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Spotlight | DRC
Congo's $619m hot potato: who's to deal with Dig Oil over crippling arbitration award?

The DRC is coming under increasing pressure to comply with a 2018 arbitration award of hundreds of millions of dollars in favour of South African junior Dig Oil over the delayed attribution of Cuvette Central blocks.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Africa
Benedict Oramah retains old guard at Afreximbank

The president of the pan-African bank Afreximbank, Benedict Oramah. © ALEXANDER ASTAFYEV / SPUTNIK / GOVERNMENT PRESS SERVICE POOL / P/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Re-elected president of Afreximbank in mid-June, the Nigerian banker Benedict Oramah has decided to retain the existing board of this pan-African banking institution.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

France, Niger
Alkache Alhada, the new interior minister with socialist credentials

New Nigerien interior minister Alkache Alhada. © State Audit Office of Hungary/YouTube

Alkache Alhada, who has taken over from Mohamed Bazoum at the strategically important Nigerien interior ministry, is on very good terms with President Mahamadou Issoufou. He also has longstanding links with the "Mr Africa" of the French socialist party, Guy Labertit, and the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo.

Subscribers only Politics

Guinea
Total to supply fuel for operations at Simandou blocks formerly owned by Beny Steinmetz

The French major Total has reportedly reached a deal with Société Minière de Boké on storing and supplying the fuel needed for operations at blocks 1 and 2 of the Simandou iron ore project.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining

Niger
Aerodyne, EST Ukraine: mysterious web of contacts behind fake competition scandal

Gintautas Barauskas, the low-profile representative of defence firms Aerodyne and EST Ukraine, is threatening to sue Niger for €2.2m while he himself is accused by the ministry of defence for his role in a fake competition scandal.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Nigeria
Aje: how Yinka Folawiyo secured a massive discount on FPSO lease

The Covid-19 crisis has helped the Nigerian billionaire cut costs by squeezing his contractors to the max.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
Wan Kuok-koi free rides on back of Chinese diplomacy

Wan Kuok-koi, a Chinese businessman with a chequered past in the gambling industry, is starting to make his presence felt in Uganda as a champion of Xi Jinping's One Belt, One Road initiative.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Malawi
Uranium: latest twist in Lotus Resources boardroom battle

John Sibley,l'expérimenté nouveau président du conseil d'administration de Lotus Resources. © Aldebaran Resources

Grant Davey went into Lotus Resources' recent extraordinary general meeting a minority investor and came out a board member. He then promptly brought in two former Uranium One executives to join him in the boardroom of the Australian miner.

Subscribers only Mining

Mozambique
Dentec Aerospace targets warplane repair business

Dentec Aerospace, which is based in Grand Central Airport in the Midrand area of South Africa, has expanded into Mozambique with the aim of taking advantage of the fast-growing market for the repair and maintenance of militarised aircraft.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Angola
Lourenço in two minds over G20 debt moratorium

Unlike Senegal, which will be a beneficiary of the public debt moratorium announced by the G20 in April, Angola might opt not to apply for the suspension of its public debt repayments.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics

North Africa

Morocco
ESL & Network lays groundwork for World Bank, IMF gathering in Marrakesh

The French consulting firm's Moroccan branch is drawing up specs for the two Bretton Woods institutions' annual meeting in Marrakesh at the end of next year.

Free access Business

Morocco
Sotcob, Mohammed VI's favourite designer of African mosques

An example of Sotcob's work: Mohammed VI Mosque in Saint-Etienne (France). © PHOTOPQR/LE PROGRES/MAXPPP

A specialist in traditional Moroccan interiors, Sotcob is taking care of the interior design of the mosque that Morocco has bestowed on Abidjan. The firm has been involved in creating several other Moroccan mosques abroad.

Subscribers only Business

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