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Spotlight | Senegal
Bassirou Diomaye Faye's diplomatic struggles continue

Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye in Libreville, Gabon, on 3 May 2025. © Nao Mukadi/AFP

When the Senegalese president failed at the last minute to secure the ECOWAS chair, taken instead by Sierra Leone's Julius Maada Bio, he made his anger clear to his West African counterparts. His unanticipated defeat adds to a series of diplomatic setbacks.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
Macron plans a major humanitarian conference

From left to right: Rwandan President Paul Kagame, French President Emmanuel Macron and DRC's President Felix Tshisekedi in New York, 21 September 2022. © Ludovic Marin/AFP

French diplomacy is working on holding a conference on 25 July to address the humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC. Emmanuel Macron hopes to invite Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi to the event, which is facing scepticism from the African Union.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central African Republic, Congo
Former adviser to ex-president Bozizé resurfaces in Brazzaville

Bertin Béa, former VP of Kwa na Kwa, is in Brazzaville looking for funds to prepare his return to Bangui, after several years in exile in France.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Senegal
From an ex-IMF boss to JP Morgan, Dakar looks to financiers to fill gap in cash resources

At a time when Senegal has urgent revenue issues, the government is working on raising funds at both a domestic and international level while also trying to obtain renewed support from the IMF.

Subscribers only Finance

Guinea
How the Chambre des Mines protects its members

Under Ismaël Diakité's leadership, the organisation protected its members from the cancellations of mining permits introduced in mid-May by the junta's head.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Latent conflict at the Ministry of Mines over the allocation of permits

As Kenya seeks to boost its mining revenues, attempts by the principal secretary of mines to control the granting of permits to mining operators are annoying his cabinet secretary.

Subscribers only Mining, Politics

Somalia
French security firm Amarante off to a rough start

Six months after beginning its mission to protect a European Union programme in Somalia, the private outfit has had to review some of its contracts there, provoking a backlash from several consultants.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Inner circles | Madagascar
All-powerful Senate boss General Ravalomanana and his army of loyalists

Madagascarn President Andry Rajoelina (right) with General Richard Ravalomanana in Antananarivo on 24 April 2025. © Jeanne Accorsini/Pool/AFP

With strong support from the military, Richard Ravalomanana also enjoys the full confidence of Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, even though he threatens to overshadow the head of state on the national stage.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

North Africa

Egypt
First delivery of French wheat for Egyptian military

European traders Soufflet and Louis Dreyfus are about to dispatch 180,000 tonnes of wheat from French ports, a symbolic victory for the Mostakbal Misr agency, which is struggling to impose its credibility.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

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