West Africa’s increasing regional coherence and infrastructure investment are helping drive growth in the region’s freight and logistics market, according to South Africa (SA) Former Statistician-General Dr Pali Lehohla.

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plus a group of external, non-OPEC oil-producing nations (OPEC+) is set to keep its oil output policy ‌unchanged for October at a meeting on Sunday, two people familiar with the discussions told Reuters, as the producer group needs to agree ​new quotas before deciding its next output steps.

Armed conflicts cause greater and longer-lasting economic damage than banking crises, currency crashes, sovereign debt defaults or major natural disasters, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) study.