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Spotlight | Tanzania
President Hassan kick-starts her diplomatic service

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan. © Daniel Irungu/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Newly installed President Samia Suluhu Hassan has put career diplomats back in charge at the top of the foreign ministry. Although not much more than a symbolic departure from the Magufuli era, it has been enough to attract overseas delegations.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Inner circles | DRC
Hard road ahead for new PM to step out of president's grip

DRC Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge. © DRC Prime minister

The DRC's new prime minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge will have trouble placing his supporters in government and standing up to the president.

Subscribers only Politics

Congo
Sassou loyalist Athanase Ngassaki appointed Banque congolaise de l'habitat chairman

Athanase Ngassaki, who advises the Congolese president on economic issues, has been been parachuted into the top job at the Banque congolaise de l'habitat, one of the country's two state-owned banks.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Cameroon
Hayatou dynasty lets Garoua throne slip away

The election of Captain Ibrahim El Rachidine to the throne of the Lamido of Garoua was facilitated by infighting among the Hayatou family. This dynasty, which had until now controlled the great chieftaincy, includes a former king of African football and several of President Paul Biya's ex-ministers.

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Chad
Kaka ready to make concessions on transitional charter

Yielding to international pressure, the head of the interim goverment Mahamat Idriss Déby, aka "Kaka", has pledged to modify parts of the charter governing the 18-month transition period. On 18 May, the UN Security Council will address the country's situation.

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Cameroon
Cameroon's C-130s grounded for months due to unpaid bills

Cameroon's defence ministry is unable, due to lack of funds, to meet its contractual obligations to Marshall Aerospace and Aeromec, which have been contracted to maintain the air force's three C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Cocoa unions resist rolling blackout plans

An employee of the Ivory Coast Electricity Company (CIE) at a hydroelectric dam station.

For weeks frequent power cuts have put pressure on the country and industry unions have held several meetings with the ministry of energy to review its rolling blackout plan.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders, Business

Africa, Lebanon
Lebanese banks' African subsidiaries hit by chaos back home

The ongoing political and financial disaster in Lebanon is slowing the growth of the country's banks in Africa. Bank Audi has sacrificed its Egyptian subsidiary in order to inject some liquidity into its parent company.

Free access Finance, Business

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
As Eskom falters, mining industry struggles to generate its own electricity

Mining companies keen to build their own renewable energy plants have run into a wall of South African red tape and are increasingly frustrated by the shortcomings of the public utility company Eskom, which are affecting the entire sector.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa's PR misses a step over Kazungula Bridge

Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi cuts the ribbon to mark the official opening of the Kazungula Bridge connecting Botswana and Zambia on May 10, 2021. © Tshekiso Tebalo / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

Present for the inauguration of the Kazungula Bridge, which spans the Zambezi River between Botswana and Zambia, Emmerson Mnangagwa and his PR team would appear to have somewhat exaggerated the role of the Zimbabwean president in the bridge's construction.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Diplomacy

North Africa

Tunisia
No solution for budget crisis as Mechichi is cold-shouldered by IMF and Ghannouchi by Doha

Having failed to present a structural reform plan to the International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi is unlikely to get any new budgetary aid in the short term. Parliamentary speaker Rached Ghannouchi, meanwhile, has been unable to obtain support from his allies in Qatar.

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Algeria
Low-profile Elbayrak Construction enters the big time

Algeria's national housing agency, the Agence nationale d'amélioration et de développement du logement algérienne (AADL), has added a new favourite, Elbayrak Construction, to its accredited list of contractors for large-scale housing construction projects.

Subscribers only Business

Libya
Macron leavesel-Menfi and Libya off guest list for Parisian summits

Emmanuel Macron with Mohamed al-Menfi at the Elysee Palace, March 2021. © Jacopo Landi / Hans Lucas.

The president of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohamed al-Manfi is disappointed at not being invited to the summit on African economies and the international conference on supporting the Sudanese transition being organised by Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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