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Spotlight | Somalia
Jubaland keen to de-escalate with Mogadishu after Ras Kamboni battle

Sheikh Ahmed Madobe in Kismaayo, South Somalia, in 2012. © Tobin Jones/Alamy

Jubaland gained the upper hand over national forces in a short bout of fighting two weeks ago. It hopes to capitalise on its strong position to engage in dialogue with the federal government. The easing of tensions with Ethiopia thanks to Turkish mediation may also prove helpful in local negotiations.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Central Africa

DRC
French court finds in favour of Traweco in dispute with Kinshasa

The ruling opens the way to enforcing a judgement originally handed down by a Kinshasa court in 2009 ordering the DRC authorities to pay the Congolese-registered company $3.5m.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa

Senegal
Diomaye and Sonko differ over Air Sénégal solution

The Senegalese president and his prime minister do not see eye to eye over how to handle the national airline's uncertain future, especially when it comes to pouring extra funds into the company.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Ghana
Cocoa sector on tenterhooks after John Dramani Mahama's election victory

John Dramani Mahama casts his ballot at a polling station in Bole in north-western Ghana on 7 December 2024. © Nipah Dennis/AFP

The president and his National Democratic Congress party will shortly have to appoint a new management team at Cocobod, the cocoa sector's regulatory body. So far, they have been vague about their plans for this key economic sector, which is in the grip of a serious crisis.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Senate seeks control of county spending

Kenya's two houses of parliament are examining separate bills that would etch in stone the Senate's oversight of county administrations, but a rivalry between the two institutions is complicating their road to legislation.

Subscribers only Politics

Kenya
Kenyan flower industry struggles with falling production and tax adjustments

A worker packages flowers at Wildfire Flowers on 12 February 2019 in Naivasha, Kenya. © Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images via AFP

Kenya's major flower producers have lost some of their tax benefits since William Ruto came to power in 2022. A situation that is taking its toll on this key sector, which employs more than 150,000 people.

Subscribers only Business

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Gazprom-backed Serbian partner puts Luanda in a bind over Block 3/05

The announcement that Serbian state company Naftna Industrija Srbij, 56.15%-owned by Russia's Gazprom, will soon face US sanctions has caused a stir as far away as Angola.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Tunisia
Paris offers political asylum to Tunisian opposition leaders

Since the 2021 coup in Tunis, France has seen an influx of Tunisian political leaders seeking refuge, some of whom are facing legal action in their homeland.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Morocco
Princess Lalla Meryem's big plans in the berries business

Lalla Meryem visits a school in Rabat on 29 October 2024 © Jeanne Accorsini/POOL/AFP

Mohammed VI's eldest sister has recently launched three farming companies and seems determined to carve out a place for herself in Morocco's lucrative berries business.

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