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In Focus | Central African Republic
Between Wagner and Bancroft, Touadéra's tricky security situation

Illustrated by Julien Pacaud, with AFP and Reuters

In the hope of reducing Moscow's influence, Faustin-Archange Touadéra is seeking to renew ties with Western partners. This delicate diplomatic shift has resulted in an agreement with the US private military company Bancroft, the details of which Africa Intelligence can now reveal.

Subscribers only Defence, Mining, Diplomacy

Central Africa

Angola, DRC
DRC takes small steps to claw back offshore oil resources from Angola

The Congolese government is choosing to compromise with Luanda by signing agreements of limited scope rather than going to court to assert its rights to its offshore oil resources.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Niger
Bola Tinubu's leadership of ECOWAS irks West African leaders

Nigerian president Bola Tinubu at the 64th Head of States and Government ordinary session in Abuja, 10 December 2023. © Kola Sulaimon/AFP

Economic Community of West African States chairman Bola Tinubu has failed to normalise relations between the regional organisation and Niger. The Nigerian president is also under fire over an incident at an ECOWAS summit that displeased heads of French-speaking states.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ivory Coast
Abidjan reaches out to South African defence industrialists

Ivory Coast's South African embassy increased its contact with several South African defence companies in December. The motive was an economic forum slated to furnish the army with supplies, planned for mid-January in Korhogo, northern Ivory Coast.

Subscribers only Defence

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Ruto in coastal trouble with allies

Kenyan President William Ruto in Germany, 20 November 2023. © Hannibal Hanschke/EPA/MaxPPP

Kenya's president is determined to carry out his controversial social housing policy in a region where ruling coalition leaders fear it will cost them political capital.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Lebanon's Dar Group wins two major contracts

Despite having no embassy in the country, Lebanon's diaspora is well established in Angola thanks to its long-standing ties with the latter's government.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

North Africa
AU: Algiers and Rabat clash over leading figures

Deeply divided North Africa is once again in danger of being under-represented in forthcoming appointments to key posts in the pan-African institution.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Libya
ENI comes up short as battle between oil minister and NOC ensues

Italian oil major ENI's project to operate gas block NC7 in Hamada may fall through. Originally for three blocks, it began in 2019.

Subscribers only Energy

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