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Spotlight | Africa, Ethiopia, UAE
MbZ favourite International Golden Group expands Africa focus

Often used to vehicle Emirati diplomacy, the UAE defence conglomerate IGG has been picking up projects in Africa and sent a team to Addis Ababa to scout for military sales opportunities in July.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Central Africa

Inner circles | DRC
Félix Tshisekedi's diplomacy: great international expectations but with neither troops nor resources

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi receiving his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on June 25, 2021. © DRC Presidency/Twitter

In Berlin today at the invitation of Angela Merkel, the DRC president is using every available means to pull his country out of diplomatic isolation. Rather than relying on a diplomatic corps that was largely inherited from his predecessor Joseph Kabila, he has preferred to rely on a group of loyalists from within the presidency.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Chad
Covid era accentuates CNPC's differential treatment of local staff

While work-leave rotation patterns have returned to normal for the company's Chinese staff, its locally-employed employees are an entirely different boat.

Subscribers only Energy

Congo
Prime Minister Makosso, Sassou IV's champion in Paris

DRC prime minister Anatole Collinet Makosso with the French minister of state for tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. © Twitter account Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne

The Congolese prime minister has been in Paris since August 24, on what is his first international trip, where he has been heading a large delegation that has been meeting with French officials and the business community.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Gabon
Fire forced BW Energy to temporarily halt production at Dussafu

Norwegian company BW Energy has halted production on the Dussafu block in Gabon for the past week due to a fire which broke out on 18 August on the Adolo FPSO unit operated by the parent company BW Offshore, partially damaging the installation.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Guinea, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone activists take action against Beny Steinmetz before the US courts

Sierra Leone NGO Marginalised Affected Property Owners, which is taking legal action in the country against Beny Steinmetz Group Resources to obtain recognition of the environmental and social damage caused by its Koidu diamond mine, has asked a US court to give it access to documents it hopes will help it win its case.

Subscribers only Mining

Africa, Russia
African army chiefs keener than ever to acquire Russian armaments

Military delegations and experts from throughout Africa made the journey to Moscow this week to take party in the annual Army 2021 trade fair. An opportunity for Russia to strengthen its influence in the African security sector.

Free access Defence, Business

Africa, Switzerland
Banque Cantonale de Genève gains as leading banks pull out of trade finance

Banque Cantonale de Genève, which has many clients active in Africa, has been riding on an uptake in trade finance since the beginning of the year.

Subscribers only Finance, Commodity traders, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

DRC, Ethiopia
Abiy sends watchdog to monitor DRC's chairmanship of the African Union

The new Ethiopian ambassador to DRC Woinshet Tadesse is well acquainted with the workings of the pan-African institution, having previously served as Addis' permanent representative to the African Union (AU).

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Somalia
Mohamed Hussein Roble waits in the shadows as presidential election approaches

Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble. © REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Mohamed Hussein Roble is not officially a presidential candidate but over the past few weeks, Somalia's prime minister has been making an increasing number of trips abroad.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana
British financier Michael McNeilly strengthens his position in the Copperbelt

As the first copper mines make their appearance in western Botswana, the number of would-be mining operators interested in the Kalahari Copperbelt is increasing. Among them, Michael McNeilly has already taken up a leading position.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
Turkey's Yildirim and Albayrak groups fight for the port of Misrata

Just a few weeks after Albayrak, Yildirim is set to enter a bid for the management concession for the port of Misrata in the city's free zone. The two groups are fighting to give Turkey a long-term presence in the Libyan port sector.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Tunisia
A rattled Ghannouchi seeks way forward with Kais Saied

Rached Ghannouchi. © REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

The head of the Islamist Ennahda party has instructed MP Mohamed Goumani, who is close to the president's brother Naoufel Saied, to reopen negotiation channels with the head of state.

Subscribers only Politics

Algeria
Algiers discreetly prepared its partners for its break-up with Rabat

Algeria's foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra speaks during a news conference in Algiers, August 24, 2021. © REUTERS/Abdelaziz Boumzar

In the months prior to Algeria's unexpected announcement on 24 August that it was breaking off diplomatic ties with Morocco, its security chiefs were in regular contact with their foreign partners. They detailed to them their complaints about Morocco and accused it of encouraging two of Algeria's leading opposition movements to form an alliance.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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