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Spotlight | Senegal
Dakar sends €240m tax bill to Frank Timis

An offshore BP platform next to Saint-Louis, Senegal, in November 2024. © Cem Ozdel/Anadolu/AFP

Investigations into Timis in the United States, Britain and Switzerland have all been dropped, but the Australian-Romanian entrepreneur is now facing trouble from Senegal's tax authorities.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
Touadéra's cunning plan to combine electoral polls

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra casts his ballot in the presidential and legislative elections in Bangui, in December 2020. © Adrienne Surprenant/EFE/EPA

Scheduled to take place at the end of August, the local elections that have been eagerly awaited for nearly 40 years have once again been postponed. Instead, the new idea is to hold these and other elections before the end of this year.

Subscribers only Politics

Equatorial Guinea
Ambassador to Paris victim of seizure of 42 Avenue Foch property

At the heart of a long-running legal dispute, the building in the French capital has finally been appropriated by the French authorities. On the same day, Malabo fired its Paris ambassador.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Inner circles | Nigeria
Spymaster Adeola Ajayi, at the heart of Tinubu's security apparatus

Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, director general of the State Security Service. © Screenshot Youtube/Symfoni, 17 February 2025

Adeola Ajayi took the helm of Nigeria's State Security Service a year ago, and quickly outshone his much-maligned predecessor. He is well liked by security heavyweights, and his perfect knowledge of the organisation gives him rare freedom of action.

Subscribers only Defence

Benin
Cotonou to beef up maritime security

What with the planned strengthening of navy, police and customs capabilities and close international cooperation, the Benin authorities are prioritising surveillance of the seaboard.

Subscribers only Defence

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Burundi, Somalia
Gitega troops look set to extend Somalian stay

Despite not being assigned to the new AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia, the Burundian soldiers have remained in Middle Shabelle, an arrangement that could well continue beyond this year.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Djibouti
New tax on money transfer sparks heated debate at Budget Ministry

Due to come into force next week, the new 0.2% levy on certain financial transactions is raising some concern. The Professional Association of Credit Institutions has at least managed to convince the government to make some amendments.

Subscribers only Finance

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Madagascar Airlines CEO Thierry de Bailleul heads towards the exit

Despite his 2025 recovery plan, the French executive was not reappointed CEO of Madagascar's national airline last month.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Morocco
Compagnie Minière de Touissit wins first round of legal battle

The verdict handed down by the Moroccan courts resulted in the acquittal of the mining group in its dispute with the Office des Changes.

Subscribers only Mining

Libya
UN mission seeks way out for Abdelhamid Dabaiba

UNSMIL chief Hanna Tetteh is behind schedule on her new roadmap for steering Libya out of its impasse. However, she is counting on an upcoming Security Council meeting to make her move.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

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