Defence firms Dyck Advisory Group and Paramount have cornered the counter-insurgency market in Mozambique. Paramount will provide the army with ground an air support, while Dyck is extending his collaboration with the police. Both are due to heavily equip Mozambique's forces.
The replacement of four ministers in Christiane Rose Ossouka Raponda's government has done nothing to quell the infighting, especially between oil minister Vincent de Paul Massassa and head of the hydrocarbons division Jean-Félix Obamba.
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Energy After having long been put off, the Cameroonian authorities' plans to build a new road to decongest the country's business capital are to be put into the hands of a public-private partnership.
The British junior New Age is to have an extra year to conduct drilling on its Congolese exploration permit for Marine III.
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Demanding compensation for Ghana's refusal to renew its Gbane gold licence, Cassius Mining has reached a tentative agreement with a litigation funder to pay its arbitration costs.
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Mining Following a submission of arguments on 7 December, the commercial court of Paris has postponed until 11 January its ruling on the €1M paid by Sipromad to Euronews for the planned purchase of the pan-African media service Africanews.
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The American lawyer Jeremy Schulman stands accused by the US Department of Justice of having personally benefited from a move to recover Somalian state assets a decade ago. The affair could compromise the reputation of the then government and its leader, the ex-president Hassan Sheikh, who is bidding to return to power next February.
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Politics Soon to be deprived of virtually all of the US special forces that had been training it, the African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia will nevertheless continue to receive support from contractors funded by the Pentagon and State Department.
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The French giant Imerys, the co-owner of a graphite mine in northern Namibia, has decided to continue exploration around the site, despite the difficulties it has experienced since it was opened in 2017.
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The Spanish technology firm Indra Sistemas has beaten off its French, American and Italian rivals to snap up the contract to supply medium- and long-range radar systems to the Tunisian air force.
The Libyan Investment Authority wants to recover the £12m it invested in 2010 for the construction of a hotel in England but the accused party's lawyers deny that their client conspired against the fund.
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Business During his visit to Paris, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discussed the situation in Libya at length with Emmanuel Macron, but did not raise any of the African issues such as Sudan and the GERD that are exercising the Egyptian diplomats.
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