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