Two French Mirage 2000 fighters and a transport aircraft will visit Chad for training, France’s military says, giving practical shape to renewed defence ties nearly two years after N’Djamena ended the countries’ longstanding military agreement.
A humanitarian organisation says a new Macina assistance project has received its first funding advance but still awaits administrative clearance to begin, while displaced families describe continuing shortages of food and shelter.
Mauritania’s army is to receive additional non-lethal land-surveillance equipment under a new €20 million European package, bringing bilateral support through the European Peace Facility to €75 million.
Mali’s latest regional debt sale attracted substantially more bids than the Treasury accepted, with three-year bonds providing most of the CFA44 billion raised. The securities’ settlement date was 29 October.
Niger’s cabinet has approved a mixed-ownership railway company and moved oversight of nationalised Niger-Transit to the finance ministry, changing the institutional structure behind two parts of its transport economy.
Artisanal miners and gold collectors around Tenkodogo now have a local state purchasing office, extending Burkina Faso’s effort to bring more gold into official trading channels.
Koutiala consumers are paying more for petrol sold in bottles as retailers report scarce supplies and residents say several filling stations have run out.
Niger's Mines Minister met Uranium One and TENEX officials to review an existing memorandum, days after accusing France of sabotage at the UN, with roughly 1,000 tonnes of disputed uranium still offered for sale.
France 24, La Croix and Benin Web TV retrospectives mark Ibrahim Traoré's fourth anniversary in power, days after he told reporters the state could take over importing certain goods via the agency FasoYaar.
