Morocco, through OCP, holds a major lever over phosphate fertilizers. But the sulphur crisis and tensions around the Strait of Hormuz recall a basic reality: producing in Africa does not mean controlling the whole chain.
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IMF figures place Egypt, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Ghana, Angola and the DRC among the largest African debtors to the institution. The ranking is accounting; its meaning is political: debt narrows the space of decision.
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The Algerian executive decree published in Official Journal No. 38 regulates private paid activity for certain teachers, researchers and specialist doctors. The text looks administrative, but it exposes a deeper issue: how can the state retain public skills when the private sector becomes an outlet for income and recognition?
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Sonatrach’s acquisition of the Augusta refinery was supposed to strengthen the downstream oil sector. But the case says more: in a rent-based economy, sovereignty is not measured only by reserves or accounting results. It is measured by productive chains, ports, inputs, standards, spare parts and the prices paid by society.
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Au Mali, l’Office du Niger n’est pas une administration agricole ordinaire : c’est une infrastructure de souveraineté. Des irrégularités financières signalées dans ce périmètre stratégique ne relèvent donc pas seulement de la comptabilité publique. Elles interrogent la manière dont l’État protège ou fragilise son propre grenier.
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Algeria wants to turn petrochemicals into a tool of industrial sovereignty. But a transformed rent does not automatically cease to be a rent.
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In Gafsa, every disruption of phosphate says more than a local conflict: it reveals a strategic rent that enriches public accounts on paper while leaving the mining territory with unemployment, pollution and social anger.
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Soft wheat is never merely an agricultural product. In Morocco, it concentrates the constraints of drought, import dependence, budgetary subsidies and the political fear of higher bread prices.
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African economic forums speak of investment, sovereignty and transformation. But a country is not transformed by announcement: it is transformed by production, employment, energy, taxation and control of value.
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A tuna quota is not just a number assigned to a fleet. It says who fishes, who processes, who exports, who earns and how a maritime resource is inserted into the national economy.
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