Kosmos Energy is pulling out all the stops to get the government to approve its planned multi-million dollar acquisition of the Ghanaian assets of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy).
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China's supremacy in Congolese mining has recently been challenged by both the government in Kinshasa and by Washington's renewed influence in the DRC. Beijing, in a bid to counteract this trend, has overhauled its previous communications strategy to focus on transparency and human rights.
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Mining Since September, France has refused to grant visas to a dozen Central African Republic officials in a sign of the tense relations between the two countries. The situation is unlikely to improve with several investigations on the horizon.
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Diplomacy The New York-based debt recovery firm FG Hemisphere Associates is resuming its legal crusade to make the DRC pay a debt accumulated from amounts owed thirty years ago.
Between now and 2025, the surplus stock of the French army will increasingly be channelled towards the coastal states in the Gulf of Guinea, which are contending with the spread of armed groups from the Sahel.
Breaking news published on 23/09/21, 12.30 p.m - Increasingly strained relations between the director of the ruling RHDP party Adama Bictogo and Prime Minister Patrick Achi have led Alassane Ouattara to create a new committee, aimed at bringing the party into line.
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The president and his prime minister have been at each other's throats for weeks and so far all attempts at mediation have failed.
Since he became president in 2018, Cyril Ramaphosa has little by little turned key embassy postings into consolation prizes for former Zuma ministers he wants to keep out of government. This has exasperated career diplomats, who are concerned that top diplomatic posts are going to politicians without experience on the international stage.
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Diplomacy His son and his former private secretary may be at the heart of the high-profile hidden loans trial that opened in Maputo in August, but former president Armando Guebuza is continuing to expand his business interests through Intelec Holdings.
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Business After a slow start to operations at the exchange, Zimbabwe is now pushing hard to get the cornerstone of its new financial centre off the ground, with a helping hand from Dubai.
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Politics This weekend the Mozambican armed forces are preparing to take a group of international journalists to Cabo Delgado, where an Islamist insurrection has been simmering since 2017.
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The Tunisian firm Impact and two French companies are bidding for the contract to take care of communications for the next summit of the organisation of French-speaking nations. However, the budget is tight, as are the deadlines.
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Business The 400-MW solar farm project, backed by the Masen sustainable energy agency, is at the heart of a muted row between the agency and the energy ministry. The situation will have to be resolved quickly by the new prime minister Aziz Akhannouch, who is himself involved via his company Green of Africa.
Belkhir El Farouk, the new commander of Morocco's Royal Armed Forces, will continue in his role as commander of the southern zone, where he has met with success. The general is also a key figure in defence cooperation with Washington.
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