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Spotlight | Egypt
Sisi's cabinet reshuffle creates new defence and diplomatic balance

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on 30 June 2024. © Egyptian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via AFP

Six months after his re-election, the Egyptian president has sacked his influential defence minister, with whom relations had become strained. The new foreign minister he appointed in a major cabinet overhaul is close to the country's intelligence services.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

DRC
Kinshasa tools up with Bulgarian and Serbian arsenals

Balkan defence suppliers are making a killing supplying second-hand tanks, light weapons and ammunition to the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Subscribers only Defence

Cameroon
Voter registration numbers for 2025 presidential elections on the up

Cameroon's election management body, ELECAM, has recorded over 460,000 new voter registrations ahead of the 2025 presidential election, an unprecedented figure.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Gulf of Guinea
French Navy preps for grand meet in West Africa

Exercise carried out during Grand African NEMO in October 2019, with Nigerian special forces and the French Navy. © Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP

The French Navy Atlantic Command is putting the finishing touches to a major event with West African navies in the Gulf of Guinea in October. It will comprise an on-board training course and a large-scale naval exercise, with the aim of also strengthening cooperation between Paris and regional states.

Subscribers only Defence

Nigeria
Lagos set to finalise funding for massive waterways project

The French Development Agency is among the major financial backers of the €410m Lagos waterways transportation project, which is ready for final approval, but must first undergo budget review and overcome a legal dispute.

Free access Infrastructure

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Taqaddum coalition uncertain about attending AU's Sudan summit

The Taqaddum movement claims that there was insufficient consultation on the agenda and list of participants invited to the pan-African institution's extraordinary summit on Sudan, due to begin on 10 July. As such, it is reluctant to send representatives.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Roland Kobia to take over as EU ambassador in Antananarivo

Brussels has chosen a replacement for Isabelle Delattre-Burger, the EU ambassador that Andry Rajoelina indicated in April he wanted removed. Roland Kobia, who is currently the EU ambassador in Addis Ababa, should take up his new post in September.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Tunisia
President's brother Naoufel Saied mysteriously dropped by Italian law firm

Both Giambrone & Partners and Saied himself are giving little away about the current state of their once-close relationship or why it suddenly changed.

Subscribers only Business

Tunisia
Tunis calls on legal consultant Éloïse Obadia in bid to ward off international arbitrations

In an effort to limit foreign investors' recourse to international arbitration, Tunis has enlisted the services of a former senior counsel to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

Subscribers only Business

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