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Spotlight | Ivory Coast
ENI keeps president close and subcontractors hanging ahead of Baleine launch

ENI president Claudio Descalzi and Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara address a press conference on 10 December 2021 at the presidential palace in Abidjan. © Sia Kambou/AFP

As the Italian major moves towards the start of production from the Baleine discovery, CEO Claudio Descalzi has been making sure every thing goes smoothly with the Ivorian authorities. After several trips to visit President Alassane Ouattara, he is now planning another journey to Abidjan.

Subscribers only Energy

The Continent

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mamadi Doumbouya, Robert Friedland, Paul Henri Damiba, Mahamadou Bonkoungou, Macky Sall

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

CongoSassou writes his story.

GuineaRobert Friedland, unofficial adviser to Colonel Doumbouya.

Burkina FasoMahamadou Bonkoungou pays Damiba an evening visit.

Senegal/QatarSall hopes for tête-à-tête with Al Thani.

Free access Politics, Business, Diplomacy

Central Africa

Congo, Gabon
Gabon probe into Guy Nzouba-Ndama case focuses on Congolese lead

Former chairman of Gabonese national Assembly and candidate for country's presidential election Guy Nzouba Ndama, in Libreville on 24 June 2016. © Samir Tounsi/AFP

Ali Bongo's opponent and former Gabon National Assembly speaker Guy Nzouba-Ndama was arrested at the border in September in possession of 1.19bn CFA francs. Behind the arrest lies a dispute between Congolese spymaster Jean-Dominique Okemba and Guy Pella, a top official working for President Sassou.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Chad
Kaka's reprieve from the African Union PSC explained

The ruling junta in N'Djamena has succeeded in avoiding suspension from the AU. Its subtle game of dividing the Peace and Security Council's 15 members has paid off.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

DRC
Claude Ibalanky's dealings with M23 embarrass Tshisekedi administration

The head of the National Mechanism for Monitoring the Addis Ababa Framework Agreement, Claude Ibalanky, has been criticised for his handling of the situation with the M23. Africa Intelligence has been given access to the minutes of a meeting where he met the rebel group's leaders.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

West Africa

Mali
General Yamoussa Camara, the Mali junta's éminence grise

Yamoussa Camara, then secretary of defence, stands with François Lecointre, commander of the European Union Training Mission in Mali (EUTM Mali) on 18 March 2013. © Oliver Lang/dpa/picture-alliance/MaxPPP

Yamoussa Camara has in less than a year become one of the most influential figures in Mali's Koulouba presidential palace. Junta leader Assimi Goïta made him his permanent secretary last year, and he advises the five putschist colonels he had under his command at a military high school in the 1990s.

Subscribers only Politics

Ivory Coast
Ahmed Cissé sole candidate to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as employers' association head

The coming election to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as president of the Ivory Coast employers' association CGECI is expected to be a mere formality, as the electoral committee has received only the application of Ahmed Cissé.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
The Ruto allies who might take reins of central bank

Should, as our sources intimate, the governorship of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) fall vacant ahead of schedule, it could well go to an economist close to William Ruto. Such an appointment would help the president seal his political alliances.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Namibia
Shiloam Mining set for fast-tracked copper permit

Far from the Kalahari Copperbelt, the Namibian company co-managed by former mining ministry official Edward Godfried is about to obtain two copper mining licences near the Angolan border.

Subscribers only Mining

Botswana, Namibia
Ralph Muyamba shakes suspicions in Windhoek to start afresh in Gaborone

The former ministry of mines adviser at the heart of a corruption scandal in the Namibian government has created a mining exploration firm in Botswana. He set the business up with his brother, already an active mining investor in Namibia.

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