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In Focus | Africa, UAE
Islamic bank IIB recycles top Banco Espirito Santo execs in Africa

João Poppe and César Ferreira (first and second from left) at the signing of a MoU between Cape Verde and IIB in 2019. © IIB

Having become the leading private lender in Cape Verde, the Bahraini bank IIB owes its prominence in large part to a small handful of financiers with ties to the defunct Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Central Africa

Gabon, Morocco
Ten years in the making - a palm oasis palace for the Bongos in Marrakesh

Works on the Bongo family's palace in Marrakesh in 2014, which should be finished in a few months. © Atelier KLP

Constructed on land donated by the Moroccan king Mohammed VI, a close friend of Ali Bongo, the palace of the Gabonese presidential family set in the palm grove of Marrakesh has taken ten years to complete and has been worked on by some of the most sought-after service providers in the kingdom.

Subscribers only Politics

Congo
Oil minister Tchicaya may stymie Zenith Energy's hopes at Tilapia

The expiry of the Tilapia licence is likely to spell bad news for the businessman Andrea Cattaneo, who thought that he had this producing oil field in the bag.

Subscribers only Energy

DRC
Germany's GIZ determined to protect local operators as mines go digital

In conjunction with the IGF, the German development agency GIZ is set to analyse the opportunities and risks associated with the digitalisation of the mining subcontracting sector in the DRC.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Nigeria
The three guises of Fidelis Oditah, ENI, NNPC and Lekoil's favourite lawyer

Nigerian lawyer and businessman Fidelis Oditah. © Fidelis Oditah & Co

The businessman, consultant and lawyer Fidelis Oditah has been involved in most of the major oil-related court cases in Nigeria over the last decade.

Subscribers only Energy

Africa, France
Who is Jean-Yves Le Drian's new Mr Africa?

Arnaud Suquet (left) visiting consul general of France in Cape Town (South Africa) Laurent Amar, in 2019. © French general consulate in Cape Town

Le Drian's new advisor on Africa Arnaud Suquet, 43, whose CV includes stints at the oil major Total, the French embassies in Khartoum and Addis Ababa and at the EU's Africa division, has years of experience on the African continent.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Benin, Burkina Faso
Paris to equip west African air forces with surveillance aircraft to counter jihadist incursions

Tetras CS built by Humbert Aviation. This type of light plane will be used for ISR missions by Benin and Burkina Faso. © Humbert Aviation

By boosting the aerial surveillance capacities of Benin and Burkina Faso, Paris is hoping to increase its chances of countering a potential spread of Islamist operations to the border zone between the two countries and to the border region between Benin and Niger.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
UMT, the new weapon in the Kenyatta clan's electoral arsenal?

With the encouragement of health secretary Mutahi Kagwe, the Kikuyu Council of Elders is setting up a party to champion the constitutional referendum of Kenyatta and Odinga.

Subscribers only Politics

North Africa

Africa, Morocco
Guillaume Chaban-Delmas quits Boury Tallon for African lobbyist MGH Partners

Until recently the director of consultancy at the French institutional relations advisor Boury, Tallon & associés, Guillaume Chaban-Delmas this month became a founding partner of the lobbying firm MGH Partners.

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