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In Focus | Kenya
President Ruto grapples to assert power in the face of Kenyatta clan's wealth and Moi family's prestige

William Ruto is concerned about the power of the former presidential families and is seeking to weaken them. © Studio Pachamama // AFP/Tim E White, Image Source/Simon Maina

William Ruto is uneasy about the financial and symbolic weight that the families of Kenya's former leaders carry, and is keen to diminish their power. Numerous political heirs and leaders feature on his list of targets, including Uhuru Kenyatta but especially, Gideon Moi.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Central Africa

Central African Republic
Funding shortfall could scupper local elections

After numerous postponements, Central African Republic is to hold its first elections in 40 years this July. But the financing is far from secure, and international backers are proving reluctant to fork out for the process.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Equatorial Guinea
VP Teodorin Obiang sets trap for his half-brother and rival Gabriel

Equatoguinean Minister of Planning and Economic Diversification, Gabriel Obiang. © Florian Wieser/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The president's favourite son, Teodorin Obiang Nguema, has been trying to sideline his half-brother Gabriel Obiang Lima. In the latest reshuffle, the former oil minister was appointed to the ministry of economic diversification, a political dead end, much to the disappointment of oil investors.

Subscribers only Energy

DRC, Kenya, United States
Blinken and Ruto discuss M23

The situation in the eastern DRC was discussed at length during US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's call to Kenyan President William Ruto.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Niger
China's Nuctech bids for deal to supply Niger with border control equipment

The Chinese security equipment company hopes to bag a contract in Niger to equip the country's customs border posts. The firm, which has close links to the Beijing regime and China's military complex, has come under fire over suspicions of espionage and corruption.

Subscribers only Defence

Ghana
How Accra and ENI, Vitol and CNOOC talks came to nothing

The government and oil operators each claim to be behind the decision to put a stop to negotiations begun over two years ago to acquire new offshore blocks in Ghana. Meanwhile, the country's oil industry is in a critical condition.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Burhan's efforts to see Sudan's AU suspension lifted fail

Ahead of the summit of African Union heads of state to be held on 15 February in Addis Ababa, Sudan has sent a high foreign ministry official to push for its AU membership ban to be overturned.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Jindal embarks on major cost-cutting drive at Moatize

Coal mine of Moatize, on the outskirt of Tete, in Mozambique. © Gianluigi Guercia/AFP

The Indian company, which acquired the gigantic Moatize coal mine from the Brazilian firm Vale in late 2021, is determined to cut back on subcontractor costs and salaries.

Subscribers only Mining

Africa, Comoros islands
Allies eye opportunity as Assoumani takes African Union helm

Comorian president Azali Assoumani. © Dong Jianghui/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

Comoros President Azali Assoumani, who is about to take the helm of the pan-African institution, risks coming under pressure from states that have traditionally been a friend to his archipelago nation. Rwanda, Morocco, DR Congo and France will all be jockeying for advantage from his chairmanship of the African Union.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Algeria, Morocco
Precedence principle plays in Morocco's favour for CAN 2025

Algeria and Morocco are neck and neck in the battle to host the 2025 African Cup of Nations football tournament. The former organised the CAN in 1990, while the latter hosted it in 1988. This precedence could play in Morocco's favour.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Algeria
After Tunisia, Cevital resumes sugar exports to Mauritania and Lebanon

The leading agro-industrial group Cevital and other Algerian sugar refineries resumed exports in late January, after a ten-month ban ordered by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to prevent shortages.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

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