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Inner circles | DRC
SADC regional force chief Monwabisi Dyakopu walks tightrope against M23

After almost four months in charge of a regional intervention force deployed to restore peace to eastern DRC, the South African is frustrated by a shortage of men and resources. And a chronically strained relationship with MONUSCO isn't helping.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

Cameroon
Biya snaps up new national football coach for 'bargain' €480,000

Cameroon's sports minister Narcisse Mouelle Kombi (left) and the new coach of the Indomitable Lions, the Belgian Marc Brys, on 9 April 2024 in Yaoundé. © Kepseu/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

Marc Brys has been chosen to coach the Indomitable Lions, his salary request being within the budgetary limits the state had set itself. The Belgian was the least demanding financially, but not the least experienced, of the candidates.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Cameroon
BGFI Cameroun quits EY for KPMG

Put off by the dispute between the former partners of Ernst & Young (EY) in Cameroon, BGFI Cameroun has opted to turn to the competition for its next contract.

Subscribers only Finance

West Africa

Ivory Coast, Senegal
Diomaye Faye's phone call to Ouattara

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye (left) and his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara. © Jérôme Favre/EPA/MaxPPP - Legnan Koula/EPA/MaxPPP

A few days before the inauguration of Senegal's new president, the outgoing Macky Sall played matchmaker between his successor and the Ivorian leader.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Togo
Lawyers lobby in Paris against Gnassingbé's constitutional reforms

Already under pressure at home, the Togolese president is seeing his constitutional reform challenged in Paris by a group of lawyers of African origin.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Washington changes strategy ahead of fresh talks in Jeddah

US Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello. © Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

Talks led by the US and Saudi Arabia aimed at resolving Sudan's civil war are due to resume in the coming days. The new US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, hopes to learn from his predecessors' failings.

Free access Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Taxman steps up pressure on local businesses

At least a dozen large local companies have had their bank accounts debited directly by the tax authority following tax reassessments, which they dispute. Many more companies stand to suffer the same fate.

Subscribers only Business

Angola
Lourenço helps Gemcorp extend foothold in energy sector

The British investment firm run by Atanas Bostandjiev has won yet another major energy contract with the help of the Angolan president.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy

North Africa

Morocco
Government forks out to lure Chinese battery maker BTR

The government has agreed to finance between 10% and 15% of the cost of a cathode factory as part of its bid to attract the Chinese group BTR, a world leader in electric battery component manufacture.

Subscribers only Business

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