The main foreign investors in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa are alarmed by the regional body's foreign exchange regulations, considering them to be too tough. But despite intense lobbying, a relaxation of the rules looks unlikely, the central bank having set itself ambitious objectives for foreign currency reserves.
The Chadian president Mahamat Idriss Déby, aka Kaka, will pay an official visit to his Central African counterpart Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Bangui this spring to signal the reconciliation between the two countries.
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Diplomacy Several Addax Petroleum and Sino Gabon former temporary workers have doubled down on their fight against Sinopec's two subsidiaries.
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In a series of letters seen by Africa Intelligence, the ECOWAS Court of Justice and Guinean state lawyers go head-to-head over the detention of three senior figures who served under Alpha Condé. Among them is former prime minister Fofana, whose corruption trial is to begin on 20 March in Conakry.
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Politics Alassane Ouattara has opted to extend Veolia's contract to run the Adzopé drinking water plant in the La Mé region of Ivory Coast.
Following intense negotiations, the coveted chairmanship of a new network of think tanks to support the AU peace and security commissioner Bankole Adeoye has been awarded to a Cairo-based policy institute close to the Egyptian foreign ministry.
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Diplomacy The Tanzanian army is participating in Dodoma's geopolitical realignment, diversifying its suppliers by turning away from China and looking to the Middle East and the West, as well as stepping up deployments in African trouble spots.
Addis Ababa wants its stock exchange: The Ethiopian administration is seeking external consultants to assist the newly established Ethiopian Capital Market Authority, tasked with creating a regulatory framework for the country's future stock market.
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Both the US subsidiary of Angola's state oil company Sonangol and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) are identified as structures to which the Angolan Air Force (AAF) has entrusted part of its assets.
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The goal of the UNSMIL boss to create a high-level panel for the running of Libyan elections in 2023 is facing interference on several fronts, with Egypt the project's most fervent critic.
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Diplomacy In the utmost secrecy, the heads of France's DGSE and Algeria's DGDSE met in Berlin in mid-February, scarcely a week after an earlier meeting was cancelled amid the Amira Bouraoui affair.
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