The successor to the departing Chinese ambassador will have a number of major projects to finalise with the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni but he will doubtless benefit from the warm relations that Zheng Zhuqiang has cultivated in Kampala.
In the end, North Africa will present eight candidates for the seat of African Union commissioner for education, including four from Morocco and two from Algeria.
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The group assigned to come up with ways to leverage Gabon's gas resources met for the first time in Libreville in late March. Here are the private firms who attended the meeting.
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Energy Breaking news published on 09/03/21, 1:40 p.m - Nearly two months after the appointment of Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge, Tshisekedi is on the verge of announcing his future government. Ministries have been shared out between the parties of the Union Sacrée, according to their political weight and influence.
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Politics Dig Oil has asked a US court for a ruling in default to confirm the International Chamber of Commerce's (ICC) 2018 order for the DR Congo to pay the firm more than $600m for withdrawing an oil block from it and delaying production contracts on others.
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Tasked with boosting French business on the African continent, the trade minister Franck Riester will be visiting Abuja and Lagos from 12 to 14 April and meeting with Vice President Osinbajo.
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Diplomacy Patrick Achi's new cabinet sees the return of some of the old guard close to the former PM who felt sidelined after his death in July.
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Politics Ivory Coast's mining ministry has been subsumed into a much larger ministry that spans mines, oil, and energy.
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After taking control of companies funded by Islamist parties close to the fallen regime of Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese government has now got hold of 431 firms managed by the army.
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Business L'American-Ethiopia Public Affairs Committee est venu s'ajouter à la liste déjà longue des associations et groupements d'intérêts éthiopiens basés aux Etats-Unis.
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Although 2020 was a rough year for the diamond sector as a whole on account of the pandemic, certain producers fared better than others by focusing their efforts on smaller deposits that nevertheless contained larger diamonds.
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Rached Ghannouchi, who was elected president of the Tunisian parliament in November 2019, has positioned his pawns in various institutions and surrounded himself with a small circle of advisors.
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Politics The European Union has announced its intention to re-open its delegation in Tripoli. But the form that this takes depends on Turkey and Russia's response to the American and European insistence that foreign troops leave Libyan territory.
In founding a renewable energies company, Jonathan Taylor and James Berwick are remaining within their domain of expertise while at the same time trying to move out of oil and gas. This has caught the attention of the Tunisian PM thanks to the connections of their advisor Mehdi Ben Abdallah.
