Just hours before the police planned to arrest him, Kabila's former chief spy vanished into thin air, leaving both sides of the political divide in a state of nervous tension.
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The Congolese president will likely reassert his control over the handling of the mega-dam, leaving little room for his new ministers to have much political sway.
A former employee of Swiss trader Gunvor admitted in early April that he paid nearly $22m in bribes to Ecuadorian officials between 2012 and 2019 to win contracts with the state-run oil company. He was working under the supervision of executives who were already in their jobs when a similar case occurred in 2012 in Congo and Ivory Coast.
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Macky Sall pays great attention to his public image, which is handled by a small group of advisers based at the president's office. They are currently trying to restore his reputation after it took a heavy knock in the violent demonstrations of March.
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Politics The Emirati businessman Zayed al Bloushi was recently in Guinea to meet with the authorities to discuss both Ghantoot's projects in the country and its subsidiary MCI's battle with its bauxite partner, Monaco Resources.
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Mining The Burkinabe construction magnate Mahamadou Bonkoungou is keen to get official approval for the upgrading of the coastal road between Abidjan and San Pedro - a project that he had already floated to the government of the late Hamed Bakayoko.
A French court has upheld a ruling ordering Guinea to settle the unpaid invoices of the Israeli businessman's company AD Trade for the supply of equipment for an intelligence unit for Alpha Conde.
As we understand, the French minister for the economy and [...]
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Diplomacy Secrétaire générale du Sommet Afrique-France, qui se tiendra du 8 au 10 juillet prochain, à Montpellier, la diplomate française Elisabeth Barbier a quitté ses fonctions mi-avril, pour "convenance personnelle".
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While Kenyatta favourite Raila Odinga reaches out to the opposition, Musalia Mudavadi and Mukhisa Kituyi have called on their sponsors to support their bid in State House to be designated as the president's new candidate.
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Now that the South African Reserve Bank has licensed it, the leading reinsurance company Swiss Re has since mid-March been [...]
As the flagship event of Portugal's presidency of the EU looms, Lisbon has been keen to secure South African backing for its green financing for Africa initiative.
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Diplomacy Depuis le début du mois d'avril, l'homme d'affaires français Christophe Peschaud tente de se faire une place dans les ressources humaines spécialisées dans le secteur gazier à Maputo.
Turkey's Baykar, which has close links with Erdogan, is to supply attack drones to the Moroccan army. The contract will not radically change the military balance between Morocco and Algeria but has been signed just as hostilities are resuming against Polisario in Western Sahara.
Appointed without fanfare as "France's special envoy for Libya" in mid-March, Paul Soler travelled to Rome in mid-April to discuss the the situation in Libya.
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