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In Focus | Africa, United Nations
Chad, Togo and Ivory Coast vie for blue helmet contracts

A Chadian MINUSMA soldier parades during a visit by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous to Tessalit, Mali, in March 2013. © UN Photo/Marco Dormino

Amid Europe's gradual military withdrawal from Mali and as peacekeeping needs grow in the Central African Republic, three states are jostling for lucrative troop contribution contracts. But the UN's strict rules on equipment and training place tall hurdles in the way of their ambitions.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

DRC
Global Sovereign Advisory acts as sherpa for Tshisekedi in Washington

Global Sovereign Advisory, a small French boutique bank, is helping Kinshasa in its talks with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Subscribers only Business

Gabon
Libreville hopes to lure foreign investors with new financial vehicle for major infrastructure projects

On 10 May, Libreville registered in Mauritius the company Inpax Africa, a financial vehicle for foreign investors interested in two major infrastructure works around Gabon's capital.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance, Business

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Secret conversations between Alassane Ouattara and Tidjane Thiam

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and financier Tidjane Thiam. © Denis Balibouse/Reuters/Legnan Koula/EPA/MaxPPP

The previously strained relations between the Ivorian president and the Franco-Ivorian financier have eased in recent months. The two have spoken several times on the phone and those around the former Credit Suisse chief executive are now starting to refer implicitly to plans to visit Abidjan.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Rwanda
Mushikiwabo back in Kigali on Francophonie business diplomacy mission

Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary General of the OIF. © Moussa Mohamed Ahmed/Twitter

The head of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Louise Mushikiwabo, is to lead a first francophone economic and trade mission to Africa in July, taking in Gabon and Rwanda.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Tanzania
Government officials regret closing down public refineries as fuel prices soar

Several senior figures are urging that the public company responsible for refineries, which was partially closed down in 1999 and now only deals with stocks, be given a new lease of life.

Subscribers only Energy

Sudan
Burhan sends a friend to France for ambassadorial role

Sudan has proposed Khalid Mohammed Farah Elfahal to head its embassy in France. As in most Western countries where diplomats have taken a stand against the 25 October coup in Khartoum, ambassadorial posts have to be filled to replace those who resigned.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

East Africa, Kenya
Kenyan entrepreneurs advance cautiously in DRC, new EAC frontier market

Kenyan entrepreneurs have been jockeying for a slice of the Congolese economic pie since the DRC joined the East African Community (EAC). But they are proceeding cautiously, aware of the fragile political and economic context of their new partner.

Subscribers only Business

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana, Namibia
Diamonds link South African showbiz star and Botwsana business mogul

Hasina Essack Ferris and Dalton Ashikoto, co-founders of Ruri Diamonds. © Interafricaid/Dalton Ashikoto/Facebook

Ruri Diamonds is the result of an unlikely alliance between Botswana's business community and South African showbiz. The company's creation is further proof of the dynamism of the diamond sector in Gaborone, which is attracting investors from all over the world.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Morocco
Mohammed VI's holding company Al Mada dishes out lavish dividends

King Mohammed VI of Morocco. © Blondet Eliot/Abaca Press/Reuters

Despite sharply falling results, the royal family's holding company plans to pay its shareholders a record dividend to catch up the very modest restraint shown the year before at the height of the Covid-19 crisis.

Subscribers only Business

Tunisia
Concerned European Parliament to send its Human Rights Committee to Tunis

Belgian MEP Maria Arena. © Maria Arena/Twitter

A delegation of MEPs will visit Tunis to monitor human rights in the country and assess the political situation. The visit was prompted by the critical report of a previous delegation to the EU Foreign Affairs Committee.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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