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Spotlight | DRC
Fortescue in Kinshasa to stake its claim to Grand Inga as rivals circle

The prime minister of the DRC, Sama Lukonde Kyenge, received a delegation from Fortescue led by Julie Shuttleworth, CEO of Fortescue Future Industries, in Kinshasa on 30 May 2022. © DRC Prime Minister's Office

As a rival project takes shape in Paris, the Australian miner Fortescue is going all out to secure the lead role in the development of mega-dams on the River Congo.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Business

Central Africa

Cameroon
Perenco poised to take over New Age's 'cursed' Etinde block

On standby for several years, the development of the Etinde permit, in which Perenco wishes to acquire New Age's 37.5% stake, could finally result in gas being delivered to the Cameroonian coast or Equatorial Guinea's liquefaction plant.

Subscribers only Energy

DRC
Arise prepares ground for DRC debut

In negotiations with Kinshasa to set up in the DRC, the investment fund Arise is deliberating over the location and size of its two industrial and logistics platforms, one dedicated to wood processing and the other to agribusiness.

Free access Finance, Business

West Africa

Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Would-be producing states hope to emulate Namibia's oil and gas success

Three small non-producing oil states in the Gulf of Guinea are desperately - but so far vainly - trying to develop their offshore blocks. Even amid dwindling investment in exploration, they dream of an oil and gas future like Namibia's.

Subscribers only Energy

Africa, France
Lobbyists battle hard in French overseas constituencies

As French citizens abroad prepare to vote in the second round of the French parliamentary elections, a number of lobbyists and PR execs with good connections within Africa's presidential palaces are working hard alongside the remaining candidates.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Senegal
Ex-speaker of parliament Pape Diop campaigns in Paris

Pape Diop, the former mayor of Dakar from 2002 to 2009 and president of the Senegalese National Assembly under then President Abdoulaye Wade, has been in Paris since the beginning of June.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Abiy appoints Redwan Hussein as national security adviser

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Redwan Hussein has been appointed National Security Advisor. © Reuters

In appointing two new members to his private office, the Ethiopian prime minister has reshuffled the personnel at the infrastructure ministry. He has also appointed a new auditor general, a key post that had been vacant since 2021.

Subscribers only Politics

Tanzania
Tanzanite miners and traders protest at being fenced in

A tanzanite mine in Mirerani, northern Tanzania. © Yannick Tylle/Picture Alliance/MaxPPP

Producers and traders of the gemstone that is only found in a small pocket of Tanzanian soil are increasingly irate about year-old rule changes that curtail their activities.

Subscribers only Mining

Tanzania
Call for parliamentary inquiry into delayed Nyerere Dam

The Julius Nyerere Dam, currently under construction, will be inaugurated in 2024 at the earliest. © Arab Contractors

Tanzanian politicians, eager to identify the underlying causes of the huge delays to the Nyerere Dam project and to pinpoint responsibility, are pushing for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Senior FRELIMO figures join Russian entrepreneur in precious stones venture

A Russian businessman with good contacts in Maputo has gone into partnership with the secretary-general of the FRELIMO veterans association and the godson of former president Armando Guebuza to mine precious stones in Cabo Delgado province.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Morocco
Akhannouch hopes to take on running of Jorf Lasfar port

Prime minister Aziz Akhannouch of Morocco. © Ramon van Flymen/EPA/MaxPPP

With its new subsidiary Hydropipes, the prime minister's Akwa holding company wants to build the oil pipelines at the port of Jorf Lasfar, where several fuel depots are being built or extended. And it is even hoping to manage the facilities.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Libya
Germany's Christian Buck tipped for top UN job in Tripoli

Former German ambassador to Libya Christian Buck. © Twitter/Tobias Tunkel

The war in Ukraine has complicated the appointment of a new UN special representative in Libya, but German diplomat Christian Buck looks like he is in with a strong chance after getting Washington's support. Stephanie Williams is meanwhile due to leave her post as Antonio Guterres' special adviser on Libya at the end of June.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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