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Spotlight | Africa
BP set to run down its African operations little by little

The British oil major is looking to drastically reduce its investment in field development and exploration in Africa. Here are our revelations.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

DRC
Chinese business bridge-builder in Congo pulls out of Manono lithium

Despite the proven potential of the lithium project in Manono, former-president Joseph Kabila's brother's stronghold, Simon Cong sold his shares. The influential Chinese businessman and long-time investor in the project did so as an ownership dispute over the site is pending.

Subscribers only Mining

Gabon
Internal debt: Ernst & Young pits its calculations against those of PwC

Among the members of the task force which has been auditing Gabon's domestic debt since June are consultants from Ernst & Young (EY). The last assessment of the Gabonese state's domestic debt was carried out, however, by EY's competitor PwC

Subscribers only Business

DRC
$619m arbitration: deputy justice minister Bernard Takahishe Ngumbi gives Dig Oil a helping hand

La RDC n'a pas répondu aux convocations du tribunal du District of Columbia dans le cadre d'un conflit à plus de 619 millions de dollars qui l'oppose à la société sud-africaine Dig Oil.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Ivory Coast
RHDP bigwig Youssouf Soumahoro sparks ire with weights and measures monopoly

Côte d'Ivoire Métrologie, the company of former minister Youssouf Soumahoro which has a monopoly on weights and measures throughout the country, has outraged farmers and the business community by sending its prices through the roof.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

South Sudan
Eastern European service providers Air Taurus and UTair to boost UNMISS air fleet

Ukrainian and Russian operators will provide the UN mission stationed in South Sudan with transport helicopters.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Kenya
Mutua governor tries to put international airport dream into action

Alfred Mutua, Governor of Machakos County. © Baz Ratner/Reuters

Governor Alfred Mutua is defying his critics by making progress on his international airport project in Machakos. He is now on the hunt for an engineering firm to conduct feasibility and environmental and social impact studies of the project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics

Uganda
Museveni wants to convince European tourists to fly with Uganda Airlines

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni hopes to attract European tourists. © Daniel Irungu/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

After enacting the reopening of the Entebbe international airport on 1 October, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is now touting its merits to overseas tourists - and travel agents. A delegation of European tour operations should be arriving in Kampala in November.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Luísa Diogo is ace up Nyusi's sleeve to negotiate with Paris Club

Former Prime Minister of Mozambique Luísa Diogo. © Alessandro della Bella/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Former prime minister Luísa Diogo, who assumed a low profile after Nyusi became president, may not have figured in the official photos but she was the one who negotiated Mozambique's inclusion in the G20 public debt repayment moratorium.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy

North Africa

Libya
San Marino Executive Aviation, the new pillar of Istanbul-Misrata airlift

The small private Turkish airliner domiciled in Saint-Marin is picking up cargo traffic to Libya.

Subscribers only Business

France, Kuwait, Libya
Al Kharafi affair: Paris opposes unfreezing of Libyan Investment Authority fund's French assets

The Fnac des Ternes building is part of the property concerned by the dispute. © Olivier Boitet/PhotoPQR/Le Parisien/MaxPPP

The Directorate General of the French Treasury has refused to release the assets of the Libyan sovereign wealth fund claimed by the Kuwaiti group in its €1bn dispute with Libya. These assets include the Fnac building in Paris' Ternes district, and sums held with Société Générale.

Free access Diplomacy

Morocco
PwC wins strategic audit of Ministry of National Territory

Morocco has launched an audit into yet another one of [...]

Subscribers only Business

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