President Buhari has put an entirely new team at the helm of the Nigerian military. Both public opinion and the military itself have welcomed the overhaul, while national security adviser Babagana Monguno has kept his job and could even consolidate his influence.
Hoping to be re-elected for a fourth term on 21 March, the Congolese leader Denis Sassou Nguesso recently retained the services of two PR firms in the French and American capitals to shore up his rather tattered international image.
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Politics The World Bank, which is coordinating the contributions of various donors to the Mwinda fund, has indicated a potential contribution of its own of one hundred million dollars.
Not all is well at Pertamina's local subsidiary Maurel & Prom Gabon, which has faced high staff turnover, in-house quarrels and financial setbacks.
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Energy 
The Guinea-Bissau leader Umaro Sissoco Embaló is constantly globetrotting in search of potential investors and these days hardly bothers to unpack his case in Bissau between two trips.
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Diplomacy According to our information, late last year the Swiss trader Vitol was forced to give up its CI-202, CI-523 and CI-525 offshore blocks, the licences for their exploration having expired.
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Energy 
In a story that Africa Intelligence has been following since last autumn, the multiple private investigations into the Israeli-American geothermal energy producer Ormat, which is very active in Kenya, have given rise since the beginning of this month to a series of stock market offensives against the company, which is listed in New York and Tel Aviv.
With a background mostly in development aid, the new ambassador to Mogadishu Kate Foster will have to be quick on her feet as she has arrived bang in the middle of an unprecedented electoral crisis that has already put her in an awkward position.
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Diplomacy Germany's only maritime surveillance plane is to leave Djibouti, where it has been conducting counter-piracy missions around the Horn of Africa alongside its European allies as part of Operation Atalanta. The aircraft may be redeployed to the Mediterranean to watch over Libyan waters.
Uganda's African Gold Refinery has slammed the European Union's new mining traceability rules, which it says are designed to prevent Africa from processing ore locally. This attack appears to be a way of responding to accusations of being involved in the smuggling of gold from the Great Lakes region.
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Mining Guinea's foreign affairs minister Ibrahima Kalil Kaba to travel to Egypt this weekend to discuss plans for the future 90MW hydropower plant at Fomi.
Known in Namibia for his taste for big game hunting, Russian oligarch Rashid Sardarov has recently expanded his business interests in the country, despite having kept a low profile in Africa.
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Business 
A number of IT security firms are making overtures to interior minister Abdelouafi Laftit as he looks to improve security on the ministry's IT network. He has issued a tender call with the aim of finding a company to replace the existing security system with a new one.
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Business Instead of the "technocratic" government he promised, Abdelhamid Dabaiba, a former businessman and political novice, has appointed a number of Gaddafi era figures to key ministerial posts.
