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In Focus | Angola, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe
Sanctions-hit Alrosa's woes impact on continent's diamond producers

Angolan President Joao Lourenco (C) watches as Endiama CEO Jose Manuel Augusto Ganga Junior (L) shakes hands with Alrosa CEO Sergei Ivanov (R), in the Kremlin in Moscow, 4 April 2019. © Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool

The West's sanctions on the Russian mining colossus Alrosa, the world's largest diamond producer, are taking a huge toll on Angola, its main partner. That has left the field open for the world's second largest diamond producer, Botswana, to charge ahead.

Subscribers only Mining

The Continent

Africa
Avisa Partners launches new think-tank focusing on peace and security in Africa

Economic intelligence group Avisa Partners is putting the finishing touches to the creation of the think-tank GIPSA, which aims to bring together experts on security issues. After buying 35°Nord agency in 2021, the project should further strengthen its footprint on the African continent.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

Congo
Brazzaville wins a battle in protracted Trump Tower war

Trump Tower in New York, USA. © Justin Lane/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Lawyers for Congo creditor Mohsen Hojeij have spent years trying to seize an apartment in the New York skyscraper. But the city's district court delivered an adverse ruling earlier this month.

Subscribers only Business

Chad
Kaka finally obtains draft timetable for peace talks after pressuring Qatar

The President of the Chadian CNT, Mahamat Idriss Déby received the delegation from the Emir of Qatar on 16 February 2022. © Mahamat Idriss Déby/Twitter

More than two months after preliminary peace talks opened in Doha, with Qatar's help, N'Djamena has finally managed to obtain a date for the end of discussions with the rebel groups, and hopes that this will lead to an agreement.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Africa, France
Edouard Philippe's Horizons movement sets up African support network

Former French PM Edouard Philippe. © ulien Mattia/Le Pictorium/Cover Images/Reuters

Horizons, the political movement set up by President Emmanuel Macron's former PM last October, has appointed a number of representatives in Africa and is campaigning for the French overseas vote in France's June parliamentary elections.

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Mauritania
Grand Tortue: Maurilog, MCE and Bolloré impatiently await results of huge BP logistics contract

The British major was scheduled to award one of its largest logistics contracts for Grand Tortue in April but has now delayed it. Those in the running include the biggest names in logistics in Mauritania.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Ruto gambles on reversing Kenyatta reforms to win presidency

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto. © William Ruto/Twitter

The vice-president, at daggers drawn with his former ally, is defying the outgoing head of state by threatening to reverse some of his flagship measures. His bravado has divided his own campaign team.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics

Djibouti
Boïté in the running to be head of French Forces

The current deputy director general of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, General Laurent Boïté, is being considered for the position of head of the French Forces in Djibouti (FFDj). He would replace General Stéphane Dupont.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Eritrea, European Union
Italian diplomat to become EU ambassador to Asmara

Currently a European External Action Service (EEAS) official, where he works in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) department, Italian diplomat Gianluca Grippa is soon to be appointed as the EU ambassador to Eritrea.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Eramet taking close look at mining potential

The French mining group Eramet has held talks with the Luanda authorities to look at the potential of the Angolan subsoil. President Lourenço is hoping that the major players in the sector will start to diversify the minerals being mined, a key element of his mandate.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
Aguila Saleh Issa taking great strides to save Bashagha

The Speaker of the House of Representatives in Tobruk, Aguila Saleh Issa. © Abdullah Doma/AFP

The speaker of the East Libyan House of Representatives, beacon of Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha's political alliance, hopes to travel to Turkey soon and is in talks with the chairman of the High Council of State, who changed political colours in February.

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Algeria, France, Tunisia
France to expel illegal migrants on Corsica Linea ferries

France's interior ministry is to use ferries to send Algerian and Tunisian illegal immigrants back to their home countries. Secure cabins will be installed on the ships and an escort will be present during the journey.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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