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Algeria
Cevital group pressured to buy risky rapeseed crops

The agri-food group recently acquired the entire Algerian rapeseed output. However, it's a deal that looks more like a burden, as Cevital is still facing administrative obstacles to get its plant in Béjaia up and running. [...]

Published on 25/07/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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The state gives Cevital a monopoly over rapeseed production in 2023

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Cevital's crushing plant in Béjaïa placed under lock and key

The Algerian authorities on 15 August sealed shut the oilseed crushing plant built by the Cevital group in Béjaïa, and whose launch was initially planned for the end of 2022. They did so on the grounds that the project had not received all the required authorisations.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Algeria
Cevital group pressured to buy risky rapeseed crops

Algeria
Two Cevital execs released from prison

Algeria
Food shortages bad for Cevital's business

Algeria
Malik Rebrab turns page on his father's era at Cevital

Algeria
Cevital to resume sugar exports to Europe

Algeria
Cevital will not launch crushing plant before end of 2023

Algeria
Cevital's planned crushing plant in Bejaia stumbles due to drought

Algeria
The state gives Cevital a monopoly over rapeseed production in 2023

Algeria
Cevital's crushing plant in Béjaïa placed under lock and key

Algeria
Cevital defies global plastics market woes to launch Africa's largest plant

Algeria
Cevital working to unblock its sugar exports

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Rebrab's oil seed treatment plant almost finished but may not open

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