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Spotlight | Kenya
Julius Mwale's medical castle in the air stretches from California to Butere

US-Kenyan businessman Julius Mwale. © iStock//Mwale Medical and Technology City/Facebook @Indigo Publications - 2025

He presented himself as a genius inventor, a self-made man and a philanthropic investor. Storm clouds have however been gathering over Mwale, the US-Kenyan businessman who vowed to revolutionise healthcare in Africa but whose pharaonic scheme has swallowed up tens of millions of dollars with few tangible results.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Central Africa

Central African Republic
IMF sends last-ditch mission to Bangui

A team from the International Monetary Fund is due in the Central African Republic on 9 January to try to reestablish dialogue. Relations between the financial institution and Bangui have been strained for many months due to a failure to reform the country's fuel prices.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy

Gabon
French judge to examine Bongos' prison conditions

Lawyers for deposed president Ali Bongo, his wife and their son are expected to announce on 9 January the appointment of an investigating magistrate in connection with their complaint of ‘arbitrary detention’ and ‘sequestration’.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Guinea
Mamadi Doumbouya speeds up former PM's prosecution

Guinea President Mamadi Doumbouya at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Beijing, China, 5 September 2024. © Li He/Xinhua/Newscom/MaxPPP

Guinea's courts have gone back on their initial decision to allow Ibrahima Kassory Fofana to seek medical treatment abroad. This turnaround comes as General Doumbouya has ordered that the former prime minster be brought to trial for misappropriation of public funds before 15 January.

Subscribers only Politics

Ivory Coast
Events giant GL Events sets ups in Abidjan

Alassane Ouattara has chosen the French multinational GL Events to operate the giant exhibition centre near Abidjan airport. The company will link up with the Ivorian conglomerate PFO Africa.

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Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Senior foreign ministry official under suspicion of gold trafficking

Since the arrest of a man with a diplomatic bag containing 53kg of gold ingots, there has been no sign of Julien Fanambinana Soananata.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Libya
Fresh lawsuit to target National Oil Corp boss over his Emirati passport

The chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation, Farhat Omar Bengdara, at a news conference in Tripoli, Libya, 14 July 2022. © Hazem Ahmed/REUTERS

A new legal case is likely to be made involving Farhat Omar Bengdara, on top of two previous suits. This one is based on the ruling of the Tripoli Court of Appeal, which determined in October that the head of the NOC held Emirati nationality.

Subscribers only Energy

Morocco
New boss shakes up Morocco's ailing power and water utility

Tarik Hamane, who was put in charge of the Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable in June, has since dispensed with several of the state entity's top executives.

Subscribers only Energy

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