By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Bamada.net
In Koulikoro, producers are concerned about rising agricultural input prices as the farming season approaches. A bag of urea or NPK costs around 25,000 CFA francs, while boxes of herbicides are sold for between 2,500 and 4,500 CFA francs.
Nigeria rejects the idea of selling crude oil to domestic refineries at a capped price, while Middle Eastern producers are offering discounts of up to $37 per barrel. Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele cites available volumes and the risk to public revenue, Punch reports.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Punch ·
The Senegalese government has announced around 20 measures for the 2026-2027 agricultural marketing campaign, including paying 44 billion CFA francs in arrears to suppliers of agricultural inputs. SONACOS is to buy 250,000 tonnes of groundnuts, with the state expecting to finalise the funding soon, according to Deputy Secretary-General of the Government Lamine Sarr, quoted by APS.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: APS ·
The 2026-2027 farming season in the Mopti region is being complicated by irregular rainfall, the Niger’s low flood levels and a shortage of fertiliser. These factors are making agricultural forecasts more uncertain, according to Mali Actu.
🇲🇱 Mali · Source: Mali Actu ·
Consumer prices in Morocco rose by 1% in September 2026 compared with the previous month, driven by a 1.6% increase in food prices and a 0.4% rise in non-food products. Year on year, they increased by 0.5%, according to Morocco’s High Commission for Planning, which noted in particular a 9.4% annual increase in transport.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Yabiladi ·
Mali anti-corruption office refers 13 cases to courts in 2024Mali’s transitional president Assimi Goïta received the 2021 and 2024 reports of the Central Office for the Fight against Illicit Enrichment, presented by its president, Modibo Sacko. In 2024, the Office examined 48 cases and referred 13 to the courts, according to results presented at the handover in Koulouba, Bamako.
Obasanjo accuses Tinubu of worsening poverty in NigeriaFormer Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo accuses Bola Tinubu’s reforms of causing the naira to lose 300% of its value, falling from 500 to 1,500 nairas per dollar. He says this devaluation has sharply worsened poverty in Nigeria, according to remarks at the Financial Times Africa summit in London.The week in Africa
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