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In Focus | Angola
General Electric and Aenergy trade blows in turbine war

With accusations over the use of false documents and dual identities, the power struggle between Portugal's Ricardo Leitão Machado and his former General Electric partner Wilson Dacosta has taken on epic proportions.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

West Africa

Nigeria
ADM Energy keeps losing Emirati allies

Facing the double whammy of the global health crisis and a run-in with a distant cousin of the emir of Dubai, Nigerian junior ADM Energy has been deserted by yet another UAE supporter.

Subscribers only Energy

Gambia
Banjul awaits outcome of its challenge to adverse Carnegie Minerals ruling

Gambia has been trying since 2015 to get an adverse ruling in its dispute against the Australian firm Carnegie Minerals thrown out on procedural grounds. It should learn whether it has succeeded in the coming days.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
Ouattara orders internal probe of deadly Kafolo attack

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara attends a national tribute ceremony for dead soldiers, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, July 2, 2020. © THIERRY GOUEGNON/Reuters

After the 11 June attack that killed 14 Ivorian soldiers, President Alassane Ouattara wishes to shed light on possible dysfunctions within the military.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Nigeria
Nigeria's Pelfaco woos Mercuria over Saunda

Nigerian national Gesi Asamaowei, head of Pelfaco, the company that operates the Congolese offshore block Saunda Marine, hopes to ditch this asset before the year is out.

Subscribers only Energy

Southern Africa and islands

Inner circles | Botswana
The "dynamic duo" behind John Teeling's mining and energy investments

Tycoon John Teeling. © Irish International Business Network/YouTube

Business magnate John Teeling's companies have been involved in a number of ventures in countries with challenging political environments, most of them in Africa. James Finn and David Horgan have played a discreet but key role in these high-risk ventures.

Subscribers only Mining

Gabon, Mauritius
Bongo aides talk turkey with Trafigura after Augusta ouster

The office of Gabon's president is negotiating with Trafigura to take over the off-take agreement between Augusta and the national refinery company.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Madagascar
Air Madagascar has stopped paying Meridiam

An Air Madagascar Airbus A340-300. © Air Madagascar

Tensions between Madagascar's government and the consortium running the country's two main airports have been heightened by tax arrears going back for up to eight months.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Seychelles
Mahé expands its share of superyachts market

Azzam, the largest private yacht in the world, owned by the Emir of Abu Dhabi. © JAUME SELLART/EPA/MaxPPP

By opening up its ports to superyachts on 1 June, the Seychelles is trying to consolidate the growing popularity of its marinas with the ultra rich.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Libya
Washington keen to keep control of UNSMIL

The United States is working behind the scenes to set up a dual leadership of the UN's mission in Libya and, as one of many players in a complex game of three-dimensional chess, to maintain US national Stephanie Williams in place.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Tunisia
Waste disposal becomes political battlefield

Prime Minister of Tunisia Elyes Fakhfakh. © Adele Ezzine / Xinhua / Latin America News Agency

Allegations that Elyès Fakhfakh was guilty of concealing a conflict of interest in the award of major waste tip management contracts have come at just the right time for the Ennahda party...as well as for the Ben Ayed brothers, who have close links with the Islamist party and whose Al Badr group is also in waste management.

Subscribers only Business

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