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Spotlight | Libya
Foreign security firms on brink of expulsion

Following the departure of Canada's GardaWorld in mid-April, all foreign security companies may be forced to leave Libya. The authorities are invoking a 2012 law to revise their contracts and restrict their operations, and they also intend to revive a levy on the industry.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Central Africa

Cameroon
Special Criminal Court summons ministers over use of Covid-19 funds

Cameroonian health minister Manaouda Malachie visits the Central Hospital as healthcare workers receive China's Sinopharm vaccines during the COVID-19 vaccination process in Yaounde on 12 April 2021. © Anadolu Agency via AFP

Investigators have been sending out new summons as part of a probe into the alleged embezzlement of IMF funds given to Cameroon to help with its Covid-19 response. Health minister Manaouda Malachie is among those on the list.

Subscribers only Politics

Chad, Sao Tome and Principe
Delicate week of diplomacy in store for ECCAS

Tchad et Sao Tomé-et-Principe... Le programme est chargé en ce mois de mai pour les émissaires de la Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique centrale (CEEAC) qui s'apprêtent à vivre une intense semaine diplomatique.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Mali
Algiers struggles to keep Mali's long-running peace talks alive

Keen to defend its reputation on the international stage, Algeria wants to keep playing a key role in the implementation of the peace agreement signed in Algiers in 2015 which aimed to bring peace to the north of Mali.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ivory Coast
Abidjan in secret talks with Guillaume Soro's entourage

The Ivorian defence minister Téné Birahima Ouattara and the opposition figure Guillaume Soro. © Sia Kambou/Lionel Bonaventure/AFP

The Ivorian defence minister has discreetly met with several members of the inner circle of the leading political opponent in Paris of late. A move that may be designed to isolate him further from his main allies.

Subscribers only Politics

Mali
Moussa Timbiné embarks on international charm offensive

Having launched his new party Convergence in March, Moussa Timbiné, the last speaker of parliament under Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, is gearing up for an international tour to consolidate his support abroad.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenya Commercial Bank targets US diaspora

Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), the country's second largest lender with assets estimated at $9bn, has hired a lobbyist in the United States.

Subscribers only Finance

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Madagascar sapphire mine exposes jewellery firms' hollow ethical claims

A sapphire mines near Ilakaka, Southern Madagascar. © Carlo Morucchio / Robert Harding via AFP

In Madagascar, the epicentre of the sapphire business, luxury groups like Richemont and LVMH have all made traceability commitments for their coloured stone jewellery, but these are not always respected on the ground.

Subscribers only Mining

Botswana, Zambia
Berlin provides €2m for green consulting

L'agence de développement allemande GIZ multiplie les financements de contrats de "consulting vert" à destination de pays d'Afrique australe. En avril, elle a débloqué quelque 2,2 millions d'euros pour des projets sur les terrains botswanais et surtout zambien.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy

North Africa

Morocco
Changes to US import taxes reopen market to OCP

The US Department of Commerce has relaxed conditions on Moroccan fertiliser imports, but local phosphate producer The Mosaic Co, the US competitor of the Moroccan market leader OCP, has not had its final say on the matter.

Subscribers only Mining, Business

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