The Libyan government is about to claim more than $60bn of until now unknown assets, which investigators say were secretly invested in United States treasury bonds by the former Qadhafi regime. But, with much of the paper held in smaller American midwestern financial institutions, there will likely be a massive battle to establish title to the bonds, and decide how and to whom they should be returned.
Issue 517 - 02 December 2024
The ruling ‘Duo Diomaye/Sonko’ seems to hold all the cards needed to at least try to implement their ambitious Project Senegal 2050 agenda, after their Pastef party won some 130 of the 165 National Assembly seats in Senegal’s much-anticipated mid-November legislative election, writes Waly Dione Faye.
Issue 517 - 01 December 2024
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