Trade/Commerce Posts filed under Trade/Commerce.
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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…
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The 2022 “Burkina 2050” Protests: When a Railway Became aReferendum on Sovereignty
Hundreds of people marched through Ouagadougou under a single banner —“Burkina 2050” — demanding a French company be stripped of its autho…
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The Broken 2016 Promise on the Kaya–Tambao Extension
103 kilometers. That’s how far Burkina Faso’s railway toward Tambao’s manganese depositsactually reaches — a stretch of track that h…
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The 2022 MSC Sale & the 2025 Money-LaunderingComplaint: Did Bolloré Sell Its Way Out of Accountability?
Bolloré didn’t just sell its African ports and rail empire for €5.7 billion in 2022. It walked away with a €3.15 billion profit on that single t…
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The 1995 Privatization Handover: How Burkina Faso’sRailway Became Bolloré’s
Out of 3,470 railway workers employed by the two state companies running thisline, only 1,815 were rehired when the new private operator took over. Mo…
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How Election Support Became aBusiness Strategy for Port Control
Usually, corruption stories involve a company bribing an official with cash. Thisone is different. The alleged currency here wasn’t money changi…