign and...

Congolese cobalt is experiencing a spectacular rebound according to data presented by Congolese authorities on Friday, October 3, 2025. According to the government, ore prices have surged by nearly 92% since March 2025, after reaching their lowest level in nine years. Applauding the effects of its embargo on Congolese cobalt. Cobalt has thus risen from...

The Authority for the Regulation and Control of Markets for Strategic Mineral Substances (ARECOMS) announced on Saturday, September 20, 2025, the extension, until October 15, 2025, of the temporary suspension of cobalt exports. This measure will come into effect starting on Sunday, September 21, 2025. As of October 16, 2025, this suspension will be replaced...

Guinea secured a seat on the Postal Operations Council (POC) of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) on Thursday, September 18, following an election. The announcement was made during the 28th UPU Congress in Dubai, attended by the Guinean Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Rose Pola Pricemou. Just one day before the conclusion of this congress where member states discuss the major strategic orientations of the global postal sector, Guinea gains access, for the first time since joining the UPU in September 1959, to this decision-making body. According to Conakry, this election is the result of reforms undertaken to modernize Guinean…

Royal Air Maroc launched a new air route directly connecting Morocco and Chad on Wednesday, September 17. This opening brings the total number of African destinations served non-stop by the Moroccan national airline to 29. On the night of September 17-18, 2025, a Royal Air Maroc plane departed from Casablanca at 11:40 pm and landed...

The inflation rate in Nigeria stood at 20.12% in August 2025, down from 21.68% in July 2025, according to figures released on Monday, September 15 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), representing a decrease of 1.76% between July and August 2025. This downward trend has been confirmed for the fifth consecutive month. On an...

The Gabonese government signed, on September 12, 2025, a framework agreement with Asia Minerals Limited LLC, a Japanese company specializing in manganese processing. The goal is to produce 400,000 tons of alloys of this strategic mineral on site starting from January 1, 2029. A major economic opportunity for the world’s second largest manganese producer. Gabon...

Burkina Faso has decided, on Thursday, September 11, 2025, to make visas free for all African nationals. This strong decision is in line with the pan-African vision of the Transition President, Ibrahim Traoré, according to the Burkinabe government. This is a removal of visa fees, not the requirement to obtain a visa. Burkina Faso is...

The grand inauguration, on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) by Addis Ababa sounds like a national success. But behind this highly strategic project lies a real risk of regional instability in the years to come: the non-consensual management of the Nile. The disagreement surrounding the GERD is rooted in...

Ethiopian authorities are planning to inaugurate, on Tuesday, September 9, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), built on the Blue Nile, presented as the largest in Africa. The project, whose foundation stone was laid since April 2011, has been the subject of strong criticism from neighboring Egypt and Sudan. The GERD, whose images are plentiful...

First long-haul daily route to Paris from October 1, 2025 Abidjan, Thursday, September 4, 2025 – Air Côte d’Ivoire received its first Airbus A330-900neo at Félix-Houphouët-Boigny airport, the first wide-body aircraft in its fleet. The aircraft is configured in four classes: 4 seats in First Class, 44 in Business Class, 21 in Premium Economy, and...

Things are moving quickly for the American company KoBold Metals in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Financed by, among others, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, to develop the lithium deposit in Manono, KoBold Metals announced on August 27, 2025, that it had been granted seven lithium exploration permits. Despite the efforts and investments made by...

The Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (AIAST) in Conakry recorded an increase in passenger traffic during the first half of 2025. According to figures published this weekend by SOGEAG, the manager of Guinea’s airports, the number of passengers reached 446,335, compared to 371,378 during the same period in 2024, representing an increase of more than...

The commercial operations of the new airline Domestic Airlines, a subsidiary of Air Algérie, will officially launch on Monday, August 25, 2025. Its first flight will connect, according to the company, Algiers to Tamanrasset aboard a Boeing 737-800. Domestic Airlines will initially take over the fleet of the former Tassili Airlines, consisting of 15 aircraft...

The Algerian state-owned oil and gas company Sonatrach inaugurated, on August 20, 2025, the Aïn Tsila gas complex located in the northwest of the Illizi province, equipped with two processing trains with a capacity of 12 million cubic meters/day of gas, 1,800 tons/day of condensate, and 1,600 tons/day of LPG. The infrastructure also includes a...

The 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is coming to an end this Friday, August 22, 2025 in Yokohama, bringing together approximately 5,000 participants. Tokyo’s main objective is to increase investments from its companies in the African continent. In this context, Japan plans to mobilize $1.5 billion to support Africa. This fund aims...

Air Algérie announced on Friday, July 4, 2025 that it has placed an order for 16 new ATR 72-600 aircraft and an ATR 72-600 flight simulator, the first of its kind in Africa, with manufacturer ATR. This is a record order, as it is the largest order ever placed by ATR with an African operator. The last deliveries of ATR aircraft to Air Algérie were in 2008 and 2014. The deliveries of the new aircraft are scheduled between 2026 and 2028. These ATR 72-600 aircraft, equipped with PW127XT engines, will have 72 seats and will be operated by a new…

Around 9.8% in 2018 before registering a slight decrease in 2019 to 9.5% and then rising again in 2020 to 10.4%, headline inflation recorded an increase of +1 , 6 and currently stands at 12% (2021). The latter trend is one of the main preliminary findings of a virtual staff assessment mission to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that took place from April 14 to 28, 2021. A situation which is explained, according to the services of the fund, by the increase in recent months in food prices and freight costs, associated with the disruption of supply circuits linked to…

Everything seemed to be prepared in advance. Following the announcement of the creation of the UEFA Champions League breakaway European Super League, US bank JP Morgan has officially announced that it is on the move to finance the operation. Its investment will be between 4 and 6 million euros. JP Morgan, which is banking on an explosion in marketing revenues, ticketing and TV rights, among others, for the return on investment will have to pay 350 million euros that it had promised to each of the 12 dissident European clubs at the base of the creation of the Super League.…

The microfinance sector in Guinea is highly concentrated with 25 microfinance institutions (MFIs), 22 of which are active and significant disparities in terms of market targeting. According to World Bank forecasts, competition is expected to increase in the coming years with the entry into service of new players. Four MFIs outrageously dominate the microfinance sector in Guinea (CRG, Yete Mali, Finadev and Cofina). In 2016, they alone represented 96% of outstanding savings and 87% (84% in 2017) of outstanding loans. The market shares of Crédit rural de Guinée (CRG), which dominates the podium, represented during the same year between 85…

A few days before his departure from the White House and the inauguration of Joe Biden, Donald Trump continues his war of attrition. Its threat of “shutdown” which hung over Washington in recent days has finally been lifted. After much negotiation, the outgoing president signed in extremis on the evening of Sunday, the famous economic stimulus plan of 900 billion dollars voted by the congress and thus preserving the allocations to 14 million Americans to thatching. Donald Trump took the risk of causing a shutdown of public services in the US administration as was the case in 2018, blocking the…

For a world first, the enthusiastic British authorities hope that the vaccination campaign which has started heralds the “beginning of the end”. The day is even described by some officials as “V-Day” alluding to the end of World War II. This December 8 at Coventry University Hospital, Margaret Keenan, soon to be 91, is the first patient in the United Kingdom to benefit from the promising vaccine developed by the American firm Pfizer and the German start-up BioNTech. The British authorities after approving the recommendations of the independent regulatory agency for medicines and health products (MHRA) which ensures that the…

By Mamadou Aliou Diallo, Conakry. Faced with the determination of the National Forum for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), the Alpha Condé regime now seems to privilege “diplomacy”. Having finally authorized the NDFC march of this Thursday, October 24, 2019, the power has offered a life-size survey. The street opposes any constitutional change, with or without a third term. This is the message chanted by thousands of Guineans who swept through the streets throughout the country. The monster demonstration is added to the one organized the day before and which saw women protesting the killings. The motto remains unchanged:…

Turkey does not just want to have one of the best airlines in the world, Turkish Airlines, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated this Monday, October 29, 2018 in Istanbul, one of the largest airports in the world. world. Aware of its geostrategic position for Civil Aviation, the Turkish authorities want to make Istanbul a hub for long-haul correspondence between the old continent, Asia and Africa. Istanbul Yeni Havalimani is the name of this architectural gem with a capacity of 90 million passengers per year, far from the 103.9 million passengers at the Atlanta airport in the United States. It…

Things seem to be accelerating for the Chalco Guinea Company, a subsidiary of the Chinalco Group. Six months after the signing of its 15-year mining agreement with Guinea, the Chinese company officially started on Sunday (October 28th) its integrated bauxite-alumina project in Boffa, in the north-west corridor of the country. This operating agreement is part of the agreement “mining resources against financial loans” between Guinea and China. This highly strategic fire baptism for the Middle Kingdom took place in the presence of the Guinean Prime Minister Kassory Fofana, and Du Xiaowen, the number one of the Chinalco group to whom…

This decision made public Wednesday, October 10, 2018 by the regulatory authority of posts and telecommunications (ARPT) has the effect of a bomb for employees and all stakeholders in the value chain that revolved around the fourth country phone company. Arriving in Guinea in 1993, before Areeba (now MTN Guinea), Orange Guinea and Cellcom under the name TELECEL Guinea, before being renamed Intercell Guinea, this company after more than four decades of activity has never known impose on its competitors because of the low level of investment and the lack of rigorous and ambitious leadership. It had only 1% market…