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In Focus | Equatorial Guinea, United States
The late financier Jeffrey Epstein's secret friendship with Teodorin Obiang

The Equatorial Guinean vice-president Teodorin Obiang Nguema, presumptive successor of his father as head of state. © Joédson Alves/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

A friend of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, the late American wealth manager, who was under investigation for sexual trafficking when he died in August 2019, also had regular dealings with Equatorial Guinean vice president Teodorin Obiang Nguema.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

Central Africa
Bongo and Obiang get BEAC to give in to oil firms

The regional bank has yet to impose the CFA franc on mining and oil firms, thanks to a fuss kicked up by a private sector backed by certain regional leaders.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Mali
Cannabis mogul Carl Esprey snaps up golden deal in Garalo

Carl Esprey, CEO of Contango and co-founder of Botanical Holdings. © carlesprey.com

Businessman Carl Esprey, a developer of medicinal cannabis crops in Lesotho and Portugal, has secured a deal to purchase a gold project in Mali just months after the coup d'état.

Subscribers only Mining

Burkina Faso
To talk or not to talk: dialogue with jihadists dominates presidential election

Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. © LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré insists he is firmly against talking to the armed groups active in the north of the country. His two main rivals in the presidential race have adopted a more nuanced stance.

Subscribers only Politics

France, Libya, Togo
France boosts Togo's counter-piracy with speedboats originally destined for Libya

One of the Rafale 1200 type interceptor boats, manufactured by Sillinger. © Ministère des affaires étrangères

Worsening security in the Gulf of Guinea has prompted France to beef up its support to Togo's navy with two Sillinger speedboats that were initially supposed to go to Libya.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Guinea
Beny Steinmetz and George Soros' Simandou sparring match gets technical

Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz and American billionaire philanthropist George Soros have both come out all guns blazing to have their interpretation of the law accepted in their court battle over Simandou, which restarted recently in the US.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
Laurent Gbagbo set to return to Ivory Coast after nine years in exile

The former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. © Peter Dejong/Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Just a few days after his re-election as president, Alassane Ouattara has agreed to grant Laurent Gbagbo a diplomatic passport, opening the way to the former president's return to Ivory Coast after an absence of nine years.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia
Why Abiy and Issayas back Farmajo's re-election bid

Addis Ababa and Asmara see Somalia's president as an ally in their fight against regionalism in the Horn.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Kenya
Last hurdles cleared ahead of Mwache dam construction

Kenyan authorities have identified several hundred individuals and businesses whose properties encroach on the site of the future Mwache dam in the southern Kwale county.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Somalia, United States
Janus takes arms against Covid-19 on behalf of US ambassador Yamamoto

Janus Global Operations, which provides security to the US embassy in Mogadishu, is breaking in to the Covid-19 prevention business.

Subscribers only Defence, Business, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Angola, Mozambique
Once the star of Total's Kaombo project, Heerema takes a hard fall

In the space of two years the Dutch oil services firm Heerema has sold off all its African assets, unable to weather the gloomy oil market and its divorce from TechnipFMC.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Algeria
Fast-growing biscuit manufacturer Sobco-Palmary asks Deloitte to help it find a new investor

The brothers Amrani and Reda Turki, who control the agri-food group, want to bring in a new investor to help them better compete with Kraft, Mondelez and Algerian champion BIMO.

Subscribers only Business

Morocco
Former state TV news chief Samira Sitaïl pops up at Spain's PR agency Marco de Comunicación

The former news director of the 2M channel, Samira Sitaïl, has joined the consulting, communication and lobbying company Marco de Comunicación. © 2M

Samira Sitaïl, the iconic news director of the public audiovisual group 2M from 2002 to January 2020, has been a senior consultant for Marco de Comunicacion, a leading Spanish public relations, communications, and institutional lobbying consultancy, for the past few weeks.

Subscribers only Business

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