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Spotlight | Morocco
Rabat seeks to boost military-industrial complex

Joint US military exercise African Lion with members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, in the Tan-Tan region, in May 2024. © Fadel Senna/AFP

Following Mohammed VI's directives aimed at strengthening the kingdom's military sovereignty, Morocco is pulling out all the stops to encourage defence firms to set up operations on its soil. Medium-sized manufacturers are being given priority.

Subscribers only Defence, Business, Diplomacy

The Continent

Africa
The chairperson of the AU commission appoints his ambassadors

African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf in Rome, 20 June 2025. © Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

The game of musical chairs among AU diplomatic representatives is about to lead to numerous changes in key capitals for the panafrican organisation led by Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Gabon
Gunvor delays completing financing for GOC's purchase of Tullow's oil assets

The Geneva-based trader is to lend the crucial funds needed for the takeover of Tullow Oil by Gabon's state oil company. But the financial arrangements and bureaucracy in Libreville are slowing down the deal's official announcement.

Subscribers only Energy

Cameroon
New Franco-Cameroonian cooperation mission on the appropriation of criminal assets

At the beginning of July, civil servants from the Cameroonian national debt collection body (SRC), spent a week in Paris for a confidential training session with the SRC's French equivalent.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Niger
Niamey paying the price for UN cuts

As the United Nations grapples with a financial crisis, it is about to cut a good proportion of its staff in Niger, which risks exacerbating a number of problems in the country.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Nigeria
Abuja courted by Western light weapons suppliers

Eager to turn their backs on imports of Russian military equipment, the Nigerian authorities are in the process of creating a market that could particularly benefit US arms manufacturers.

Subscribers only Defence

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
Influential yet controversial, speaker Anita Among's future at NRM is at stake

Ugandan Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among in Kampala in March 2023. © Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters

Aspiring to become the ruling party's third-ranking member, the parliament speaker has acquired considerable influence over MPs. But her rise and wealth are a source of displeasure within her political family and the head of state's clan.

Free access Politics

Ethiopia
Lithium from the Kenticha mine coveted once again

The potentially lithium- and tantalum-rich site has been the subject of two close bids in recent months. RWG Lithium and Arena Investors are neck and neck for this permit, at the heart of a dispute between the former partner and the Ethiopian authorities.

Subscribers only Mining

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Although dormant, Air Madagascar discreetly appoints new chairman

Air Madagascar has quietly appointed a new chairman of the board, former minister Joël Randriamandranto.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

North Africa

Libya
Osama al-Juwaili tightens the noose around GUN forces

Osama al-Juwaili's taking of Ghadames is increasing the pressure on the forces affiliated to GUN Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah. Movements of hostile militias have intensified over recent days.

Subscribers only Energy

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