AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoFrance–Africa Summit in Nairobi: Macron and Ruto closed the Africa Forward Summit with a €23bn investment pledge and a push to take Africa’s borrowing costs to the G7, while Ruto repeated “sovereignty” and warned against dependency. Sahel security pressure: Mali’s April attacks are being framed as a shift from insurgency to wider territorial control, while Mali also rejects “Bamako blockade” claims as a French media PR campaign. Ghana health upgrade: President Mahama commissioned a PET-CT cancer scan facility in Accra and said blanket tax exemptions for imported medical equipment are over—future requests will be judged case-by-case. West Africa governance: Burkina Faso’s parliament adopted protocols strengthening the Alliance of Sahel States, and ECOWAS lawmakers debated a “Compact” to reshape regional integration amid insecurity. Local industry moves: Togo and Germany discussed modernising the Port of Lomé and tackling Gulf of Guinea piracy; Ghana also faces an egg-market shock as foreign-backed farms flood supply.
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