The Chadian Ministry of Hydrocarbons is still trying to make ExxonMobil pay a hefty leaving fee, and has produced a highly critical report of the running of the wells that the US major sold to Savannah Energy in December.
The legal tussle between the Congo state and the Lebanese firm Commisimpex over Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso's seized Falcon 7X continues after a French court on 29 March rejected an appeal from Congo to suspend the aircraft's sale.
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Business Two weeks after the mysterious killing of nine Chinese miners in central CAR, a special Hainan Airlines flight called at Bangui-M'Poko International Airport to repatriate 80 Chinese nationals.
The junta, which is in financial difficulty, particularly because of the cost of its battle with the armed groups rife in northern and eastern Burkina Faso, is doing all it can to get its hands on the cash generated by the mines.
The UN mission in Mali has been hampered politically and operationally by the ruling junta. The UN secretary-general is now drawing up a list of conditions the junta must meet if the mission is to stay on in the country.
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Diplomacy 
The Kenyan executive is to submit a bill to the National Assembly which, if passed, would allow it to launch the privatisation of state firms without having to obtain parliamentary approval. The measure, which was not in President Ruto's election manifesto, is causing concern even within the coalition government.
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Politics The social media behemoth, which farmed out the moderation of East African Facebook posts to subcontractors based in Nairobi, has failed to extract itself from legal proceedings brought against two of its subcontractors.
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New electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramogkopa's speeches have angered the main union leaders at the troubled state-owned power utility. The heads of NUM and Solidarity hold that corruption is at the crux of the woes of Eskom and its employees.
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Energy 
Toufik Hakkar, head of Algerian oil and gas company Sonatrach was prevented from making a trip to the United States by the presidency. His efforts to get the army chief of staff to help him keep his job displeased Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
The EU and UN are considering sending the armoured vehicles seized last October on the Dutch cargo ship MV Meerdijk by the EU's Irini sea patrol to Ghana to reinforce the country's armed forces.
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Defence 
