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Spotlight | Morocco, Spain
Madrid and Rabat negotiate resumption of trade in Spanish enclaves

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, during his last visit to Morocco, on 7 April 2022. © Jalal Morchidi/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

During Pedro Sanchez's two-day trip to Rabat, the issue of the land customs posts between Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla is dominating the conversation with his Moroccan counterpart Aziz Akhannouch. But differences of opinion are emerging behind the scenes.

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Central Africa

Congo, DRC
SCET resumes studies for Kinshasa-Brazzaville bridge

The Tunisian engineering firm SCET Tunisie is busy updating the preliminary studies for a road and rail bridge between Kinshasa and Brazzaville that it originally conducted alongside the French company Egis back in 2011.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

West Africa

Nigeria
Nigeria appoints new arbitrator in OPL 245 dispute

Nigeria has appointed a new arbitrator following the resignation of Kamal Hossain in December in the case pitting it against the Italian major ENI before the World Bank's dispute settlement body allowing proceedings to resume.

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Guinea, Nigeria
Olusegun Obasanjo eyes Guinean agricultural market

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo plans to develop in Guinea's agricultural sector with his company Obasanjo Farms Nigeria. He is currently looking at getting into pineapple production and poultry farming.

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West Africa
West Africa ponders choice of next UNOWAS head

The Dakar-based post UN post has been vacant since October and the names of several African diplomats are doing the rounds.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Ruto reins in his top two lieutenants

Kenyan President William Ruto, between Vice President Rigathi Gachagua (left) and Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi (right). © Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

The Kenyan president takes a dim view of the personal politicking of his two main allies, Rigathi Gachagua and Musalia Mudavadi, who are already trying to pave a path to their own success in the 2027 elections.

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East Africa
AU firms up agenda for Addis summit

Topics to be raised at the AU heads of state summit to be held in Addis Ababa from 18-19 February will range from political, financial and energy governance, UN security council reforms, to the AU's response to climate change.

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Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique, Tanzania
Tanzanian army secures border area in Cabo Delgado

A new Tanzanian contingent took up position in the restive Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado in early December in a bid to shore up a struggling military coalition battling jihadist rebels. A Rwandan army unit was meanwhile redeployed further south to try to contain attacks by armed groups.

Subscribers only Defence

Angola
Somoil expands its Angolan portfolio

The oil junior knows people in high places and has been buying shares in various lucrative blocks over the last year. The funds came in part from a 2018 law allowing the repatriation of funds generated abroad during the Dos Santos era.

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North Africa

Libya, Tunisia
Libya Desk consultancy to open Tunisian branch

The consulting firm Libya Desk, founded in 2019, is going to open an office in Tunisia, Tunisia Desk. Libya Desk is specialized in economics and politics and was created by Oliver Crowley and Mohamed Omar Dorda, son of Abu Zaid Dorda, former prime minister and head of intelligence under Muammar Gaddafi.

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Algeria
Michele J. Sison's human rights agenda thwarted in Algiers

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Affairs Michele J. Sison. © Lucas Jackson/Reuters

The senior US diplomat was supposed to meet a leading Algerian human rights organisation during her visit to Algiers but the NGO was dissolved just before the meeting.

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