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In Focus | DRC, Southern Africa, Zambia
Truckers in the Copperbelt forced to re-enact Mad Max at the hands of the Chinese

How copper leaves the Copperbelt © Africa Intelligence / Indigo Publications - 2020

The arrival of Chinese companies at copper-cobalt deposits in the DRC and Zambia has upset traffic on mineral evacuation routes. They are forcing road transporters to contend with extremely low prices, leaving them no choice but to fight the terms of each new contract and redistribute market shares among the African ports.

Subscribers only Mining

The Continent

Africa
African business booms for New York investment bank Jefferies

Traditionally focused on the US and Europe, in recent years the investment bank Jefferies has carved a niche for itself in the African oil sector. It was recently entrusted with the privatisation of Angola's Sonangol.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Mali
For former prime minister Moussa Mara, the presidential campaign has already begun

Former Malian Prime Minister Moussa Mara. © Nicolas Remene/Le Pictorium/MAXPPP

Mali's presidential election isn't due until the first quarter of 2022 but that hasn't stopped Moussa Mara, who served as prime minister under ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, from getting the ball rolling and activating his networks, not just in Bamako, but also in Paris.

Subscribers only Politics

Ivory Coast
Economy a double-edged sword in Ouattara's election campaign

A campaign poster for Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan, 15 October, 2020. © LEGNAN KOULA/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Campaigning for a third term in office, Alassane Ouattara has made great play of the country's economic growth and its respect for the conditions set by the IMF. The economic indicators he is using, however, are still being processed and could turn out less favourable than the Ivorian president imagines.

Subscribers only Politics

Liberia
Liberia battles with former promoter of its ship registration scheme

The Liberia-flagged 'Ever Glory' of Evergreen. © Jerry Lampen/EPA/MAXPPP

Liberia, which has been ordered to compensate a consulting company which used to promote its ship registration programme, is counter-attacking before an American court.

Subscribers only Business

Burkina Faso
Air Burkina bailed out by an excommunicated Mormon and a silviculture entrepreneur

Struggling in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the oldest of Africa's airlines has been given a lifeline by the American firm African Global Development. But none of its directors have any experience in the aviation industry.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
US Navy invests in Uganda's base on the Nile in Jinja

The United States Armed Forces plan to invest an additional $1m on new installations for the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) in the coming months. This time, it is the US Navy's turn to step up.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

United States, Zimbabwe
US sanctions top of the agenda for new Washington ambassador Tadeous Chifamba

Zimbabwe's new ambassador to the United States, Tadeus Chifamba, has so far represented his country to European institutions. © Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States

With the US presidential election just days away, Harare has appointed a new ambassador to Washington, Tadeous Tafirenyika Chifamba. His first priority will be to tackle the thorny issue of getting American sanctions on his country lifted.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Angola
Lourenço deploys dream team to renegotiate Chinese debt

Increasingly indebted, Luanda urgently needs to hammer out a solution with Beijing. In charge of this fraught negotiation is the finance minister Vera Daves de Sousa, backed by a four-strong team of civil servants.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Mozambique
Lionel Dyck's private army struggles in Cabo Delgado despite Panzer Logistics and STTEP reinforcements

President Filipe Nyusi is unhappy with the approach to containing the insurrection in Cabo Delgado proposed by Dyck Advisory Group and its subcontractors, the arms trader Panzer Logistics and the private security firm STTEP International.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

North Africa

Algeria
Rebrab's sons prime Cevital for return to major construction contracts

Eight months after the release of Cevital founder Issad Rebrab, the country's leading private sector employer has massively increased the financial fire power of its construction subsidiaries.

Subscribers only Business

Morocco
New Inwi chief exec retains Nadia Fassi Fehri's management team

Appointed earlier this month as acting CEO of Inwi, which is owned by the royal holding company Al Mada, Azzedine el-Mountassir Billah does not appear to be in any hurry to shake up the telecoms operator.

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