Author (s) : Natasha Odendaal , Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Source: Mining Weekly Date of publication: January 2017 Original document The $700-million planned injection by Chinese State-owned mining company Shandong Iron and Steel into an iron-ore processing plant at the Tonkolili mine, in Sierra Leone, has further cemented the West African region’s strong mining outlook, BMI Research said on Friday. The new investment, which was described…

Author (s) : Standard Times Press Date of publication: May 2018 Original document One of Sierra Leone’s most successful and biggest mining company with stakes in the Port Loko District, Bombali  and Tonkolili Districts is on the verge of collapse with thousands of Sierra Leoneans probably going out of employment if Shandong Iron Ore Mining, a…

Author (s) : International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Development Association (IDA) Date of publication: June 19, 2017 Original document With the accumulation of external debt arrears, Chad is currently in debt distress and the debt sustainability analysis shows that debt is unsustainable without external commercial debt restructuring. Two external debt indicators exhibit protracted…

Auteur (s) :  Centre autonome d’études et de renforcement des capacités pour le développement au Togo (CADERDT) Le CADERDT a été créé à l’initiative du Gouvernement togolais avec l’appui de la Fondation pour le Renforcement des Capacités en Afrique (ACBF). Les activités du CADERDT sont essentiellement la recherche, la formation, le dialogue, le développement, la gestion…

Author (s) : The Doing Business project The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. The Doing Business project, launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. By gathering and analyzing comprehensive quantitative…

Author (s) :  Clement Uwiringiyimana, Joe Bavier Date of publication: 24 May 2018 Source: Reuters Original document That seven-page letter set Africa in the cross-hairs of the new administration’s ‘America First’ trade ideology, pitting the world’s largest economy against tiny Rwanda over an unlikely U.S. export: cast-off clothes. In March, the USTR warned Rwanda it would lose…

Auteur (s) :  Groupe de recherche et d’information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP) Le Groupe de recherche et d’information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP) est un centre de recherche indépendant fondé à Bruxelles en 1979. Composé de vingt membres permanents et d’un vaste réseau de chercheurs associés, en Belgique et à l’étranger,…