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Spotlight | South Africa
Cyril Ramaphosa more isolated than ever as general elections approach

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses new members of his party, the African National Congress, ahead of the 2024 general elections, north of Durban, on 14 May 2023. © Rajesh JANTILAL / AFP

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, who suffers from serious health problems, has informed Cyril Ramaphosa that he plans to resign. His and other planned departures leave the president with a complicated puzzle to solve just months ahead of general elections which promise to be closely contested.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

Gabon
General Oligui appoints new Paris ambassador

Gabon's transitional president wants to keep civil servants too closely linked to the former regime and former first lady Sylvia Bongo at a distance and so has replaced the country's ambassador to France, Liliane Massala.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Chad
N'Djamena moves to clean up gold mining in Tibesti

Sonemic has set up a "legal gold panning corridor" in Tibesti in the north of Chad, which registers "diggers," supervises their work and makes its safer, and records and traces their production.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Nigeria
Africa Nature Investors puts national parks on carbon credit market

Balarabe Abbas Lawal, Nigeria's environment minister, during the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 9 December 2023. © Dominika Zarzycka / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP

The private foundation in charge of security for two national parks in Nigeria is preparing to enter them on the global carbon market in the hopes of making the conservation of the country's natural environment profitable.

Subscribers only Finance

Ivory Coast
Local cocoa exporters are short of beans

Ivorian cocoa exporters like Africa Sourcing, Kineden and Ecookim have been unable to match the terms offered by the big international groups, who have tripled planters' bonuses. They have managed to execute only 40% of the contracts they signed for the 2023-2024 season.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti
French Ministers Catherine Colonna and Sébastien Lecornu expected in Djibouti

After several years of negotiations, Paris and Djibouti are on the verge of reaching an agreement over the renewal of their ten-year defence cooperation treaty.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Ethiopia
Safaricom revamps its management

In line with the terms of its operating licence, Safaricom is gradually expanding its local workforce in Ethiopia, meaning that expat managers will soon have to pack their bags.

Subscribers only Business

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Apollo 21 affair: negotiations resume on Paul Rafanoharana's transfer

The inauguration of Andry Rajoelina on 16 December will open the way for the resumption of negotiations over the transfer to France of Franco-Madagascan Paul Rafanoharana, whom Madagascan authorities accuse of masterminding the Apollo 21 coup d'état.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Tunisia
Boss of the bosses Samir Majoul brings his succession at UTICA to a standstill

Samir Majoul, then vice-chair of UTICA, at the International Human Rights Federation headquarters in Paris on 15 October 2015. © KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP

Confident in the knowledge that he has the head of state's support, Samir Majoul, chairman of national employers' body UTICA, is not in a hurry to step down. He keeps delaying the holding of a conference to choose his successor.

Subscribers only Politics

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