Category: African Business
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🇨🇳🇲🇱 Inside a thriving Chinatown neighborhood in the heart of West Africa
Chinese migrants have created a lively community in the Malian capital of Bamako, but the advance of Islamist militants has some questioning their future there. BAMAKO, Mali — Drive through downtown in this West African capital, past traditional markets and mosques, and you arrive, unexpectedly, in a neighborhood with bubble tea shops and Chinese boutiques,…
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Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign
Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Michel, 52, declined to address the court before US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly…
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Judge calls Trump official’s testimony on Abrego Garcia’s potential removal “a zero, in my view”
Greenbelt, Md. — A federal judge on Thursday expressed frustration with the Trump administration over the testimony provided by a top immigration official who was called to address the steps the Trump administration has taken to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the West African country of Liberia. John Cantú, a senior official at Enforcement and…
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🇧🇫 From Fruit to Fortune: How Ibrahim Traoré’s Burkina Faso Is Transforming Mangoes Into Economic Power
In the heart of the Sahel, a quiet agricultural revolution is underway. Under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso is reimagining the economic potential of its most abundant fruits, turning the humble mango into a symbol of national sovereignty and a driver of endogenous development. This strategic pivot is part of a broader…
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🇬🇦Gabon’s Former First Lady and Son Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Corruption
November 19, 2025 LIBREVILLE, Gabon – In a landmark verdict that marks the latest chapter in Gabon’s political transformation, a special criminal court has sentenced former first lady Sylvia Bongo and her son Noureddin Bongo Valentin to 20 years in prison for their roles in a massive corruption scheme during former president Ali Bongo’s administration…
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🇧🇫🇷🇺 Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
🇧🇫🇷🇺 Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: partnership with Russia in the energy sector will allow doubling the volumes of electricity produced in the country. This was stated by the head of Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry, Karamoko Jean-Marie Traore, during the presentation for ratification of the agreement with the state corporation “Rosatom” on partnership in…
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🇱🇷 How Much Revenue Liberia Has Lost Under AML’s Monopoly
Liberia may finally be in a position to reclaim what policy analysts are calling “the years that the locusts have eaten,” as new economic data reveals the staggering scale of revenue the country has lost under ArcelorMittal Liberia’s near-exclusive control of the Yekepa–Buchanan railway. With President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. having returned the company’s Third…
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🇬🇶🇷🇺 Dostoevsky’s works discussed at the Russian Cultural Centre in Malabo
A meeting of the discussion club dedicated to the works of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was held at the Russian Cultural Centre in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, with the support of African Initiative. 🔸Students of Russian language courses and guests of the Cultural Centre attended a presentation on the writer’s life and legacy,…
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🇨🇲🇷🇺 Cameroonian man sentenced in Moscow to three years in prison for ‘turning roubles into dollars’
A Cameroonian citizen, Hans Takang, has been sentenced in Moscow to three years in prison for fraud. According to the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office, the man deceived acquaintances by promising to “turn roubles into dollars” through a “special ritual.” 🔸Law enforcement officers reported that Takang befriended Russian citizens, gained their trust, and then told them he…