Ghana delays start of cocoa season as it awaits loan funds
Businessam StaffOctober 1, 2017
Ghana will delay the start of the new cocoa season as it waits for the proceeds of a $1.3 billion syndicated loan to pay farmers,
Commodity updates: Sept. 28, 2017
Businessam StaffSeptember 28, 2017
Commodities update: Sept. 26, 2017
Businessam StaffSeptember 28, 2017
Biggest gem found in a century finally sells for $53mn
Businessam StaffSeptember 26, 2017
Size isn’t everything in the diamond market, especially for the biggest gem found in more than a century and which took more than a
Oil slips after entering bull market on Kurdish export threat
Businessam StaffSeptember 26, 2017
Oil prices slipped after entering a bull market amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, while Trafigura Group and
Rwanda, Nigeria sign deal with Blackpace Group to revamp potato production, processing
Businessam StaffSeptember 22, 2017
The government of Nigeria and Rwanda have signed multimillion dollar deals with a Nigerian investor, the Blackpace Africa Group, in an
Commodities update; Sept. 21, 2017
Businessam StaffSeptember 22, 2017
Cocoa prices crashed, smugglers still making money
Businessam StaffSeptember 20, 2017
Much of Jamilatu Mohammed’s harvest of cocoa beans is sitting in a storage shed near her dilapidated mud house along Ghana’s western
African countries vow to fight illegal timber trade to boost GDP
Businessam StaffSeptember 20, 2017
African countries have pledged to tame illegal trade in timber and other forest products by ensuring that the sub-sector makes a
How diamonds fund Zimbabwe’s secret police
Businessam StaffSeptember 18, 2017
Zimbabwe’s government is using money earned from diamond exports to fund its Central Intelligence Organisation, blamed for a raft of