Marchés africains et actualités économiques

Les trois Etats, soucieux de peser face à l’Iran et à l’alliance entre Israël et les Emirats arabes unis, soutiennent de plus en plus fortement les forces de Khartoum, en guerre contre les paramilitaires des Forces de soutien rapide. Riyad finance l’achat de matériel turc et pakistanais. Le prince héritier d’Arabie saoudite, Mohammed Ben Salman Al Saoud, à l’Elysée, à Paris, le 24 août 2026.

Cameroon’s cocoa export earnings fell 63% during the 2025-26 season, hit by a sharp decline in both shipments and international prices, a reversal that could cost cocoa its newly acquired position as the country’s largest export product. Cameroon exported 125,469 tons of raw cocoa beans during the season that officially ended July 15, 2026, according to data released by the National Cocoa and Coffee Board, or ONCC, at the launch of the 2026-27 season. That was 66,543 tons, or 34.7%, below the 192,012 tons shipped a year earlier.…

The fight for control of Canyon Resources, the Australian company developing Cameroon’s Minim-Martap bauxite deposit through its Camalco subsidiary, has moved into Australia’s takeover dispute system, adding another layer of uncertainty around a project already facing a funding setback. Australia’s Takeovers Panel said on Aug. 26 that it had received an application from Jeremy Raper, a minority Canyon shareholder challenging several aspects of the takeover offer launched by Dubai-based mining investment group A2MP Investments. A2MP and its associates already control 55.56% of Canyon’s voting rights. Since July 29, the group has offered A$0.05 a share for the stock it does not already own.…

Au moins 100 personnes ont été tuées lors de l’effondrement d’une mine d’or artisanale, le 18 août 2026, en Centrafrique. Un drame qui relance le débat sur de la dangerosité de ces lieux d’extraction qui opèrent dans l’illégalité.

Cameroon plans to start blocking undeclared mobile phones, tablets and other connected devices from local telecom networks on Sept. 1, three months after an initial enforcement deadline failed to take effect. The measure is part of a customs overhaul that authorities expect to generate CFA25 billion in annual revenue from mobile device imports. Finance Minister Louis Paul Motazé announced the new deadline in a statement issued Aug. 20. The measure covers devices that entered Cameroon without customs clearance after April 1, 2026, under a collection system established in the 2023 Finance Law and formally introduced in March 2026.…

Une rare vidéo de l’ancien Premier ministre, diffusée le 22 août, a relancé les interrogations au sujet de ses ambitions. Sans appareil politique autorisé en Côte d’Ivoire, où il est toujours condamné à la prison à perpétuité, il a néanmoins réorganisé son mouvement.

Camalco has injected CFA9.85 billion in cash into Camrail, nearly tripling its stake in the railway operator and giving the company behind the Minim-Martap bauxite project a larger interest in the transport network expected to carry its future mineral exports. The investment forms part of a CFA16.071 billion recapitalization of Camrail. The railway operator increased its share capital by CFA7.927 billion, or 51.8%, from CFA15.314 billion to CFA23.242 billion. An additional CFA8.143 billion was recorded as share premium. The full CFA16.071 billion, however, does not represent new cash.…

Arrivé par hasard dans le secteur aéronautique en 1984, Mesfin Tasew dirige Ethiopian Airlines, le premier transporteur africain. L’ingénieur en électronique vient d’être prolongé dans ses fonctions.

Industrial producer prices in Cameroon rose 1.4% in the first quarter of 2026 from the previous three months, driven largely by higher oil prices. The increase points to renewed cost pressures at the factory gate, although it does not necessarily mean higher prices for consumers. It was the second consecutive quarterly increase, following a 1.1% rise in the fourth quarter of 2025. Compared with the first quarter of last year, however, industrial producer prices were up a more modest 0.8%, according to an Aug. 7 report from Cameroon’s National Institute of Statistics (INS). The increase does not indicate that industrial production volumes rose.…

La bataille pour le contrôle de Canyon Resources, la société australienne qui développe le gisement de bauxite de Minim-Martap au Cameroun à travers sa filiale Camalco, prend une tournure judiciaire et réglementaire en Australie. Le Takeovers Panel, l’organisme spécialisé dans les litiges liés aux offres de rachat des sociétés cotées australiennes, a annoncé le 26 août 2026 avoir été saisi par Jeremy Raper, un actionnaire minoritaire de Canyon, qui conteste plusieurs aspects de l’offre lancée par A2MP Investments. A2MP, groupe d’investissement minier basé à Dubaï, contrôle déjà avec ses associés 55,56 % des droits de vote de Canyon.…