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Spotlight | Africa
African issues set to dominate Commonwealth summit

Ghana's Minister for Foreign Affairs Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, in Turkey on 12 March 2022. © Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu via AFP

At the Commonwealth summit at the end of October, an African national is set to take the helm of the body's secretariat. Of the three candidates in play, Ghana's Shirley Botchwey, who enjoys Kenya's support, appears to be the front-runner.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
Bangui considers Russian-influenced bill to keep tabs on 'foreign agents'

The National Assembly has just begun discussing a bill aimed at monitoring any private individuals or legal entities whom the authorities consider to be "financially controlled" from abroad. The bill is particularly worrying for the charity sector.

Subscribers only Politics

Africa
Russia still to choose venue for third Russia-Africa summit

Russia's ministry of foreign affairs is keen to hold the next Russia-Africa summit on the continent. But Tatiana Dovgalenko, who has been at the helm since September, has run into a number of logistical snags.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Nigeria
Abuja and Brasília to strengthen cooperation on fighting cocaine trafficking

As presidents Tinubu and Lula push for the opening of a direct air service between their two countries, the Nigerian and Brazilian drug enforcement agencies fear that the line could become a new vector for trafficking.

Subscribers only Defence

Senegal
Bassirou Diomaye Faye lobbies for Amadou Hott to take over as AfDB President

Senegal's president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, recently approached the Heads of State of the African Development Bank's shareholder countries to declare his official support for Amadou Hott's candidacy to head the institution.

Subscribers only Finance

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Gachagua weighs up his post-impeachment options

Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua during a press conference at his official residence in Nairobi, on 7 October 2024. © Luis Tato/AFP

Though his fate is not yet sealed, Kenya's deputy president has spent the last few months trying to drum up new political allies. They include the son of former president Mwai Kibaki as well as business leaders and traditional elites in the Mount Kenya region.

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Ethiopia
Well-connected Ethiopian Olympics boss defies human trafficking accusations

Athletes from Ethiopia's delegation at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games on 26 July 2024. © Aytac Unal/Anadolu via AFP

The president of the Ethiopian Olympic Committee has been accused of taking advantage of the Paris Games to facilitate visas for several delegates with no connection to the event. Ashebir Woldegiorgis Gayo, a member of the ruling Prosperity Party, enjoys parliamentary immunity.

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Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
QMM suspends paying out dividend to sovereign wealth fund deemed unfit for purpose

Rio Tinto's Madagascan subsidiary, which mines ilmenite in the south of the island, has had to postpone paying out a $12m dividend for 2023 to the country's new Sovereign Wealth Fund as it does not meet the proper conditions.

Subscribers only Mining

South Africa
Paris supports Pretoria in cybersecurity

France is funding and training staff for a new South African cybercrime and anti-corruption academy. Bilateral exchanges are set to intensify over the coming months.

Free access Defence

North Africa

Algeria
Ex-DGSN security service chief Abdelghani Hamel back in hospital

Former national police commissioner Abdelghani Hamel was admitted to the Mustapha-Pacha hospital in Algiers in early October to undergo major surgery.

Subscribers only Politics

Morocco
Confédération Marocaine des TPE-PME keeps up pressure on Chakib Alj

With around 30 companies still awaiting payment for services provided to Les Jeunes Maçons, chair of the Moroccan employers' organisation, Abdellah Fergui, is trying to get the authorities involved.

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