The main contenders in next year's presidential race, William Ruto and Raila Odinga, have launched an all-out charm offensive to find the best partner to rally reticent communities to their side.
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Politics 
Gabon's oil and gas sector - the state's main source of foreign cash - is now in the hands of a close acquaintance of President Ali Bongo's son and coordinator, Noureddin Bongo.
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Energy The Canadian mining firm and CAR have quietly begun talks to settle a dispute over the mine to avert costly arbitration. Moscow's shadow looms over the thorny case.
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Mining Energy minister Serge Blaise Zoniaba last month granted a ten-year export licence to the Centrale Electrique du Congo (CEC), a gas-fired power plant.
A French court is to hold a hearing on 10 June to decide on how Denis Sassou Nguesso's seized presidential plane should be sold.
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Diplomacy 
The great and the good of Ivory Coast and beyond are showing a keen interest in how Yolande Tanoh-Bakayoko is consolidating her late husband's nebulous Ivorian and European investments.
Guinean construction and mining company Guiter has renewed its granite and laterite mining permits with a view to using its production to complete the major road contract it won from the government in Conakry in 2014 but which has still to come into service.
The Nigerian oil junior Lekoil is caught in the crossfire as the company founder clashes with its South African shareholder Metallon.
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Energy Director of the Africa department of the international relations and strategy department of the French Ministry of Armed Forces, DGRIS, since 2019, Colonel Bruno Pithois is about to step down.
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Diplomacy To meet the Ghana Navy's growing maritime surveillance needs, the US Coast Guard is giving Accra two 12-metre Defender-class speedboats designed by the US manufacturer Safe Boats
The Africa branch of the French employers' association may be getting a new head of East Africa on top of the confirmed change of director.
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Business 
The Zimbabwean politician has emerged from the fisticuffs and death threats of the Pan-African Parliament's latest session as a breath of fresh air for her country's ruling party's image. And by joining forces with South African firebrand Julius Malema, she has suddenly gained popularity across the entire continent.
The world's biggest private water provider is keen for its Casablanca subsidiary Lydec to extend its municipal contract until 2027. It has given ex-SNCF boss Guillaume Pepy the job of ironing out disputes with the city council and the interior ministry.
Turkish public works firm Cengiz managed to scupper the Libyan state's legal attempt to annul a €50m fine related to contracts made in 2008 and 2009 but the Tripoli government still has room for further appeal.
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