By promising substantial investments in an LNG export project off the coast of Pointe-Noire, Italy's ENI has raised hopes of breathing new life into a moribund industry. The Congolese authorities have placed high stakes on the project.
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The Association congolaise des banques, which assembles all the country's banks is preparing to call on DRC President Félix Tshisekedi regarding the administrative and above all judicial harassment of which its members feel they are victims.
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Finance Cranbury Overseas, a US-Nigerian company active in the agricultural sector, wants to expand its business in Cameroon. Its director, Anthony M. Martin, has written to President Paul Biya to extol the company's investment capacity.
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Business Diplomat Claire Bodonyi will be the next French ambassador to Brazzaville.
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Operating in the shadow of the powerful head of Malian intelligence Modibo Koné, Colonel Dicko is one of the essential cogs in the country's secret service and has several senior allies in the junta.
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Politics After a trip to Abidjan, the head of the French parliament's armed forces committee, Thomas Gassilloud, will travel to Senegal and Niger this month to discuss the reorganisation of French military deployment in West Africa.
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Defence 
Agreeing to overlook a barely missed deadline, the East African Court of Justice has allowed François-Xavier Mironko to appeal its dismissal of his lawsuit against the state of Rwanda over an alleged debt dating back to 1993.
Southeast Asian importers want their Kenyan partners to export more prized timber from Afzelia trees, all species of which are classified as threatened but which can still be traded through the issuing of export permits.
Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Nigeria and Senegal could be among the countries chosen by the Brazilian president for his trip to Africa in the coming months. His diplomatic team that handles African affairs is currently working on the visit.
The government in Tripoli has chosen Khaled Kagigi, a man with a business background, to serve as Libya's ambassador in France. He will have the job of trying to improve the tetchy relations which have prevailed between the two countries in recent years.
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Diplomacy Tunisian cultural affairs minister Hayet Guettat is making great efforts to strengthen her control over her ministry and to make sure she is noticed by the Tunisian president. She hopes to get a ministerial post with a bigger budget allocation in future.
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