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Bram Posthumus is an independent press and radio journalist with 30 years’ experience living and working in West Africa. He reports on political, cultural and business events for radio, press and online media in UK, Germany, South Africa and the Netherlands. He is based in Abidjan.
Politics has upended the cocoa sector in the West African country, where unrealistic election promises have met stark market realities
Airlines in the region are expanding and (shocker) making an occasional profit
Côte d’Ivoire has launched an agricultural commodities exchange – the first of its kind in Francophone West Africa
The oil and gas sector in Africa has been plagued by a lack of commitment to transparency by state institutions. Senegal plans to change that
Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah beat four other candidates to become president of the AfDB. He’s got his work cut out for him