President Félix Tshisekedi's overreaction to Belarusian businessman Alexander Zingman's visit to the country last month stems from an earlier, largely unreported, episode: three trips to Kinshasa made by Yossi Cohen, head of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad.
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A salary row dating back several years involving two former coaches of the national team, Clarence Seedorf and Patrick Kluivert, could end up being extremely costly for the Cameroonian Football Federation.
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Business Just after former head of state Joseph Kabila pulled out of the ruling coalition, the country's chamber of mines is mulling whether to review one of his most significant achievements as president, the 2018 mining code, in order to pinpoint its strengths but also its weaknesses.
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Following on from President Gnassingbé's visit to Paris a few days ago, a sales delegation from Arquus went to Togo last week in the hope of interesting the government in some additional Bastions.
Despite his reelection, Patrice Talon's main opponent remains behind bars on vague suspicions of "financing terrorism". But he will have to reckon with Madougou's powerful supporters among whom are two of the region's sitting presidents as well as oligarch Mahamadou Bonkoungou and lawyer Antoine Vey, a former associate of French justice minister Dupond-Moretti.
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The Ugandan president is ramping up surveillance of the ADF to make sure Total does not experience the same plight as its facilities in Mozambique's troubled Cabo Delgado province.
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Energy The keen competition among Western capitals in recent months to become Khartoum's leading partner has entered a new phase following the appointment of a Sudan specialist to take charge of US diplomacy throughout Africa.
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Hardly had he arrived in Madagascar than the new Russian ambassador was jostling to advance Moscow's interests there despite the recent failures of Russian business diplomacy in the country.
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Diplomacy The Bretton Woods institution is under growing pressure to stop financing coal because of targets tied to the COP21 climate conference in Paris. In Southern Africa, where coal is abundant, anxiety is on the rise.
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Mining The French major says it has suspended the preliminary process of drilling a new well on its South African block to allow it to focus on two existing discoveries. But the move is actually aimed at stepping up pressure on Pretoria.
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Energy In mid-March, South Africa's central bank authorised German insurance giant R+V Versicherung AG (R-V) to ply its trade in the country.
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Western Sahara business expert Claude Fraissinet has offered to open a committee of Emmanuel Macron's party in Dakhla. He wants to run the office with Mirelle Malbos, owner of a tourism business with Mohammed Vi's cousin Princess Noufissa El Yacoubi.
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Diplomacy Mohamed Ali Al Darrat, the newly appointed head of the LFB, will remain Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba's special envoy to the United States, where he recently facilitated the signing of a new lobbying contract between Tripoli and Mercury Public Affairs.
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