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Spotlight | Nigeria
Tinubu picks Gilbert Chagoury for Lagos ports renovation project

Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury (centre) at a meeting with Emmanuel Macron and Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Paris, 28 November 2024. © Sarah Meyssonnier/AFP

The contract to revamp Lagos's ports has been awarded to ITB Nigeria, a company owned by the Lebanese-Nigerian. This close associate of President Tinubu is thus set to embark on another major new project in the African megalopolis.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Central Africa

Cameroon
Edéa-Kribi railway project could be back on track

Africa Global Logistics and Arise IIP are in talks to create a rail link between the port of Kribi and the mining town of Edéa. Yet it's a project that comes up time and time again but never comes to fruition.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining

Congo
World Cup qualification threatened as sports minister fails in talks with FIFA

The suspension of the Congolese Football Federation by football's world governing body is posing a huge risk to the country's qualification for 2026's men's World Cup. Talks have stalled over the issue of the federation's bank accounts.

Subscribers only Politics

DRC
Corneille Nangaa's brother takes refuge in Dubai

The Congolese senator for Haut-Uélé, Christophe Baseane Nangaa, has had to flee to Dubai. He claims to have been threatened because of his family ties with Corneille Nangaa, the leader of the Congo River Alliance.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Senegal
Former PM Amadou Ba to set up advisory firm for governments

Amadou Ba, former Senegalese PM, in Dakar, 25 March 2024. © Jérôme Favre/EPA/MaxPPP

The former premier plans to open his own company specialising in financial support for African countries, which could bring him into close contact with President Faye.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Tigray elites fight it out over EFFORT's financial resources

The Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray, once a pillar of the Ethiopian economy, was taken apart during the war. Leaders in the region are clawing at each other to get their hands on its resources, a battle in which the federal government could be a behind-the-scenes arbitrator.

Subscribers only Business

Rwanda
Businessman loses case against Rwandan state over decades-old military sales

A 30-year legal saga has ended after the East African Court of Justice rejected an appeal by François-Xavier Mironko against the Rwandan state over alleged unpaid bills for military gear he supplied.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Namibia
State oil company Namcor still overwhelmed by debt with Gunvor

Although the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia has managed to pay off a large part of its debt to Geneva-based Gunvor, several tens of millions of dollars still remain to be paid.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Morocco
Intense discussions between Veolia and Rabat over desalinated water price

Veolia CEO Estelle Brachlianoff in Paris, June 2022. © Éric Piermont/AFP

Heralded as one day being the continent's largest desalination plant, the station that Veolia is to build in the capital is still the subject of an ongoing debate between the French group and the Interior Ministry.

Subscribers only Energy

Egypt, Morocco
Negotiations to take place in Cairo to resolve Egypt-Morocco trade dispute

Morocco and Egypt will gather around the negotiation table in late March to resolve their disagreement over import duties.

Subscribers only Business

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