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22/02/2019
Senegal: Electronic CTN’s Mandatory from 1 March 2019

Budd’s Dakar office has provided us with the a circular received from the Senegalese Council of Shippers and advising th...
21/02/2019
Senegal: Presidential Elections 24 February 2019

The first round of Senegal’s presidential elections will take place on Sunday, 24 February 2019.
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.

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Senegal: Electronic CTN’s Mandatory from 1 March 2019

Senegal: Presidential Elections 24 February 2019

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

Nigeria election 2019: Atiku Abubakar challenges Muhammadu Buhari

Sudan's Omar al-Bashir declares state of emergency

Mixed race in the UK: 'Wizkid and Afrobeats make me proud of my Nigerian heritage'

Algerians protest against Bouteflika's bid for fifth term

Botswana mulls lifting elephant hunting ban

Nigerian elections: Voters taken through Boko Haram danger zone

Botswana's elephant hunting dilemma

Senegal election 2019: What do youth want from their president?

Yasir Arman: Omar al-Bashir is 'politically dead'

Kenyan father tried to smuggle baby from hospital due to unpaid bills

The mystery behind Ethiopia's 'father of bees'

Nairobi parkour runner on why it should be in the Olympics

Kgatlana and Motlhalo: South African duo seal move to China

Chelsea transfer ban: Club to appeal against Fifa decision

Adel Taarabt: Benfica confirm Moroccan's return to first-team training

The Gambian Federation lose appeal over Olufade eligibility

Cameroon federation investigates concerns over player wages and contracts

Dickens Olewe: Is Africa going backwards on democracy?

Louise Dewast: Will Senegal be bowled over by big projects?

Mayeni Jones: Who benefits from Nigeria's election delay?

The artist giving leaders a bad hair day

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

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

Nigeria elections 2019: Is the country prepared?

Africa's week in pictures: 15-21 February 2019

‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’

The bakeries of Bamako in Mali

Letter from Africa: How 'cheating husbands' are linked to Sudan's protests

The blind climbers of Kilimanjaro

Why no-one tackles Liberia's leader

Niger man deported by Israel marooned in Ethiopian airport

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

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