Gabon’s public debt drops below 70% of GDP after audit
Gabon now has a clearer picture of its public debt. Following an audit initiated by the state and finalized as of December 31, 2025, the consolidated stock was set at 9,524.643 billion CFA francs, down from nearly 11,700 billion at the start of the process. The debt ratio now stands at 68.91% of gross domestic […]
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Digitalisation du foncier au Gabon : le Ministre de l’Économie rejoint le protocole avec SNEDAI GROUPE
Digitalisation du foncier au Gabon : le Ministre de l’Économie rejoint le protocole avec SNEDAI GROUPE par · 15 septembre 2026 éorte sur la mise en place d’un système foncier et cadastral entièrement informatisé, sécurisé et interconnecté. L’objectif est notamment de fiabiliser les données, d’améliorer la localisation des parcelles, de réduire les risques de doublons […]
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Niger’s uranium output collapses as SOMAÏR blames logistics for a technical failure
For years, the teams running the Société des mines de l’Aïr were paraded as living proof that Niger could pull uranium out of the ground without a single foreign engineer on site. The production figures for the opening months of 2026 have punctured that narrative in the most brutal way possible. The numbers coming out […]
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Defections, shortages and Russian fire: inside the cracks in Niger’s army
More than eighteen months have passed since the 26 July 2023 coup that placed General Abdourahamane Tiani at the head of Niger, and the patriotic façade erected by the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP) is cracking in spectacular fashion. Behind the sovereignty rhetoric and the military parades lies a far grimmer […]
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The Alliance of Sahel States owes the regional market more than 7,700 billion CFA francs
Three governments that have staked their political identity on financial autonomy are, in practice, among the busiest borrowers on West Africa’s shared bond market. As of 31 July 2026, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the three members of the Alliance of Sahel States, carried a combined 7,727.38 billion CFA francs in outstanding public securities on […]
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Benin schools reopen nationwide on 14 september 2026
A nationwide return to classrooms on 14 september Across Benin, the 2026 school year began in earnest on Monday 14 september, as pupils and teachers filled schools from the far north to the coastal south. Primary schools and secondary institutions alike reopened their gates, gradually settling back into the rhythm of lessons, timetables and daily […]
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Niger’s SONIDEP faces a 28 billion FCFA loss in 2026 as fuel subsidies bite
Keeping petrol affordable at the pump is proving far costlier than Niger’s government bargained for. New projections from the International Monetary Fund sketch a worrying outlook for the national oil company, SONIDEP, which is on course to close the 2026 financial year with a net loss of 28 billion FCFA — the combined result of […]
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Burkina Faso’s Texforces-bf: how Ibrahim Traoré is gambling with retirees’ money
Texforces-bf: an industrial flagship built on borrowed confidence Touted as a pillar of economic sovereignty and a driver of Burkina Faso’s industrialisation, the TEXFORCES-BF textile scheme enjoys unmistakable official enthusiasm. Yet beneath the determined rhetoric, the project’s financial architecture and the terms of its implementation invite hard questions. Taken together — levies on pension reserves, […]
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Niger’s external liabilities climb past 12,900 billion FCFA, laying bare a shifting dependence
In Niamey, the official narrative keeps celebrating a clean break and economic emancipation. The ledger says something else entirely. At the close of the 2024 financial year, Niger’s international investment position was buried deep in negative territory, painting the portrait of an economy that remains structurally tied to foreign capital. Foreign claims that dwarf national […]
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Benin’s school canteens now feed 1.9 million children every school day
School feeding in Benin has moved onto a different scale. When classes resume for the 2026-2027 year, close to 1.9 million pupils will sit down to a hot meal on every day of teaching, compared with 1.4 million twelve months earlier. That is roughly half a million extra children brought into the scheme in a […]
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Sifi Grine in Bamako: Mali’s junta bows to Algiers after months of defiance
Bamako put on its full ceremonial face on Monday. Inside the salons of the Koulouba palace, Algeria’s prime minister, Sifi Grine, appeared side by side with the man who holds Mali’s levers of power, army corps general Assimi Goïta. The choreography was meant to look historic and soothing: two Saharan neighbours mending a broken bond. […]
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Martinez Zogo case in Cameroon: key investigator’s hearing concludes
Martinez Zogo case in Cameroon: key investigator’s hearing concludes By Richard Onanena Tue 15 September 2026 at 3:26 PM UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see our articles on Google. With our correspondent in Yaoundé, Richard Onanena Colonel Jean-Pierre Otoulou took the stand to defend his investigation. He claimed to possess evidence, notably […]
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