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Spotlight | Israel
New Israeli government revives African diplomacy with Covid vaccines

Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid and prime minister Naftali Bennett. © Ronen Zvulun/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The foreign minister's announcement of the donation of a million Covid-19 vaccines to Africa was intended to show that Israel is reviving its cooperation with the continent.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

The Continent

Africa
Avanzar leads the field in human rights due diligence in mining

Apart from their already wide-ranging responsibility and sustainability concerns, mining groups are now facing increasing pressure to ensure they comply with human rights standards in their operations. Consulting firm Avanzar is already a key partner of the major groups present on the African continent in this area.

Subscribers only Mining

Central Africa

Cameroon
Camair-Co under pressure for AFCON

Indebted and under-equipped, the Cameroonian national airline is being forced to find alternative means of transport to take guests and national delegations to the African Cup of Nations host cities.

Subscribers only Business

DRC
Fortescue gets busy to win Tshisekedi's Grand Inga blessing

DRC president Félix Tshisekedi. © Alessandro Serrano'/Avalon/Photoshot/MaxPPP

Having embarked on a vast project to produce hydrogen, the Australian miner is doing all it can to become the only credible candidate to build the series of mega-dams.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

West Africa

Guinea, Mali
Ouattara and Embalo face off over extension to ECOWAS mandate in Guinea and Mali

Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara and Guinea-Bissau president Umaro Sissoco Embalo. © Legnan Koula/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP - Thomas Padilla/MaxPPP

The Ivorian president had to confront his Guinea-Bissau counterpart Umaro Sissoco Embalo to extend the current mandate of the ECOWAS commission over post-coup Guinea and Mali by several months. It was a tense showdown during which Macky Sall tried to mediate.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Nigeria
Buhari and Erdogan cosy up to revive Dicon military conglomerate

The development of the Nigerian public defence conglomerate could be at the heart of the security cooperation policy outlined by Muhammadu Buhari and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
IOG continues to court Monaco's private sector

A joint delegation from the Monaco Economic Board (MEB) and the business association Club des entrepreneurs monégasques en Afrique (CEMA) is expected to visit Djibouti by the end of the year.

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Eritrea
Former diplomatic superstar Haile Menkerios sets up consultancy in Mauritius

The former Under-Secretary General and Permanent Representative of the United Nations (UN) to the African Union (AU), Haile Menkerios of Eritrea, was appointed director of the Mauritian company PDI Horizon Agency in early December.

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Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
World Bank wraps up corruption investigation into Ivato airport

The first few months of the new terminal at Ivato, built and managed by a consortium of Aéroports de Paris, the Meridiam fund and the Bouygues and Colas construction groups, are expected to be disrupted by the findings of an investigation by the World Bank's anti-corruption unit, a branch of which was involved in financing the project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Angola
Angola banks on TotalEnergies and ENI to avoid falling below 1m bpd mark

The government is pampering the operators still active in the country in a bid to avoid a rapid decline in production.

Subscribers only Energy

Namibia
Rössing Uranium plans for more durable solution for storing radioactive waste from its mine

Last month, Namibia's environment ministry received a radioactive waste management plan from Rössing Uranium, the country's largest uranium mine, operated and majority-owned (69%) by the state-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC).

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
With €280m at stake, Siba Plast case gets complicated for LIA

This month, the Libyan sovereign wealth fund will attempt to have the seizures initiated by Siba Plast in Paris invalidated. The little-known Tunisian company is claiming €280m for a contract to restructure the judicial police, which was never executed.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

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