The British startup, which has plans to build a 10.5 GW solar-plus-wind power plant in Morocco to be connected to the UK grid through the world's largest under-sea cable, appointed the well-connected former chairman of Rolls-Royce to its board of directors last month.
In November, one of the French army's convoys that came to support the Barkhane force by road was attacked by locals. For the past two months, French military planners have been working on scenarios to keep its troops supplied in the Sahel without provoking any new unrest.
Kinshasa is reconsidering its international policy, which to date has focused primarily on Europe and the United States. This will involve new strategic axes, appointment of ambassadors and the reinforcement of ambassadorial roles.
The EU's training mission in CAR has been suspended since the beginning of December, however ways to revive it are currently being examined. Cooperation with the Rwandan army is one route being considered in Paris, but implementing this would be challenging.
French engineering firm Artelia, which already completed an ESIA for Winning Consortium Simandou, owner of blocks 1 and 2 of the Simandou iron ore project, should soon take on new responsibilities.
Under threat of losing its Coca-Cola bottling licence in Madagascar, French group Castel has suffered another setback in West Africa by seeing its lucrative partnership with the African Football Confederation snatched by a competitor ahead of the 33rd African Cup of Nations.
From 2022, with EU funding, Paris will pilot the reinforcement of aerial intelligence capacities for Togo and Ghana. Under consideration are the provision of drones and an observation aircraft to prevent incursions by armed groups.
The president of Senegal Macky Sall will travel to Cairo in mid-January to meet with his counterpart Abdelfattah al-Sisi, with whom he will discuss the upcoming Senegalese presidency of the African Union (AU).
Lekoa Mining Botswana, the Motswana branch of South African Lekoa Technologies was created on 15 December in Gaborone.
Breaking news published on 29/12/21 at 09:50 - After celebrating his 66th birthday in Rwanda, French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy returned to the continent to spend Christmas in Madagascar. Both trips were private, but Sarkozy's tight connections to African rulers certainly came in handy.
Nearly a year after the end of the blockade, the Qatari group has at last been given the green light to invest in Egypt's offshore after a four year hiatus, against the backdrop of the Gulf crisis.
The next Mediterranean Games, to be held in Oran, have already been postponed because of COVID by one year to June 2022, and President Tebboune is pushing to move things forward. The organising committee has already attributed the drug testing bid but there is much left to do.
