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Spotlight | Nigeria
Senate president in secret talks with Tompolo to release tanker of stolen crude

Nigeria's Senate president Godswill Akpabio (centre) takes the oath of office, Abuja, 13 June 2023. © Kola Sulaimon/AFP

Impounded for over a year with its cargo of nearly 900,000 barrels of crude oil, the Harbour Spirit is increasingly becoming a political preoccupation. It has prompted a visit to Delta State by Godswill Akpabio, who is determined to succeed where all other emissaries before him have failed.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Central Africa
Central Africa up in arms over AU panel of eminent Africans

Diplomats from the region have strongly contested the rejection of the 13 candidates for the last two commissioner posts to be filled at the African Union. This has sparked an unprecedented conflict within the pan-African organisation.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Cameroon
Fecafoot president Samuel Eto'o increasingly isolated

Former Cameroonian footballer Samuel Eto'o in Bangkok, Thailand, 17 May 2024. © Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP

In constant conflict with the men's national football team coach Marc Brys and Sport Minister Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, Samuel Eto'o has been disowned by the president's secretary-general Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh and the players.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Ivorian-Lebanese firm S3C to build cocoa bean grinding plant with France's Touton

The Coffee & Cocoa Marketing Company and Touton are discussing the joint construction of a bean grinding plant in Ivory Coast, with a scalable capacity of over 50,000 tonnes.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

Ivory Coast, Senegal
PM Ousmane Sonko mulls trip to Abidjan

The visit may take place in the first fortnight of April, and it would be Sonko's first to Ivory Coast since coming to office.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Eritrea
In the face of Addis Ababa's ambitions, Eritrea looks for Red Sea support

Amid tensions with neighbouring Ethiopia threatening to spiral out of control, Asmara is looking to Riyadh and Cairo to rekindle security cooperation around the Red Sea.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ethiopia
Central bank sounds out foreign investors before opening up sector

The National Bank of Ethiopia has sent out a first draft of its directive on the criteria for access to the Ethiopian banking market. But this long-awaited reform is now being met with some reservations.

Subscribers only Finance

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
PetroSA's bad business of petroleum product trading

The cash-strapped PetroSA owes large debts to traders Gunvor, Addax Energy and the South African company Nako Energy, the latter of which is struggling to pay its own bills to the state-owned company.

Free access Energy, Commodity traders

North Africa

Inner circles | Libya
Kikli, the powerful Tripoli militia chief with a foot in the business world

Libyan rebels in Abu Salim district in Tripoli, August 2011. © Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

The leader of the Ghneiwa militia during the revolution has become a key cog in the government's security apparatus and has also patiently developed an extensive business network in Tripoli. He is now looking to make inroads into the oil sector.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Egypt
Wide-range of business meetings on agenda during Macron's Cairo trip

French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, 2 April 2025. © Thibault Camus/Pool/AFP

A business delegation will be joining the French head of state on his visit to Egypt this coming week. Talks have been set up to cover a number of topics, from health and renewable energy to transport.

Subscribers only Business

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