Katarina Hoije

Senegal’s National Assembly will assess any solutions for the country’s debt challenges, including a possible restructure of billions of dollars in loans, on whether they advance a broader economic-transformation agenda, Speaker Ousmane Sonko said.

Equatorial Guinea has ordered a review of more than 50 state companies and agencies, broadening a government crackdown on waste after the cabinet resigned after failing to meet performance targets.

Senegal is open to discussing a debt restructuring as mounting payment pressures threaten to strain key sectors of the economy, according to a senior member of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s cabinet.

Mali has been hit by several attacks targeting military positions in major towns, including Gao and Sévaré, the army said.

The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development plans to double its balance sheet over the next five years to help bridge an infrastructure funding gap of as much as $36 billion in the 12-nation West African economic bloc.

Unfinished railway is emblematic of the country’s fiscal strains.

The saga has become a source of political tension between its two top leaders.

Les grands projets d’infrastructure devaient incarner la transformation du Sénégal en l’une des économies les plus dynamiques d’Afrique de l’Ouest.

Mali and Algeria agreed to reopen their airspace to civilian and military aircraft and return ambassadors to their posts, signaling an easing of yearlong tensions between the northern African nations.

Dakar’s gleaming commuter train was supposed to showcase Senegal’s economic transformation: a modern railway linking the capital to a new international airport and beyond, the centerpiece of a state-led building boom. Instead, the Regional Express Train has become an emblem of the fiscal strain weighing on a West African economy…