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L’Éthiopie et Djibouti font progresser l’opérationnalisation du poste-frontière à arrêt unique de Galafi avec le soutien de l’UE

Bishoftu, Éthiopie, 15 juillet 2026 : L’Éthiopie et Djibouti ont convenu d’une feuille de route conjointe pour opérationnaliser le poste-frontière à arrêt unique (OSBP) de Galafi, faisant progresser les réformes et renforçant leur engagement à améliorer les processus de gestion frontalière le long du corridor Éthiopie-Djibouti, qui constitue la voie d’accès principale pour plus de […]

L’ingrédient secret n’était pas le maïs

Chaque fois que les stocks de maïs viennent à manquer, la production ralentit chez Unibrain Industries Limited, au Kenya. Les livraisons destinées aux supermarchés et aux programmes d’alimentation scolaire sont retardées. Les chaînes de production s’arrêtent. Les travailleurs occasionnels reçoivent l’ordre de ne pas se présenter au travail. Pour une entreprise dont les produits dépendent […]

One Handshake, Ten Trucks and A Grain Trade Revolution in East and Southern Africa

Today, trucks rumble out of a bustling warehouse in Nairobi loaded with beans destined for markets across Eastern and Southern Africa. But only a year earlier, Nemuwa Cereal General Store was a mid-sized grain aggregator wrestling with unreliable suppliers, rising transport costs and limited access to regional markets. Now, the company sources grain from Tanzania, […]

The Cost of Trust – A Failed Grain Deal Sparks a New Era of Cross-Border Trade

The deal looked routine. Money was transferred. A rice shipment was expected. Then the supplier disappeared. In a single transaction, Nairobi-based Meysun Trading Limited lost KSh 1.2 million (approx. $9,300) —a devastating blow for a grain trader operating on thin margins. The loss exposed a harsh reality of informal agricultural trade, where business often depended […]

The Secret Ingredient Wasn’t Maize

Reliable, Structured Regional Grain Trade Stabilises Quality and Value Addition at Kenya’s Flour Mill Every time maize supplies run short, production slows at Unibrain Industries Limited in Kenya. Orders to supermarkets and school feeding programmes are delayed. Production lines fall silent. Casual workers are told not to report to work. For a company whose products […]

Why a joint border agreement signed 290 kilometres away could transform the Beira Corridor

Every day, trucks carrying fuel, fertiliser, machinery, grain and manufactured goods leave the Port of Beira bound for Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and beyond. Their journey to inland markets depends not only on the efficiency of one of Southern Africa’s busiest ports, but also on what happens nearly 300 kilometres inland at the Forbes-Machipanda border crossing. […]