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Spotlight | African Union, Algeria, Morocco
Algiers and Rabat battle for 2024 African Union presidency

Algeria's president Abdelmadjid Tebboune (left) and King Mohammed VI of Morocco © Blondet Eliot/ABACA via Reuters Connect / Moroccan Royal Palace/AFP

A few weeks before the pan-African organisation's next conference, which marks the start of the Comoros presidency, rivalry is intensifying between the two north African heavyweights vying for the AU presidency in 2024.

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Central Africa

DRC
Kinshasa blocks Sicomines imports to force contract review

The state auditor is stepping up pressure on the miner owned by China and DRC in the hope of forcing the initial 2008 deal between Kinshasa and Beijing to be renegotiated.

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Cameroon
Intelligence agents hunt author of parliamentary poison-pen letters

A series of anonymous letters purportedly signed by Cameroon's parliamentary speaker have sought to settle scores with several ruling party figures from the Far North region. Investigators recently questioned the speaker's top aide about these poison-pen letters.

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Gabon
Businessman Noureddin Bongo sets up new London investment firm

As Gabon's political classes gear up for this summer's elections, the ex-coordinator of presidential affairs Noureddin Bongo is quietly tending to his business affairs in London, where he has set up the firm Loup LTD to invest in the tech sector.

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West Africa

Ivory Coast
Ivorian employers' association boss Ahmed Cissé selects his team

To assist him throughout his term at the helm of the CGECI, the businessman has handpicked three figures with close connections to the government.

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Senegal
EU immigration agency Frontex still not deployed in Dakar

In February 2022, the European Union (EU) proposed establishing its border control agency, Frontex, in Dakar. A year later, however, negotiations have still not got under way.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Doha looks to facilitate return of Darfur militia from Libya

A member of the Sudan Liberation Movement-MM. © Mahmoud Hjaj / Anadolu Agency via AFP

Qatar is considering the possibility of financing the implementation of any agreement reached with Darfur militias based in Libya, thereby signalling its desire to once again become a player in Sudan.

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Asia, Kenya, Middle East
Top tea consortium finds new outlets in Middle East and Asia

The KTDA tea producers' consortium is trying to adapt to the woes of its dollar-starved customers by using other intermediaries. Kenyan trader Cup of Joe is emerging as a key partner in Dubai to reach Middle Eastern markets.

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Southern Africa and islands

Southern Africa
US vanilla importers battle for lower minimum price

The new US ambassador to Antananarivo has made herself the spokesperson in Madagascar for her country's vanilla importers, who view the obligatory minimum price for the spice as much too high and have boycotted the sector in protest.

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Botswana
Masisi picks ex-ICC judge to smooth relations with Pretoria

Bostwana's President Masisi has picked former ICC judge Sanji Monageng to become the next High Commissioner to South Africa in the hope she will smooth relations with Pretoria and help enforce the arrest warrant issued against his predecessor Ian Khama.

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North Africa

Egypt, France
French senate to help train Sisi's reformed upper house

The president of the French senate, Gérard Larcher. © Adrien Fillon / NurPhoto via AFP

The senates of France and Egypt have begun designing a training programme as the Egyptian upper house, which began sitting again in 2020 after many years of interruption, seeks to modernise.

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