As the fighting between the TPLF-led rebel coalition and the Ethiopian federal army intensifies just 400km from the capital, Western embassies are each working on separate and contradictory exit plans.
Little inclined to support N'Djamena directly under the rule of Idriss Déby, the European Union has agreed to provide exceptional budgetary assistance to Chad at a time when its finances are in especially poor shape.
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Diplomacy Previously operating in the health sector, the company Energy 24 has decided to explore the nickel and chrome concessions of the state-owned company MIBA in Kasai.
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Mining The UN Security Council is renewing MINSUCA's mandate on Friday. The discussions began in October and have been strained, as Moscow has sought to ease the arms embargo on the Central African Republic. Relations between Bangui and the UN mission remain tense.
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Having arrived in power after staging a coup against Alpha Condé, Mamady Doumbouya has now put the finishing touches to his government. But the mining portfolio, the most important in the country, has been divested of some its key prerogatives, ensuring that the junta leader remains in firm control of the engine room of the Guinean economy.
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Mining Following the discovery, announced in September, of the Baleine deposit, Eni has been in touch with the Ivorian government to ensure both parties see eye to eye on the site's development. The Italian major intends to move full steam ahead so as to rapidly reach the plateau phase, much to the delight of President Ouattara.
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Energy Colonel Pesse Egbare Bassayi, head of the services and equipment acquisition division of the Togolese Armed Forces (FAT), visited the premises of the armoured vehicle manufacturer Inkas Vehicles, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates this week.
Uhuru Kenyatta, who has campaigned for Raila Odinga in the Mount Kenya region, is currently galvanising his political and financial network in the Rift Valley on behalf of his protégé.
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Diplomacy The Afar Revolutionary Democratic United Front, one of the movements that joined the TPLF last week in its fight against the government of Abiy Ahmed, was long a bitter enemy of the Tigrayans.
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Outside of Zambia the new president is trying to come across as a reformer who will extricate the country from its massive debts. To do so, he is counting on both his cabinet and a State House made up of political companions and close acquaintances where, three months after the election, the power balance is still shifting.
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Politics One of Morocco's leading retailers, and Carrefour's partner in the north African country, is taking an interest in the call for tenders issued by the Angolan government to take over the management of twelve Kero hypermarkets that were previously owned by allies of the ex-Angolan president.
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Business In a historic year for growth in the copper sector, the Matsitama project, which has been in receivership since 2015, has found a new buyer: the Canadian Eastport Ventures.
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The head of the Tunisian government and her foreign minister have been in Paris since 10 November but without the usual cohort of diplomatic advisers. And with good reason: Najla Bouden, who does not have the prerogatives of previous Tunisian prime ministers, is still without a personal team.
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