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Spotlight | Kenya
Scorned by Ruto, major media houses brace for a grim 2023

Workers arrange copies of the Business Daily newspaper produced by the Nation Media Group at a printing press plant on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi, 24 November 2015. © Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Amid plummeting ad revenue and a grave economic crisis, three of the biggest names in Kenyan news are cutting staff and slashing budgets. For their owners, now in the ranks of the opposition, business as usual is no longer an option.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

The Continent

Africa
Ivory Coast, Gabon, Namibia, Tunisia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

DRC
Port of Banana: Kinshasa finalises expropriation phase

The operation to expropriate land at the site of DP World's upcoming Banana port is due to be completed on 11 December. Among those resisting is Zoé Kabila, former president Joseph Kabila's brother.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

France, Gabon
Elysee gets going on One Forest Summit in Libreville

Emmanuel Macron's adviser Josué Serres recently travelled to Libreville to meet Gabon's environment minister Lee White to discuss the organisation of the One Planet Summit on preserving Central Africa's forests, planned for March or April in Gabon.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Guinea
In exile in Turkey, Alpha Conde keeps a hand in politics

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets former president of Guinea Alpha Conde at the Vahdettin Mansion in Istanbul, Turkey on 14 August 2021. © Turkish Presidency/Murat Cetinm/Anadolu Agency via AFP

The former president of Guinea, who has been living in Istanbul since September, still keeps in close touch with several African heads of state. On top of his traditional allies on the continent, he has also renewed contact with his former adversary Umaro Sissoco Embalo, from Guinea-Bissau.

Subscribers only Politics

Mali
Barrick Gold reassured about its future in Mali after audit

As the Malian gold sector undergoes an audit ordered by the ruling junta, the Canadian giant Barrick Gold, the country's leading gold producer, said it was reassured by the initial exchanges its teams had had with the audit firm Mazars.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
British Foreign Secretary to visit Addis Ababa

The British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in London, 22 November 2022. © Toby Melville/Reuters

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is continuing to make the most of the signing of a ceasefire between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray rebels to rekindle relations with the country's Western partners.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Burundi, South Sudan, Uganda
Interpol beefs up surveillance in East Africa

Interpol is seeking contractors to upgrade and expand its border surveillance systems in three East African countries: Burundi, South Sudan and Uganda.

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Southern Africa and islands

Namibia
Wilhelm Shali hopes for green light for Ongombo copper mine

The Shali Group recently applied for a mining licence for its copper mining project in Ongombo on the outskirts of Windhoek. This marks the beginning of a new phase for Namibian businessman Wilhelm Shali.

Subscribers only Mining

South Africa
Inanda Club, the discreet meeting place of Joburg elite

Finance folk and politicians are among the 1,200 members of the exclusive Inanda Club on the edge of the Sandton business district. They flock there to network and socialise in complete discretion.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics, Business

North Africa

Egypt
France puts two of its cultural institutions' savoir faire at Sisi's service

The Pompidou Centre and the Paris Philharmonic are providing technical support to two upcoming museums in Egypt's New Administrative Capital. Paris is relying on its cultural expertise as a soft power tool in its "strategic partnership" with Cairo.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Morocco
Suez-Lydec: Mohcine Jazouli and Sabrina Soussan hold covert meeting

Sabrina Soussan and Mohcine Jazouli. © John MacDougall/AFP/Story&Brands via MAP

On 1 December, Mohcine Jazouli, Morocco's minister delegate in charge of investments, received Suez's CEO Sabrina Soussan in Casablanca to try to make progress on the delicate topic of Lydec's transfer.

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