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China’s zero-tariff offer: what can Central Africa actually sell?

Beijing has promised duty-free access to its market for African countries that recognise it. The offer removes the tariff. It does not remove the standards, the logistics or the volumes...
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Aliko Dangote, the man who sells Africa to itself

Cement, sugar, fertiliser and now the continent’s biggest refinery. Africa’s wealthiest industrialist has built an empire on import substitution. Central Africa is one of the markets he has not yet...
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Oil-backed loans: the region’s oldest habit

Borrow against tomorrow’s barrels to pay today’s bills. Chad did it, Congo did it, Gabon did it again in April. The mechanism is legal, expensive and almost impossible to see...
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Afreximbank’s $1bn film fund: anatomy of a promise

First announced in Cairo in late 2023, relaunched in Algiers, “launched” in Kigali and finally given a manager in July 2026, Afreximbank’s pan-African film fund still carries the same headline...
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The blackout paradox: new dams, old darkness

Cameroon has added the largest hydropower plant in its history. Households still count their outages in hours per day. The gap between generation and supply is where the money goes...
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The Chairman Problem

Six months apart, the same regulator issued two decisions about two Cameroonian microfinance institutions placed under supervision in the same wave. One got a liquidator. The other got its keys...
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Africa at IFTM 2026: A Francophone Shop Window, and What Anglophone Destinations Left on the Table

Tanzania sent fifteen companies and an ambassador. Zimbabwe’s tourism minister appeared on the speaker list. Past that, the continent’s largest annual pitch to the French travel trade was conducted almost...
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What Yaoundé kept after the WTO left town

Cameroon hosted the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in March, only the second held on African soil. Ministers left without a declaration. The question now is what the host gained....
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AGOA’s one-year lease runs out in 100 days

Washington’s flagship trade preference programme was rescued in February and expires again on 31 December. For most of Central Africa, the deadline is academic: the region was already locked out....
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Who Actually Banks the Entrepreneur?

A scored ranking of ten Central African banks on SME and young-entrepreneur finance — and an account of what the score cannot see No bank in Central Africa publishes the...
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The Full-Vault Paradox

Why Central Africa’s banks do not finance Central Africa — and what architecture could make them I. Anatomy of a rational bank — II. Bankability is not a quality of...
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The Bloc That Speaks in Half-Sentences

BRICS’s New Delhi summit showed a group big enough to rival the West economically — and divided enough to avoid saying so out loud NEW DELHI — For two days...
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What Celine Dion Didn’t Do

Trajectoire — Portrait No. 14 The last great live-music fortune built without owning the masters On Saturday 12 September, a 58-year-old woman who lived with the symptoms of an incurable...
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The Douala Exception

Commercial Bank Cameroun spent seven years under provisional administration. NFC Bank spent twelve. IDEV never came out at all. On 11 September 2026, NOFIA S.A. walked out after twelve months....
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