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Spotlight | Sudan
Burhan faced with headache of replacing Hamdok

Sudan's General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. © EPA-EFE/Republican Media Palace/Handout/MaxPPP

In the hope of not totally alienating itself from the United States and the European Union, the regime of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is striving to find an acceptable replacement for its civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok, who quit the administration on 2 January.

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The Continent

Africa, Brazil
Brazil aims to boost aid to Lusophone Africa

The Brazilian Cooperation Agency has mostly been active in Latin America and the Caribbean. Now it's working to beef up its technical support for Portuguese-speaking African countries at a time when former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is making a promising bid to get back into office.

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Central Africa

Cameroon
Redundancy plan of public broadcaster CRTV in limbo

Hit hard by plummeting advertising revenues, national broadcaster CRTV contracted an auditor last June to help it cut back its payroll, which had been growing for several years. But the audit has never actually got underway.

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West Africa

Senegal
Gaby Peretz puts €300m on table for Senegalese military

The highly successful Israeli broker and close friend to Macky Sall has opened a €300m credit line to help strengthen the Senegalese military over the next three years despite budget difficulties.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

West Africa
Security issues in Pendjari curtail Lionel Talon's tourism ambitions

Lionel Talon, son of Beninese president Patrice Talon. © Presidency of the Republic of Benin

A few months ago, the son of the Beninese president embarked on the renovation of Pendjari Safari Lodge, but business there is likely to a take a nosedive following a deadly attack perpetrated on 6 January in the national park.

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Nigeria
Sylva and Buhari keep Petronor and Panoro waiting on Aje

Secretary of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva and the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari. © @HETimipreSylva, @MBuhari/Twitter

The Nigerian authorities are dragging their feet on signing the Aje deal and, despite the new petroleum act, doing business in Nigeria remains difficult.

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France, Togo
Influential law professor Charles Debbasch dies quietly in France

Charles Debbasch in 1994, then dean of the Faculty of Law of Aix-en-Provence. © MaxPPP

Frenchman Charles Debbasch, a professor of administrative law and architect of tailor-made constitutions in Africa, died on 8 January, though his family had been trying to keep the news under wraps. Until the end of his life Debbasch advised Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé, who welcomed him to Togo shortly after his conviction in France over his management of the Vasarely Foundation.

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Southern Africa and islands

Malawi
JCM Power requests last-minute World Bank help with Golomoti solar power plant

Ten months after works began, the construction of the Golomoti solar power plant in #Malawi is close to being completed.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

North Africa

Western Sahara
Western Sahara supporters square up to Rabat-Brussels alliance

The Association of Friends of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic will next month accompany another group of European MPs and journalists to refugee camps in Algeria. The trip comes soon after Brussels painted a rosy picture of the impact in Western Sahara of an EU-Morocco free trade deal.

Free access Diplomacy

Tunisia
Second chance to bid for construction of Bizerte Bridge

The bidding process for the construction of the Bizerte Bridge has been reopened. Although Tunisia's Ministry of Equipment and Housing was already examining submitted bids in December 2020, none of them have so far been selected.

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Morocco
Rabat keen to rejoin executive board following UNESCO humilation

After losing its seat on UNESCO's executive board in November, Moroccan diplomacy is working to wipe the slate clean and prepare its return to the UN body.

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