Trade/Commerce Continental & Global Trade (AfCFTA & Exports)
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The Geopolitical Chess Match Over Niger’s Uranium
Niger nationalizes the SOMAÏR uranium mine, stripping French firm Orano ofcontrol and citing decades of disproportionate extraction (86% of output vs….
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Niger Nationalized Its Uranium Mine Over an “86% vs. 63%”Number — But Orano Says That Number Tells Only Half theStory
Orano held a 63.4% stake in the SOMAÏR uranium mine. Between 1971 and 2024,the company had taken 86.3% of everything the mine produced. A gap that big…
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Niger Just Told an International Court “No” — Twice — &Shipped 1,000 Tonnes of Uranium Anyway
An international arbitration tribunal ordered Niger not to sell, transfer, or evenfacilitate the movement of uranium from a specific mine. In November…
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Guinea Celebrated Simandou’s Launch With aRibbon-Cutting — Then a Locomotive Dispute Left the FirstShip Stuck at Anchor for Weeks
On November 11, 2025, Guinea’s President Mamadi Doumbouya stood at a portceremony in Forécariah prefecture alongside Rio Tinto’s CEO and C…
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Guinea’s First Simandou Shipment Took 20 Years —Because the Deal That Started It Was Built on an $8.5Million Bribe
In December 2025, Guinea shipped its first cargo of Simandou iron ore to China,ending over two decades of delays on what’s considered AfricaR…
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Nigeria Became a Net Fuel Exporter in April 2026 — So WhyDid Nigerians’ Petrol Prices Keep Climbing?
In March 2026, for the first time in 66 years of oil production, Nigeria exportedmore petrol than it imported. A single refinery, running at 94% capac…
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Dangote Refinery Is Exporting 456,000 Tonnes of FuelAcross West Africa — While Fighting Its Own GovernmentOver Why It Can’t Supply Enough at Home
456,000 tonnes of refined fuel, shipped from Africa’s largest refinery to Côted’Ivoire, Cameroon, Tanzania, Ghana, and Togo between March …
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The Study That Confirmed What Everyone Feared: AGOAStill Exists, But It Barely Matters Anymore
Exports from AGOA countries to the US have fallen 34.7% under the current tariffregime. AGOA itself is still technically in force. It just doesn’…
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The Supreme Court Struck Down Trump’s Tariffs. The WhiteHouse Replaced Them Before the Ruling Was a Day Old.
On February 20, 2026, in a 6-3 decision, the US Supreme Court told PresidentTrump plainly that he never had the legal authority to impose his sweeping…
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AGOA Got Extended to 2026 — After Congress Let It Die atMidnight, Buried Under an Unrelated Shutdown
Roughly 800,000 African livelihoods, in Kenya alone, tied to a single US tradeprogram. Nearly 67,000 direct jobs in Kenyan apparel factories, three-qu…