Somalia's president, increasingly isolated in the international arena, saw his term in office end on 8 February. He is desperately seeking support from outside his clan to keep himself in the top job.
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The Cameroonian authorities have brought the curtain down on the operations of the business travel specialist Global-S-Aviation. And its founder, the vastly wealthy businessman Mohamadou Dabo, is facing prosecution over the contract to upgrade Garoua airport.
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Britain's Court of Appeal has dismissed the claim of thousands of Nigerians affected by an oil spill after a Shell pipeline burst and polluted coastal villages.
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Energy Berlin is stepping up its military aid to Niamey by gifting 15 armoured vehicles to Niger's army. The arrangement allows International Armored Group to continue its expansion in Africa.
As the Mauritanian government prepares a bill to break the central bank's monopoly on the trade of gold produced in the country, a consortium consisting of the local firm Magma Group, the NGO PACT and the Monegasque refinery Aurum Monaco has applied for a licence to start up as a trader.
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Mining Installed as prime minister since July, Hamed Bakayoko has upended standard protocol by demoting several ministers seen as close to his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly just weeks ahead of an eagerly awaited reshuffle.
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Politics The Arise IIP fund, which combines Nigeria's Africa Finance Corp and Indo-Singaporean agribusiness giant Olam, has appointed a team of advisors to lobby the governments of the countries where the fund invests and the international bodies that regulate industrial parks.
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Business The Sierra Leonean authorities have decided to temporarily back-pedal on their 100 MW gas-fired power plant close to Freetown.
Following the appointment of a new government and three new members of the Sovereign Council, the rebel leaders who signed the 3 October peace accord are vying for the last remaining posts in the administration.
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Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has put together a solid team of experts to work on getting Mauritius off the European Union's blacklist of third countries that pose a risk to the bloc because of anti-money laundering deficiencies.
Having kept a low profile in recent years after a run-in with the British courts, the Finnish media and mining magnate Ahti Vilppula has made a reappearance... in Botswana.
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Mining To carve itself out a niche in a road construction market currently buoyed by the influx of oil companies, the leading local construction firm Escopil, founded by a couple of ex-ministers, has turned to the former MD of the South African giant Group Five.
Even though his appeal against his recent prison sentence is still underway in Madagascar, ex-communications minister Rolly Mercia, who cooperated with a French investigation into the activities of business magnate and presidential adviser Maminiaina Ravatomanga, has asked the United Nations Human Rights Committee to take up his case.
The electronic surveillance system on the Tunisian border, 285 km long and built by Aecom subsidiary URS, is supposed to detect jihadists trying to enter from Libya.
Mohamed Hassan Bensalah's powerful holding company has approached Delta Aerospace, run by retired general Mohamed Oujamaâ, to make its concession at Casablanca airport more profitable.
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