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Spotlight | Guinea
Imbroglio between Conakry and cyber-surveillance company puts contract in limbo

Engineer and businessman Éric Léandri, then director of Qwant, at the Tech for Good summit in Paris on 15 May 2019. © Charles Platiau / Reuters

After the junta paid several million euros to French businessman Éric Léandri to equip Guinean special forces with cyber-surveillance equipment, the contract is now at a standstill and a source of tension between the different parties.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

Cameroon
Cotton tender sparks new tensions

The race to supply CNPC-C and Sodecoton for the 2026-2027 cotton season is shaping up to be a close one. Nigeria's Sankofa could challenge the Kenyan supplier ETG, the favourite to win the tender.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

Central African Republic
Between boycott and participation, Central African opposition split over election strategy

Supporters of presidential candidate Anicet-Georges Dologuele in the town of Bossangoa, Central African Republic, 2016. © Siegfried Modola / Reuters

The main opposition groups in the Central African Republic, torn between boycotting and participating in December's presidential election, are struggling to remain united.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Senegal
Paris fights Dakar's corner with IMF

Bassirou Diomaye Faye with Medef President Patrick Martin at the employers' association's annual meeting, in Paris, on 27 August 2025. © Serge Tenani / Hans Lucas via AFP

As a sign of its rapprochement with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the French government has mobilised to get the Bretton Woods institution to grant a waiver to Senegal in its 'hidden debt' affair.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

East Africa
IGAD's finances in the red

Employees of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development have not been paid since the the end of last year. This is because most of the organisation's member states have not paid their annual dues.

Subscribers only Finance

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Pretoria's plan to rescue its ferrochrome industry

In order to protect the ferrochrome industry, the finance and trade and industry ministers want to impose a 25% tax on exports of chromite, an unprocessed mineral.

Subscribers only Mining

South Africa
Mystery surrounds official residence of late ambassador to France

During the summer, several agents and investors had visited the spacious Haussmannian building where the South African ambassador lived. He suddenly died on 30 September.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Madagascar
Andry Rajoelina takes final gamble

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina in Paris, France, on 5 October 2024. © Ludovic Marin/Pool/EPA/MaxPPP

Severely weakened by the ongoing wave of protests, the Malagasy president is preparing to appoint his new PM, and has just settled on his new chief of staff. A highly active figure within African diaspora networks in France, she will be tasked with re-establishing contact with the country's youth that Rajoelina is scheduled to address on 8 October.

Subscribers only Politics

North Africa

Tunisia
Libyan businessman Nouri Abdessamad Salem tries to restart Tunisie Sucre

The shareholder of the group that owns the Bizerte factory, which has been shut down for nearly three years, has obtained the opening of voluntary receivership proceedings for his heavily indebted company.

Subscribers only Business

Morocco
Moncef Belkhayat primed to take over at employers' association

At the head of the logistics company Dislog, Moncef Belkhayat is well placed to succeed the current head of the Moroccan Employers' association (CGEM), Chakib Alj, in 2026.

Subscribers only Business

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