The Ethiopian government has made the pharmaceuticals sector one of its priorities and introduced financial incentives to lure foreign investors into the country, a bait that so far has only lured Asian groups.
Following President Macron's announcement on 10 June of France's plans to end Operation Barkhane, the French presidency is trying to mobilise its partners regarding the situation in the Sahel. French diplomats have begun a major operation to persuade the European Union, the UN and the African Union to get more involved in the region, with a Sahel Coalition summit coming up in July and France due to take the chair of the UN Security Council on 1 July.
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Diplomacy In the wake of a contract between Israel Shipyards and Abidjan for two patrol boats, French Raidco Marine has surfed on its success. All with the help of two shrewd brokers.
From Nouakchott to Djibouti and Johannesburg, more and more private firms are being drawn to the prospect of producing green hydrogen.
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Energy The late Ivorian prime minister, who used a wide array of financial advisors and asset managers to manage his personal wealth, discreetly helped a number of publicity-shy African VIPs with special trust arrangements. Since his death, these personnalities have been busy trying to recover the funds entrusted to the politician-businessman.
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Business The Sweden-based businessman Louis Claude Norland Suzor, the boss of Nykomb Synergetics Development AB and SBEC Systems, is contending with a rebellion by his co-shareholders in the 125 MW Sendou coal-fired power plant south of Dakar.
Less than three months after a high-ranking delegation from the Indo-Singaporean agribusiness giant Olam visited Rwanda, the chairman and CEO of its Singaporean rival Wilmar, Kuok Khoon Hong, met with the Rwandan president Paul Kagame on 21 June.
Based in Western Australia, Botswanan mining sector veterans have set up three investment funds in their native country to operate as a bridge between the Perth and Gaborone mining communities.
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The company that manages the government's fleet of planes has brought home the late Muammar Gaddafi's VIP A340 at last. But its CEO, Abderrahman Shawish, has been put out of a job and the Audit Bureau is breathing down its neck over an irregular sale of Antonov-124 engines.
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Business Chinese giant Citic, shortlisted by Sonatrach in 2018 but then dropped, is scrambling to get back into its good books. The Algerian state-owned firm is looking for a new partner for a massive project to exploit the country's phosphate reserves, and Citic wants to be the chosen one.
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Mining President Kais Saied is at loggerheads with Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi over possibly again postponing the 50th anniversary summit of the French-speaking nations club. Tunisia is far from ready to host the event even if it does decide to hold it as planned in November.
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Diplomacy The fortunes of the Turkish construction firm Dekinsan are looking a little rosier after it bagged contracts worth 3 billion dinars (€19m) in the course of June.
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