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Spotlight | DRC
Cloak and daggers in the highest echelons of the Congolese state

President Tshisekedi's strategic adviser Vidiye Tshimanga has been secretly caught on film meeting two fake investors on several occasions. Parts of these recordings have been made public and they cast an unflattering light on the practices, and also the tensions, within the president's office.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

DRC
Swiss shipping company causes ripples with launch of Matadi port project

Emirati port operator DP World is disgruntled by its Swiss rival MSC's move to renovate the Matadi river port in the DRC. The government is hoping the two companies can share the site peacefully.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

DRC
UN, Houston and Washington on Tshisekedi's US agenda

Expected next week in New York for the annual United [...]

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

West Africa

Inner circles | Senegal
Macky Sall banks on DRN intelligence agency to keep 'terrorists' at bay

Senegalese president Macky Sall. © Romain Gaillard/Pool/Abacapress.com/Reuters

As jihadist groups intensify their push towards the countries of the Gulf of Guinea, the Senegalese president is banking on the DRN intelligence agency to contain the threat. The DRN, which was caught off guard by major riots last year, is also expected to anticipate any unrest in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.

Subscribers only Defence

France, Ivory Coast
Braun-Pivet invites Bictogo to Palais Bourbon

The speaker of the Ivorian parliament, Adama Bictogo, is to [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

France, Kenya
Top French auditor helps Nairobi tackle corruption

France's Cour des comptes is helping its Kenyan counterpart, the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) to fight corruption, at least until the end of 2022. #Kenya

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana, Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa befriends Masisi after falling out with ANC

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi (left) and his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2018. © Aaron Ufumeli/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The president, who has been on the receiving end of recent tensions between Zimbabwe and South Africa, has bent over backwards to put on a brave face for ZANU-PF leaders in Harare. A rapprochement between Harare and Botswana in the face of a South African feud that is likely to endure.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria
Brown Rudnick recruits African energy specialist James Douglass

The law firm has brought in a specialist in financing and energy contracts with ready access to a flourishing network across West and Southern Africa.

Subscribers only Energy

South Africa
AAD arms expo dominated by Turkish, Chinese and Russian suppliers

The 2022 Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD) expo, slated for 21-25 September at Waterkloof airbase on the outskirts of Pretoria, will host a strong showing of Turkish firms.

Subscribers only Defence

North Africa

Libya
Al-Thani back at centre of Libyan negotiations

Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. © Omer Messinger/EPA/MaxPPP

At the urging of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the emir of Qatar is once again trying to facilitate reconciliation in Libya. He has proposed a power-sharing arrangement between Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba and the speaker of the eastern parliament Aguila Salah Issa, but the latter has yet to be convinced.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Libya, United Nations
Secret Dabaiba letter sought to block Bathily nomination

The Libyan prime minister tried to prevent the Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily from being appointed right up until the last minute. On 1 September, he addressed a letter to the Security Council in which he stressed his "reservations" about the appointment.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Algeria, European Union
Algeria and EU put final touches to revised accord

After nine months of negotiations, the European Union and Algieria late last month finalised a revised version of their association agreement covering the period 2021-2027

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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