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Spotlight | Libya
Bachagha counting on powerful allies to help him evict Dabaiba

Former Libyan interior minister Fathi Bachagha was elected prime minister on 10 February 2022 by the Eastern House of Representatives. Eastern House of Representatives. © Hazem Ahmed/Reuters

Former interior minister Fathi Bachagha, whom the eastern House of Representatives elected as prime minister earlier this month, should find solid support in Tripoli to ensure the resignation of the incumbent Abdelhamid Dabaiba. Failing that, Libya could again end up with two rival executives.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

Cameroon
New light shed on Fotso empire as heirs fight on

After operating without releasing any figures for the past three years, the FOV real estate company has had to lift the veil on its accounts for 2020, the year its founder Victor Fotso died. These reveal a raft of transactions that took place around the time of the Cameroonian billionaire's death and which continue to fuel a bitter battle between his heirs.

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Central African Republic
Touadéra eager to meet with Macron

French president Emmanuel Macron and his Central African counterpart Faustin Archange Touadéra during their last meeting in September 2019. © Aurélien Morissard/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

Central African president Faustin Archange Touadéra has been making repeated appeals to Paris in recent days with a view to meeting with Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the European Union-African Union summit. For the moment, the French government is politely stalling for time.

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DRC, Turkey
Erdogan on official visit to Kinshasa

The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to pay an official visit to Kinshasa from 20 to 22 February.

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West Africa

Equatorial Guinea
Trident bids again for ExxonMobil's Zafiro as Savannah lies in wait

Equatorial Guinea's largest oilfield, Zafiro, has been on sale for nearly three years and continues to attract the attention of junior players, despite some of these being repeatedly rejected in Malabo.

Free access Energy

Sahel
France figures out how to get its soldiers safely out of Mali

The Niamey base in Niger could become the nerve centre of French operations. © Frédéric Speich/La Provence/PhotoPQR/MaxPPP

The withdrawal of French troops from Mali presents a major logistical challenge, with an increased risk of attacks by Islamic militants. The military has been examining various scenarios over the past few weeks.

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Sahel
French army's Thales mini-drones rack up technical setbacks

A Spy'Ranger drone from Thales. © Thales

The French military's Spy'Ranger drones, which have been deployed in Mali as part of Operation Barkhane, have encountered a series of technical problems. The army has not ruled out replacing them with UAVs from other suppliers.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Moussa Faki given rough political ride on Khartoum visit

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki. © African Union Commission

A missive signed by 35 prominent Sudanese figures and submitted to the African Union Commission chair has criticised the pan-African organisation for being too indulgent towards the military regime in Khartoum.

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Tanzania
Dodoma hopes to talk its way out of mining arbitrations

Threatened with ICSID proceedings over its unilateral withdrawal of three mining companies' licences, Tanzania is considering holding talks to resolve the disputes amicably.

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Sudan
Petronas chooses its arbitrator in Sudan action

The arbitration proceedings brought by Petronas against Sudan before the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) have taken a small step forward.

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Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Chinese shareholders seek to install ex-finance minister at helm of MC Mining

In early February, a rising player in South Africa's cash-strapped coal industry, Australia's MC Mining, had to contend with a boardroom drama.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Morocco
Mohammed VI and Olaf Scholz mend fences on the fly

King Mohammed VI of Morocco, German chancellor Olaf Scholz. © Azzouz Boukallouch/DNphotography/Abacapress.com/Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

After Rabat failed to react to his selection a year ago as Germany's ambassador to Morocco, an appointment designed to resolve a diplomatic crisis, Thomas Zahneisen was reassigned to a different posting. But now he's due to go to the kingdom after all and to organise the king's visit to Berlin.

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Tunisia
Kais Saied in Brussels to resume talks with EU partners

Tunisian president Kais Saied is leaving the country for the first time in several months to attend the EU-AU summit. The political and economic situation in Tunisia is deteriorating and he is keen to exit the diplomatic isolation which his coup of 25 July last year has placed him in.

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