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According to local press reports, on 7 December 2024, the Managing Director of Guinea's Customs Services, Mousssa Camara, his deputy Macky Diallo, and nine other people including accountants and freight forwarders, were arrested for the alleged...

Budd Mozambique advised this morning that protests against alleged rigging of the 9 October 2024 general elections were now preventing our surveyor from reaching the port of Pemba in northern Mozambique. Electoral authorities announced that the...

Following Budd New Caledonia's June update (https://www.budd-pni.com/noumeas-port-and-airport-closed/), the curfew in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia was finally lifted at the beginning of the week on Monday, 2 December 2024. A few...

Ever wondered why negotiating cargo claims or retrieving bank guarantees can be so tough in Algeria? One of the reasons is that under Algerian anti-corruption laws, an error or oversight which has led to “bad business results” exposes the...

A ban has brought a stop to all Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) bauxite operations in Kamsar, Guinea. All other Guinean bauxite exporters are continuing to operate. The ban is thought to result from a dispute between the Guinean state and GAC, a...

The Harbour Master's office has reminded all Takoradi port stakeholders that a military firing exercise is to take place tomorrow, Friday 25 October 2024 from 0900 to 1600 hours. The full coordinates of the designated firing area are to be found...

We were very touched when @Neil Watson at NorthStandard shared with us the following extract from the Standard Club’s first ever printed list of Correspondents which covered 1914-15: Neil added that we were in the illustrious company of Leopold...