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Spotlight | Uganda
TotalEnergies faces rising religious opposition to EACOP project

Activists of the multi-religious Greenfaith movement in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 1 September 2022. © Thomas Lohnes/Imago

The pipeline that TotalEnergies and CNOOC plan to build between Uganda and Tanzania is under fire from influential east African and French religious leaders. Their protests have forced the French major to try and justify the project publicly.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Chad
Communications between N'Djamena and Doha break down

The Chadian transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby with the Qatari emir Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani, in Doha, Qatar, on 8 August 2022. © Amiri Diwan of the State of Qatar/Anadolu Agency via AFP

Three months after the end of preliminary talks between the government and Chadian military opposition groups in Doha, relations between N'Djamena and Qatar are at rock bottom. It is a situation that is undermining all the mechanisms for monitoring the national dialogue.

Free access Diplomacy

DRC
Tshisekedi in market for two helicopters and King Air 200

Félix Tshisekedi devrait prochainement réceptionner deux hélicoptères civils H130 (Airbus Helicopters) et un avion bimoteur Beechcraft King Air modèle 200.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

West Africa

Nigeria
MBDA and Abuja still mired in Exocet missile deal 30 years on

In October, the European missile manufacturer MBDA and the Nigerian Navy resumed the seemingly endless discussions aimed at reaching a financial agreement over the sale of Exocet missiles that have never been used by the navy.

Subscribers only Defence

Ivory Coast
Football boss Motsepe heads to Abidjan to sign controversial CAN 2024 deal

Patrice Motsepe, the South African president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), is due to visit Abidjan on 11 November to finalise a new agreement for the African Cup of Nations to be held in Ivory Coast in January 2024.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Senegal
Sall greenlights Atepa's Africa Steel and Aluminium Alliance project

Dans un courrier daté du 7 octobre, le président sénégalais Macky Sall a apporté son soutien à Pierre Goudiaby Atepa pour la mise en œuvre de son mégaprojet annoncé en mai, l'Africa Steel and Aluminium Alliance.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy, Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Somalia
EU to assist Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with state audit

The European Union's delegation to Somalia, based in Nairobi in Kenya, is shortly expected to announce the results of a tender to provide technical assistance to the office of Somalia's Auditor General Mohamed Mahmoud Ali, OAGS.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Africa
Food security top of agenda at ACP-EU assembly

The 42nd ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, held in Maputo, was largely devoted to the supply of agricultural inputs and cereals to those African countries most affected by the consequences of the war in Ukraine.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
TotalEnergies boss Patrick Pouyanné sorts out South African subsidiary

Annoyed by his company's lack of results on block 11B/12B in South Africa, the CEO of TotalEnergies made a trip to the country in person. The South African subsidiary now also has a new boss.

Subscribers only Energy

South Africa
Senosi's roll in coal: after a mine, company buys coal logistics firm

On 3 November, the South African competition commission gave Senosi Group the green light for its acquisition of Sobotshane Investments, a coal logistics company also based in Mpumalanga.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Algeria
Sonatrach loses two years and $20m on new gas project

State-owned Sonatrach signed a contract for the construction of a liquefied petroleum gas train in Rhourde El Baguel at the end of October with Italian group Maire Tecnimont. The contract, which has been much wrangled over, could have been signed two years earlier, however, for a much lower price.

Subscribers only Energy

Algeria, Ivory Coast
Algiers and Abidjan look to strengthen trade

President of the Algerian Confederation of Citizen Employers (CAPC) Sami Agli, Algiers, March 2021. © Ryad Kramdi/AFP

Though still modest, the volume of trade between Algeria and Ivory Coast is set to increase. The recent trip to Abidjan by Sami Agli, president of the Algerian Confederation of Citizen Employers, was designed to identify sectors offering high potential.

Subscribers only West Africa, Business

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