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Around the same time, the Government agreed to suspend the exemption from VAT on imports from mining firms. The Congolese authorities revoked the VAT exemption given to mining operators in the Democratic Republic of Congo and encouraged them to repatriate 60% of their...

The World Bank believes that a Continental Free Trade Area will have beneficial effects for Africa. Not so much by itself as by what it entails in terms of economic reforms, productivity gains, and better governance. The World Bank publishes a voluminous report extolling...

Former French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner officially announced on Friday 31 July his candidacy for the presidency of the majority group in the General Assembly in September. After François de Rugy, he is the second declared candidate to succeed Gilles Le Gendre; who has...

Pillar of the Alassane Ouattara regime, Hamed Bakayoko, 55, was appointed prime minister on Thursday, July 30, three months before the presidential election, and three weeks after the sudden disappearance of Amadou Gon Coulibaly, of whom he was acting. Perceived as the "Mr. Security" of the regime,...

The US is attempting to pull almost 12,000 troops out of Germany in a move the Pentagon insisted on being a long-term strategy; but Donald Trump said it would be to punish Berlin for low defense spending. Out of 11,900 personnel leaving Germany on the proposal;...

How to assess the capacity of African states to repay their debt? What attitude should be adopted between bilateral creditors and financial markets? The explanations of Bloomfield Ratings allow us to understand the judgment of rating agencies. Aside from high-income countries, African countries are...

On Monday, July 27th; the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved emergency aid of 4.3 billion dollars (3.7 billion euros) for South Africa, whose already fragile economy is being tested by the pandemic; the institution announced in a press release. The...

If Cameroon gets through the health crisis as best it can, it must face a drop in its revenues, as well as the low morale of its businesses. On this point, the employers' organization, Gicam, has once again sounded the alarm. This is not...

"The recovery plan is going to be a green plan," the economy minister Bruno Le Maire said in Le Journal du Dimanche. According to Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire in Le Journal du Dimanche, EUR 30 billion should be devoted to the ecological shift...

According to the UNDP, a provisional minimum income allocated to the world's poorest could slow the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic. It would allow nearly three billion people to stay at home during the pandemic. The UNDP (United Nations Development Program) has just published...