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04/02/2019
Algeria: Ports Reopen

Budd’s Algeria office reports that lulls in the bad weather recently experienced along the Algerian coast are now enabli...
30/01/2019
Algeria: Bad Weather Closes Ports

Bad weather along the Algerian coast has closed most of the country’s ports to traffic, including Arzew, Oran, Mostaganem, Skikda and Tenes.
22/01/2019
DR Congo: Internet Re-connected

Following official publication of the DR Congo’s presidential election results, Budd’s Kinshasa and Matadi offices have confirmed to us that internet and social media began to work again yesterday (21 January 2019).
21/01/2019
China taking steps to implement the Ballast Water Convention

China joined the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Conv...
14/01/2019
Casablanca's Port Development Plan

Budd's Casablanca office shares details of the major development plans which were published in the moroccan website "Leconomiste".
07/01/2019
Gabon: Ports Secure

Budd Gabon advised earlier today that, despite the attempted military coup which started in the night of 6 to 7 January ...
07/01/2019
DR Congo: Election Results Delayed

As reported in the press, votes are still being counted in the DR Congo’s presidential election and therefore the results were not published this weekend as originally announced (see our website alert of 2 January 2018).
02/01/2019
DR Congo: Internet Down

Following the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 30 December 2018 presidential election, Budd’s Kinshasa and Matadi offices ...
12/12/2018
New Bauxite Facilities in Guinea

As the bauxite mining industry continues to grow, Budd's Guinea office reports on a few of the latest developments.
11/12/2018
China Sulphur Emission Control Requirements Updated

Earlier this month, the China Maritime Safety Administration published a further notice on the implementation of the low...
21/11/2018
Budd China Extends its Services

We are pleased to advise that, in addition to the P&I, H&M, protecting, emergency, legal and surveying services which Bu...
05/10/2018
Eastern DR Congo Battles with Ebola and Massacres

Insecurity, rumors and suspicion are hampering the efforts of aid agencies to combat the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
01/10/2018
Nigeria: General Strike Over

Budd's Nigeria office reports that the general strike which commenced on 27 September is now over.
27/09/2018
General Strike in Nigeria - Ports at a Standstill

Budd’s Lagos office advises that a general strike of all public and private sector employees started this morning (27 September 2018).
26/09/2018
Tug Stoppage in Marseille-Fos 28 September 2018

Marseille-Fos’ tug operator, Boluda, has advised all local ship agents that on 28 September 2018, there will be no tug s...

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Algeria: Ports Reopen

Algeria: Bad Weather Closes Ports

DR Congo: Internet Re-connected

China taking steps to implement the Ballast Water Convention

Casablanca's Port Development Plan

Gabon: Ports Secure

DR Congo: Election Results Delayed

DR Congo: Internet Down

New Bauxite Facilities in Guinea

China Sulphur Emission Control Requirements Updated

Budd China Extends its Services

Eastern DR Congo Battles with Ebola and Massacres

Nigeria: General Strike Over

General Strike in Nigeria - Ports at a Standstill

Tug Stoppage in Marseille-Fos 28 September 2018

Chinese 'Ivory Queen' Yang Fenglan jailed in Tanzania

Tiny South Africa beach restaurant Wolfgat wins top award

Nigeria election: Muhammadu Buhari vows to deal with vote riggers

Cameroon kidnap: 170 students freed

Caster Semenya: South African runner's appeal against IAAF rule begins

Ethiopian teen breaks 22-year-old record

Nairobi parkour runner on why it should be in the Olympics

Vitiligo: Skin condition brought Kenyan friends closer together

Colobus monkeys in Kenya 'threatened by humans'

Tanzanian nine-year-old poet: 'I want to show everything is possible'

Somali women discuss marriage pressures

Nigeria election 2019: Father and daughter discuss the poll

Ismael Tajouri-Shradi: Proud Libyan born in Switzerland, raised in Austria

Francis Uzoho: Cypriot club Anorthosis to appeal points penalty

African Champions League: Club Africain awarded 3-0 win over Ismaily

Stoke striker Saido Berahino charged with drink-driving

2019 Cosafa Cup: Zimbabwe pulls out of hosting southern African championship

Mike Thomson: Why no-one tackles Liberia's leader

Emmanuel Igunza on the Israel deportee marooned in airport for months

Naima Mohamud: The story of a barber shop painter

In Pictures: Pain and ecstasy at the Lagos marathon

No traffic in Addis Ababa as Ethiopia marks Car Free Day

The African churches of London

The horsemen making a living on Lagos beach Nigeria

Drums, trumpets and prayer in Ethiopia

Reunions, tears and red lips in 2018

Queues amid floods in DR Congo vote

The devastating effects of drought and severe weather in Mozambique

Elizabeth Ohene: The fashion faux pas of bullet-proof vests

Waihiga Mwaura: What is it like to report a terror attack?

Brian Hungwe: Zimbabwe's fuel woes

Zeinab Mohammed Salih: Why people keep cash under the mattress in Sudan

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: 'Guilty until proven innocent in Nigeria'

Elizabeth Ohene: Africa's history makers in 2018

Sola Odunfa: How Nigeria's elite avoid 'bad education'

Brian Hungwe: Cremations 'threaten' Zimbabwe's ancestral spirits

Eskom crisis: Why the lights keep going out in South Africa

Africa's week in pictures: 8-14 February 2019

Five things about Nigeria: Superpower with no power

Nigeria election 2019: Do the promises stack up?

Nigeria election 2019: Mapping a nation in nine charts

Nigeria election 2019: The passion and fashion of campaigning

Nigerian elections 2019: The spread of false information

Does Nigeria's 'generation democracy' want to vote?

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