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Spotlight | Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema uses Omar Bongo playbook in presidential election campaign

Gabonese transitional president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema in Beijing, September 2024. © Pool/Getty Images via AFP

Gabonese junta leader Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema looks set for a landslide victory in next month's presidential poll. To achieve this, he will rely mainly on the Gabonese Democratic Party and adopt some of the strategies used by former president Omar Bongo.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

Gabon
GOC deal sparks storm at Gunvor

Stéphane Degenne, co-director of Gunvor's oil trading business, has just retired early. Several inside sources claim that his departure is linked to a 2024 contract with Gabon Oil Co, which the company denies.

Subscribers only Energy

Central African Republic
Central African Freemasons secede from the Grande Loge du Congo

Up until now a "provincial" cell of the Grande Loge du Congo, the Central African Freemasons have met the conditions to become completely autonomous.

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West Africa

Senegal
The challenges facing Yuval Waks, Israel's new ambassador to Dakar

Newly arrived in Dakar, Israeli diplomat Yuval Waks will be trying to iron out the wrinkles in a bilateral relationship that has been strained since President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's election.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Guinea
Global Voice Group challenges US court ruling on Conakry dispute

Global Voice Group has come up against the US District Court for the District of Columbia's refusal to enforce an arbitration award made in the company's favour by Paris's International Chamber of Commerce in a territorial dispute with Guinea's Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Kenya Airways' financial difficulties hinder its privatisation

Kenya Airways' headquarters in Nairobi, 6 February 2024. © Tony Karumba/AFP

Kenya Airways is unable to pay its partners on time, prompting its guarantors to intervene. They are now turning to the Treasury, the airline's majority shareholder.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Uganda
The ICC rejigs judges in Joseph Kony case

Ahead of the confirmation of charges hearing against the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, the ICC is shuffling the composition of the tribunal in charge of handling the defence appeal.

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Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Demobilisation of TotalEnergies' subcontractors labour force on Mozambique LNG : true or false ?

The French oil company claims to not have requested any demobilisation at its Afungi site in northern Mozambique.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Morocco
Azura recruits headhunter Egon Zehnder

The French-Moroccan agricultural group is looking to recuit a chief financial officer and chief strategist to counter its recent setbacks with the European Union.

Subscribers only Business

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