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In Focus | DRC
The Tshisekedi clan's dangerous ties with cobalt looting "cartels"

Photomontage - Illustration: Julien Pacaud © Amaury Cornu/Hans Lucas/AFP, Ludovic Marin/AFP, Federico Scoppa/AFP, Patrick Meinhardt/AFP, Kenny Katombe/Reuters

In the ex-Katanga region, illegal copper and cobalt mining has reached a near-industrial level, with revenues estimated at around $2bn per year. Eurasian Resources Group is bearing the brunt of this situation, which is starting to expose the Congolese president.

Subscribers only Mining, Diplomacy

Central Africa

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
Cross-border bridge project makes timid comeback

The project to build a bridge over the Ntem River has resurfaced. Environmental studies are underway, and backers hope to lay the foundation stone in 2026.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

West Africa

Mali
Rebel leader Bilal Ag Acherif's European trip irks Bamako

Considered a 'terrorist' by General Assimi Goïta's junta, the leader of the Tuareg rebellion in the north of the country took a low-profile tour of several European capitals in May.

Free access Politics

Sierra Leone
Freetown countdown to national oil company launch

The public company has already been registered under the name Sierra Leone National Petroleum Co. Headed up by Petroleum Directorate boss Foday Mansaray, it is set to take a 10% cut on each new exploration licence in the country.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Future of UN fact-finding mission on the line

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is counting on a coalition of African and Gulf leaders not to renew the human rights probe that has been in place since civil war broke out in 2023. A vote by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva will determine its fate.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ethiopia
Amhara region blocks return of thousands of Qemant refugees

Ethiopian refugees of the Qemant ethnic group in the village of Basinga in Sudan's eastern Gedaref region, on 10 August 2021. © Ashraf Shazly/AFP

The land of a large number of Qemant community members is being expropriated in the Amhara region due to several infrastructure projects. The minority is drawing attention to the political aspect of the situation.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
TotalEnergies' 2024 exit leaves gas block in the lurch

The French major's departure has put the brakes on the largest gas development project in South Africa. The new operator must now find other partners but the options are few and far between.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Tunisia
Behind the Interpol red notice and Halima Ben Ali's arrest

Halima Ben Ali and her mother Leïla applaud Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's speech in Radès, Tunisia, 7 November 2007. © STR / EPA / MaxPPP

Arrested in Paris in late September, the youngest daughter of former president Ben Ali is the subject of an international arrest warrant. In 2018, she had already been arrested in Italy.

Subscribers only Politics

Morocco
Boss of French energy company Engie walking the high wire in Dakhla

On 9 October, the Engie chairman will meet with the French and Moroccan employers' associations. The goal is to promote the group's activities in disputed Western Sahara, without upsetting Algeria, which supplies Engie with gas.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

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