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Spotlight | Madagascar, Mauritius
List of companies that will accompany Macron on Indian Ocean tour revealed

Andry Rajoelina (left) and Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, 26 July 2024. © Xose Bouzas/Hans Lucas via AFP

Around 20 business leaders will accompany the French president on his trip this month to Madagascar and Mauritius. The names may still change in the fortnight before his departure, but here we reveal some of the participants.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business, Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
The discreet activism of Nande leaders in Kampala

The M23's territorial expansion in North Kivu is causing a stir among the Nande community, who are looking to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's government for support.

Subscribers only Politics

Central African Republic
Sani Yalo, number one financial backer for Touadéra's re-election campaign

As Faustin-Archange Touadéra prepares for the end of year vote, his party activists have raised €300,000 in support of his candidacy. Minister of State Yalo donated almost a quarter of that sum.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Ghana, West Africa
New pair of generals at Accra Initiative helm

A duo of Ghanaian generals recently took charge of the West African regional security organisation and have been tasked with revitalising it under the aegis of President Mahama.

Subscribers only Defence

Senegal
From Sall to Faye, French construction giant Eiffage consolidates position in Dakar

At Diamniadio station, the Senegalese Regional Express Train from Dakar, 11 January 2022. © Seyllou/AFP

While construction and public works company Eiffage is still at loggerheads with the Senegalese government over the regional express train project, it has managed to make progress on other projects through constructive dialogue with the country's highest authorities.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Army chief torn between supporting his men and Ruto while remaining apolitical

William Ruto at a ceremony in memory of military officers killed in a helicopter crash in Nairobi, 20 April 2024. © Luis Tato/AFP

The defence forces chief is discreetly championing the special status of the organisation responsible for supplying the army, which is being restructured. Yet he also has to tread carefully, as he has been accused of political interference due to his recent public support for the president.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Kenya, Sudan
Kenyan tea squeezes into Sudan despite import ban

The diplomatic wrangling between the two states rumbles on, after Sudan's embassy responded to remarks by William Ruto. The Kenyan president had insisted his country was still exporting tea to Sudan, despite a recently imposed embargo.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Parks Tau makes bad bet in handling of National Lottery call for tenders

People playing the National Lottery at a supermarket in the South African town of Marikana in April 2014. © Marco Longari/AFP

The trade minister has postponed by one year the award of the country's eight-year gaming licence monopoly. This decision is being contested because it favours the current operator, Ithuba Holdings.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Algeria
CMA CGM boss Rodolphe Saadé due in Algiers

The head of the French shipping giant will be taking part in high-level meetings with the Algerian authorities.

Subscribers only Business

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