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Central Africa
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Spotlight | Ghana
ExxonMobil, Aker Energy and ENI fed up with Accra

Business in Ghana is dismal: production is low and exploration at a standstill. Companies are becoming more vocal about their exasperation with the state and some are even pulling out entirely.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
How many Russians does it take to back up an army?

Officially, there are around 800 Russian officers and troops in the Central African Republic. That doesn't include "civilians" under contract to Russia's defence ministry or operators of the command systems imported from Moscow.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

DRC
Lubumbashi city council persists with controversial toll on copper transports

The bill to introduce a toll for entering Lubumbashi that sparked a public outcry in October has been presented again to transporters, who have decided to fight back.

Subscribers only Mining

Gabon
Ahead of joining Commonwealth, Gabon sends envoy to Paris

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. © Sadak Souici/Le Pictorium/MaxPPP

Breaking news, published on 04/06/21 at 12 p.m. - Gabon's foreign affairs minister met his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian this morning, as part of president Ali Bongo's recent diplomatic drive which includes applying for Commonwealth membership but also forging closer ties with Russia.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Nigeria
Usual suspects and unknowns among winners of NNPC swap deals

The Nigerian state-owned company has published the list of firms who will get crude oil in exchange for petroleum products. As usual, established companies rub shoulders with unknown firms that have close links to the government.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa
Afreximbank in talks to acquire stake in OLAM-backed industrial fund Arise IIP

African Export-Import Bank could soon buy shares in one of three funds dedicated to investments in Africa owned by Indian-Singaporean agrifood business Olam.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Niger
Little by little, Bazoum makes his mark

Since being sworn in as Niger's president on 2 April, Mohamed Bazoum has made several highly symbolic adjustments.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Somalia
PM Roble caught up in Kenyatta and Farmajo's war of the skies

Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble. © FO/TM/Reuters

The Kenyan leader would rather deal with Somalia's prime minister than its president. He is now threatening to completely close Kenya's airspace to flights from the neighbouring country, even those on humanitarian missions.

Subscribers only Politics

Tanzania
Suluhu Hassan hand picks official to kick start GNL talks with Shell and Equinor

The new president has made developing the gas sector, largely ignored by her predecessor John Magufuli, a priority of her five-year term in office.

Subscribers only Energy

Horn of Africa
World Bank considers billion-dollar investment in electricity infrastructure for Horn

The five Horn of Africa countries - Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Sudan - could be in line for financing to the tune of $1.035bn from the World Bank.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Southern Africa
Libertarians eye Africa to build 'free private cities'

Libertarian financiers who want to build cities run by private companies are increasingly interested in Africa, where they hope to seduce national governments with their utopian projects.

Subscribers only Business

Angola
Image-conscious Lourenço trumpets his anticorruption credentials

The Angolan President João Lourenço. © Clemens Bilan/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

To counter his reputation of being soft on graft, a year ahead of the next election the president and his PR team have mounted a major media campaign, including a flashy TV documentary, around several high-profile sackings.

Subscribers only Politics

Mozambique
Govt pulls out of Henan Guoji's vast real estate project

At the end of May, Chinese construction firm Henan Guoji bought up all the stock in the Intaka real estate project, in which Fundo para o Fomento de Habitaçao (FFH), a parastatal fund had until then been a partner.

Subscribers only Business

Zambia
Lusaka lays out plan to reach one million tonnes of copper by 2024

When questioned recently in parliament as to why Zambia is failing to reach output of one million tonnes of copper each year, the country's Minister of Mines Richard Musukwa assured it would be achieved by 2024.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

In Focus | Morocco
From Western Sahara to broadcasting, royal adviser El Himma in sole charge at the Palace

Fouad Ali El Himma, during the reception offered to King Mohammed VI by Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, October 19, 2016. © Story & Brands

Mohammed VI's political adviser Fouad Ali El Himma beat the king's foreign affairs advisers to the punch when he initiated the confrontational approach currently being taken by Morocco on Western Sahara. He is also set to outflank his great rival, the king's private secretary Mounir El Majidi, on reforming the TV broadcasting sector.

Subscribers only Politics

Libya
In Paris, Abdelhamid Dabaiba talks hospitals, debt and reconstruction

Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba (right) and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on June 1, 2021. © Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP

The Libyan prime minister has asked the French group Denos to once again take over the running of the Benghazi Medical Center, but an old debt has complicated the plan. Airbus, Bolloré and Idemia are meanwhile trying to revive the contracts promised by previous Libyan governments.

Subscribers only Business

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