The United Nations is seeking to take direct control of the disarmament of militias and the withdrawal of foreign forces away from the Libyan transitional government. Meanwhile the country's legislative and presidential elections scheduled for December 24 this year look more undermined than ever.
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President Tshisekedi wants to quickly find investors for the most promising permits in the DRC. While his minister of hydrocarbons Didier Budimbu is scoping the field, the game is still on.
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Energy Louis-Marie Walle Lufungula, who was forced out of his position as governor for having refused to join the political alliance headed by President Félix Tshisekedi, has set up his own mining company with members of his family.
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Mining Savannah has hired British recruitment firm Aldelia to handle its absorption of Exxon's Doba employees and to recruit new staff as the US giant prepares to pull out of Chad.
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Energy In a sign of an acceleration of discussions on signing a financing agreement between Brazzaville and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA), the Congolese authorities are in the process of setting up a structure dedicated to monitoring the projects financed by this institution within the Ministry of Regional Planning, Infrastructure and Road Maintenance.
The Indian defence, construction, and engineering conglomerate Limco is to carry out its first operation on the African continent. It has been appointed site manager for the construction of more than a thousand civilian housing units for the Ghanaian army, and it also intends to sell its security services in the region.
One of Patrick Pouyanné's closest aides is hoping to get sponsored by members of the Académie des Sciences d'Outre-mer so as to be inducted into the exclusive century-old academic institution.
The Afar, who are very economically dependent on their neighbours in Tigray, have been hard hit by the civil war ravaging northern Ethiopia.
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Politics London-listed Pan African Resources, which already operates three gold mines in South Africa, has decided to turn to Sudan, a country rich in the yellow metal and now open to foreign investors. Companies from China, Iraq, and Armenia have also obtained permits from the authorities.
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Mining Tension is rising between Brussels and Addis Ababa. In the midst of intense dialogue, notably on the issue of the war in Tigray, the EU's new special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Annette Weber, is still waiting to meet with the Ethiopian autoritites.
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Lucinda Malema relies on the chief of staff of the governor of Nampula, Rodrigues Ussene, to strengthen her control of the area neighbouring Cabo Delgado, which has become key for Filipe Nyusi. The president has placed all his military logistics there.
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Moscow and Ottawa are each trying to insist upon their candidate to take over from the Canadian Colin Stewart as head of the UN mission for Western Sahara. But Rabat is trying to hold up the process as much as possible.
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