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Budd’s DR Congo offices in Kinshasa and Matadi are pleased to report that although the 3 April general strike brought all business activity outside the ports to a standstill, no ​violent incidents were reported.

When the talks aimed at securing the departure of President Kabila and the transition to a new government broke down on 28 March 2017, demonstrators took to the streets in Kinshasa.

Budd’s Conakry office advises that violent demonstrations took place yesterday (20/02/17) in Guinea.

In Conakry and Kamsar, roads were blockaded with burning tyres while vandals destroyed whatever they could find including cars, ambulances and medical centres.

Like Budd’s other French offices, Budd Paris is a listed Correspondent of most of the IG P&I Clubs; It provides maritime legal advice and assistance to Clubs and their Members alike.

This morning, we received the following self-explanatory update from our Gambia office:

In recent weeks, army mutineers have been demonstrating to force the Ivorian government to give them bonuses. The movement started in Bouake on 6 January and quickly spread to other towns and regions.

​We are pleased to advise that Budd Indonesia is now an incorporated Indonesian company and subsidiary of the Budd Group together with our local partners.

As part of the Tunisian government’s four-year plan to promote durable social and economic development, a major international investment conference is being held in Tunis on 29 and 30 November 2016.

As Club Correspondents, Budd’s Douala office was pleased to contribute to the North of England’s country focus on Cameroon which is reproduced here.

The suspension of rice imports announced on 29 September 2016, may be about to end following an agreement reached between the Senegalese government and local rice importers on 10 November.