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The New Guard
Burkina Faso, Morocco, Angola, Ethiopia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Burkina FasoJoseph Zagré, housing the middle class

MoroccoAhmed "Spins", the other Akhannouch junior

AngolaVera Daves de Sousa, Lourenço's financial ace

EthiopiaBethleem Tilahun Alemu, the entrepreneur keen to rival Nike

Chad
Déby asks Switzerland to help trigger rebel disarmament programme

Chad junta leader Mahamat Idriss Déby is banking on Bern to help convince donors to finance his country's disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme aimed at bringing former rebels back into the fold.

Cameroon
Samuel Eto'o tackles new proceedings at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

A former member of FECAFOOT's executive committee, Guibai Gatama, believes that Samuel Eto'o's sentencing in Spain to 22 months in prison for tax fraud means that he is no longer entitled to hold the role of president.

Ivory Coast
PM Achi puts plan for difficult districts' urban renewal on back burner

Ivorian prime minister Patrick Achi has postponed the plan to clean up Abidjan's 'challenging' neighbourhoods. Several of the suggestions required expropriation, which was deemed complicated, and too delicate to undertake shortly before the local elections.

West Africa
Gide, Mazars and Titane compete for fibre optics feasibility study

French firms Gide Loyrette Nouel, Mazars and Titane are currently bidding for a feasibility study contract for an extension of Mauritania's backbone, a major project aiming to equip the country with fibre optics.

Sudan
Hemeti sends envoy to tell Europe how RSF protects civilians

Youssef Ezzat, a political adviser to the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, is to visit Berlin and London after a trip to Paris to try to convince these major Western powers that his camp is going all out to protect Sudanese civilians.

Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa
China's foreign minister expected in Kenya

One of the aims of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang's trip to Africa is to clear up issues relating to the debt of several of the continent's states, including Kenya.

Madagascar
Government to give Rio Tinto's QMM more time to negotiate a new tax and customs convention

Mines minister Olivier Rakotomalala has asked for the deadline for negotiating a tax and customs conventions with Rio Tinto subsidiary Qit Madagascar Minerals to be put back to 30 June.

Egypt
East Med Gas Forum chief to discuss Egypt-EU-Israel gas supply project during Brussels visit

East Med Gas Forum secretary general Osama Mobarez is due to meet the European Commission's energy directorate in Brussels next week. High on the meeting agenda will be a plan to export Israel gas to the European Union via Egypt.

Morocco
Why Moroccan phone operators are not rushing to launch 5G

Promised for 2022, 5G is not yet offered by any of the country's three major telephone operators, Maroc Télécom, Orange and Inwi. We look at the reasons behind this.