As the strength of family patriarch Teodoro Obiang Nguema wanes, his wife Constancia is setting up the political mechanisms which will enable their son Teodorin to take his place as president.
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Engaged in extensive foreclosure operations in Paris, Lebanese entrepreneur Mohsen Hojeij, who is seeking to recover €1.2bn from Congo, is holding very hush-hush talks with the president's office.
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Norway's Aker Energy has succeeded in getting the Ghanaian government to agree to its conditions on the DWT-CTP block despite opposition from state-owned GNPC.
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Energy The subsidiary of the construction company Vinci, which was the only French firm to have responded to a tender call for several roadworks contracts in the greater Abidjan area, has more than held its own against rival Chinese giants who were also in the running.
The American rapper and businessman Akon is relying on his Kenyan partner Julius Mwale to help him launch his Akoin cryptocurrency in Mwale's very own Mwale Medical and Technology City and to organise subcontractors for him.
Under the guise of assisting residents of the Dankalia region, the team of Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh is conducting a thinly veiled PR campaign against the Isaias Afwerki regime. A first in more than twelve years.
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A familiar figure both on the stock market and the political scene in Gaborone, these days the financier Martin Makgatlhe is a key player in the country's affairs through his connections with the ruling BDP party and the clan of former president Masire.
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American fertiliser group Mosaic has reportedly brought in Brian Ballard, a lobbyist close to protectionist US president Donald Trump, and lawyer David Ross, who has links with the Republican Party, to defend its call for action against "subsidised" phosphate imports from Morocco's OCP and Russia's PhosAgro.
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Mining The two Turkish construction firms which have scooped vast contracts to build social housing had previously won numerous no-bid contracts when President Tebboune was housing minister.
The Moroccan air force has suspended its programme to modernise its fleet of fighter planes, which was negotiated last year with the Pentagon and US State Department, but the purchase of new aircraft still looks likely to go ahead.
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