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Spotlight | Angola
Local fertiliser importers despair as Lourenço procrastinates over tender

The Luanda government was to organise an international tender to help local blenders secure fertilisers from overseas in order to boost the agricultural sector. After getting off to such a slow start, its seems highly unlikely it will be finalised in the short term. [...]

Published on 16/10/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Antonio Francisco de Assis
Banco de Desenvolvimento de Angola
Covid-19
DF Grupo
FertiAngola
Helios Capital Investment
Joao Lourenco
OCP
PhosAgro
Soiadubo
Solevo
Temasek Holdings
Uralchem

Ghana
Cocobod faces soaring fertiliser costs and large-scale illicit resales

Cocobod hasn't changed the price it charges cocoa farmers for fertiliser even though the international market price has gone through the roof. Meanwhile the illegal resale of the heavily subsidised fertilisers that it distributes to its Ghanaian affiliates is flourishing.

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Africa
Sanctions against Eurochem's Russian shareholder disrupt Helios's sale of Solevo

The European Union's decision on 9 March to blacklist the oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, who holds a majority stake in Eurochem, is likely to disrupt Helios's plans. The fund had been counting on the Russian-Swiss fertiliser giant to raise the stakes on Solevo against OCP.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 16.03.2022

Andrey Melnichenko, majority shareholder of Eurochem.

Angola
Lourenço tainted by anti-corruption probe into top adviser dos Anjos

João Lourenço's anti-corruption record has taken another blow after one of his closest advisers, Isaac dos Anjos, was charged with misusing funds from the state-owned Sonango oil firm to build luxury property.

Subscribers only Politics 04.05.2021

South Africa
Russian PhosAgro plots course for big break into local phosphates market

The Russian fertiliser giant has opened two warehouses in Cape Town and plans to soon do the same in Durban so it can directly sell its products to South African clients and boost its presence in the country.

Subscribers only Mining 04.02.2021

DRC
Managem and Wanbao add sulphuric acid plans to Pumpi copper and cobalt mine

The royal Moroccan mining company Managem and Chinese group Wanbao have plans to launch a sulphuric acid production line at their Congolese mine Pumpi, where they already extract copper and cobalt.

Subscribers only Mining 07.01.2021

Spotlight | Morocco, United States
OCP determined to keep hold of US market

With its ability to sell fertiliser in the United States hampered by a federal investigation, phosphate giant OCP is responding to criticism point by point and has hired an army of lobbyists to promote its products to American farmers.

Subscribers only Mining 23.10.2020

Angola
Luanda finally places fertiliser order after growing season kicks off

Even though Angola's growing season is already under way, the government has only now finally decided to launch a public tender for the importation of fertiliser and seeds.

Subscribers only Mining 23.10.2020

Mali
Fertiliser manufacturers on the rack after coup d'état

Already negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the prospects for fertiliser sales in Mali, one of the leading markets in West Africa, have deteriorated further. The recent coup d'état has increased uncertainty among international commodities producers and local blenders.

Subscribers only Mining 22.09.2020

The cotton sector should drastically reduce its cultivated areas and, consequently, its fertilizer orders.

East Africa, Southern Africa
Fertilizers: Yara goes on donation spree to hang on in race against OCP, Phosagro, Maaden

The Norwegian group Yara is using a mix of grants and infrastructure builds to promote its interests to African governments, who largely call the shots on how much fertilizer their countries order.

Subscribers only Mining 30.07.2020

Inner circles | Angola
New generation businessman Agostinho Kapaia steps into the limelight

Agostinho Kapaia has succeeded in rising through the ranks in the Angola business world thanks to his connections in the MPLA and the influence of his oligarch uncle António Mosquito.

Subscribers only Business 14.07.2020

In Focus | Africa
Moscow and Riyadh challenge Rabat on African phosphates market

Morocco's OCP, which is the leader in the fast-growing African fertilisers market, has run into increasing competition from Russia's PhosAgro and Saudi Arabia's Maaden, particularly on its west African "home" turf. The battle has been made fiercer by the direct interventions made by heads of state and governments.

Subscribers only Mining 22.06.2020

A dragline carries untreated phosphate after being dropped off on a mountain at a phosphate mine at the Boucraa factory of the National Moroccan phosphate company (OCP) situated in the southern provinces.

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Banco de Desenvolvimento de Angola
Covid-19
DF Grupo
FertiAngola
Helios Capital Investment
Joao Lourenco
OCP
PhosAgro
Soiadubo
Solevo
Temasek Holdings
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Ghana Cocobod faces soaring fertiliser costs and large-scale illicit resales

Africa Sanctions against Eurochem's Russian shareholder disrupt Helios's sale of Solevo

Angola Lourenço tainted by anti-corruption probe into top adviser dos Anjos

South Africa Russian PhosAgro plots course for big break into local phosphates market

DRC Managem and Wanbao add sulphuric acid plans to Pumpi copper and cobalt mine

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Angola Luanda finally places fertiliser order after growing season kicks off

Mali Fertiliser manufacturers on the rack after coup d'état

East Africa, Southern Africa Fertilizers: Yara goes on donation spree to hang on in race against OCP, Phosagro, Maaden

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | Angola
Local fertiliser importers despair as Lourenço procrastinates over tender

Ghana
Cocobod faces soaring fertiliser costs and large-scale illicit resales

Africa
Sanctions against Eurochem's Russian shareholder disrupt Helios's sale of Solevo

Angola
Lourenço tainted by anti-corruption probe into top adviser dos Anjos

South Africa
Russian PhosAgro plots course for big break into local phosphates market

DRC
Managem and Wanbao add sulphuric acid plans to Pumpi copper and cobalt mine

Spotlight | Morocco, United States
OCP determined to keep hold of US market

Angola
Luanda finally places fertiliser order after growing season kicks off

Mali
Fertiliser manufacturers on the rack after coup d'état

East Africa, Southern Africa
Fertilizers: Yara goes on donation spree to hang on in race against OCP, Phosagro, Maaden

Inner circles | Angola
New generation businessman Agostinho Kapaia steps into the limelight

In Focus | Africa
Moscow and Riyadh challenge Rabat on African phosphates market