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