Trade/Commerce Customs, Logistics & Infrastructure
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Ghostwriters: The Ghanaians Who Dreamed Up Tema’s Port Revival & Got Cut Out of the Credits
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Ask most people who modernized Tema Port, and t…
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Real Talk: Faso Rail’s Bypass Dream Is Still on the Drawing Board
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: This blog has already documented, in detail, wh…
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Pay Yourself First: How CNPC Financed, Built, and Gets Repaid by Its Own Pipeline
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: This isn’t primarily a story about the di…
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Flexin’ on Empty: Senegal’s Cargo Hub Ambitions Meet a Freight Decline
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Senegal announced plans to double its main airp…
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Sold, Not Solved: What MSC’s Purchase of Sitarail Actually Fixed
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: When Bolloré agreed to sell Sitarail to MSC in …
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Switching Lanes: How West Africa’s Sahel Cargo Found a New Way Around
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: A shipping container bound for Niamey used to t…
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Still Cookin’ After 20 Years: Nigeria’s $18 Billion Wait for the Lagos-Kano Railway
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Nigeria first signed a contract to modernize th…
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New Name, Old Game: Freetown Port’s Bolloré Bloodline
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: The company that modernized Sierra Leone’…
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New Flow: Mali’s $800 Million Bet on a River Route to the Sea
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: While JNIM’s blockade tactics have been s…
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Sittin’ in Neutral: The Dakar-Bamako Corridor’s Decade of Investment, Undone in Months
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: The World Bank and its partners have spent year…