Emirati Port operator DP World is ready to open up its capital to finance growth in Africa and elsewhere.
The DRC's president is actively demonstrating his support of digitalising the nation's administration to reduce fraud and waste. He also hopes to appease his financial partners.
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Diplomacy An investigation was launched last year into allegations of corruption at the observatory, which has admitted it failed to monitor the Nyiragongo volcano since last October, but was dropped at the request of the observatory itself.
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Politics The disappearance of items seized as part of the Operation Scorpion anti-corruption investigation is continuing to make waves within the Gabonese security forces and gendarmerie. Several vehicles confiscated from Ali Bongo's chief of staff Brice Laccruche Alihanga have now gone missing.
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Politics The president's office has appointed new officials to oversee the thorny issue of arbitration with the South African junior.
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Energy Franck Mathière, the vice-president of the group building stadiums for the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, returned to the country in April after obtaining a suspension of the Interpol Red Notice against him. The Frenchman was detained in Ukraine after Nigeria issued the warrant.
This week, it is the turn of trade minister Hugues Mbadinga Madiya and his investment promotion colleague Carmen Ndaot, who are visiting St Petersburg and Moscow.
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After presenting the findings of a two-year study of the country's mining resources in Freetown, the Sierra Leone government now wants to tout this potential to the world's investors.
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Mining At the same time as invoking sovereign immunity from prosecution in the United States, Nigeria is taking legal action there in the P&ID affair. The gas company reckons this double game undermines Abuja's standing.
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Energy Numerous Israeli arms company reps are taking part in the International Maritime Defense Exhibition and Conference (IMDEC) in Accra from 6 to 8 July.
The Somali president did not directly participate in the negotiations that led to the deal that is supposed to end the country's electoral impasse. He did score a minor victory on one of his claims.
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Politics Uhuru Kenyatta wants to ensure Justin Muturi, the speaker of the National Assembly, becomes second in command of the next government whatever the outcome of next year's elections. But the influential Kikuyu Council of Elders is not fully on board.
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Through his henchmen, Mohammed VI's political adviser Fouad Ali El Himma has taken charge of the takeover of the 2M and Medi 1 TV channels by public sector broadcasting group SNRT. And he has managed to put one of his supporters in charge of public relations at the interior ministry.
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Business Despite the urgency of the project, a plan by energy transition minister Chems Eddine Chitour to get more cars using liquid petroleum gas is still in the slow lane.
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