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Spotlight | Nigeria
Bola Tinubu continues to weigh up options for his Lagos governorship candidate

The opposition favourite, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, during the 2023 gubernatorial election in Lagos. © Temilade Adelaja / Reuters

There is still a long way to go before the 2027 general elections, when several governorships will be up for grabs. A few names are already in the running for that of Lagos State, one of the president's strongholds, and it's the head of state himself who'll decide.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

DRC
The delicate plan to digitise historical Congolese geological archives

Belgian mining company Union Minière du Haut Katanga extracted copper during colonisation, from 1908 to 1960. © Anonyme / Domaine public

American firm KoBold Metals' desire to scan the Congolese geological archives is causing a certain amount of embarrassment in Belgium, which holds a large collection inherited from the colonial era. A project for the digitisation of said archives for research purposes backed by EU funding is already underway.

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West Africa

Ghana
John Dramani Mahama woos London and Brussels in hope of reviving Accra Initiative

The Ghanian president's advisers have approached representatives of the EU and the UK to sound them out on their plans to revive the West African regional security organisation. But the results of this approach are still pending.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Diplomatic partners concerned about future projects following Ruto's new rules

The government has asked financial backers to support its ventures. Yet the executive's cash flow issues and poor communication have raised concerns among foreign partners that there may be obstacles ahead.

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Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
Royal relics restitution ceremony to take place in Paris

After being postponed in April, the ceremony for the restitution of Saklava King Toera's sacred remains will in the end take place in the French capital, at the Ministry of Culture, with Rachida Dati and Volamiranty Donna Mara in attendance.

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North Africa

Algeria
Authorities crack down on former presidential candidate Saïda Neghza's company

Saïda Neghza, then president of Algeria's leading employers' organisation, CGEA, in Algiers in 2022. © Billel Bensalem / APP / Maxppp

Sentenced in July to four years in prison, the former head of the employers' association CGEA now sees the activities of her group Soralcof in Algeria severely hampered by the authorities.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Egypt
Sovereign Fund of Egypt boss among women under the spotlight in Paris

The Paris Institut du Monde Arabe is giving pride of place to several prominent women from the Arab world on 14 October. Among them, Noha Khalil, who heads the Sovereign Fund of Egypt.

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