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Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

KenyaState House employees find First Lady's fasting hard to swallow

CongoDenis Sassou Nguesso honours his oilmen

TunisiaKaïs Saïed blocks football boss from attending FIFA congress

Ivory CoastBen Moctar Maouloud courts French arms companies at Bpifrance salon

Central African Republic
A discreet Chinese firm investigates the killing of nine miners working for Royal Cost Gold

Last week's unclaimed deadly attack on a mining site run by Chinese citizens in Chimbolo has sent shockwaves through the Chinese community, which is very active in this sector. An economic intelligence firm is looking into the activities of armed groups in the area.

Burkina Faso
State-owned Sonabhy tries to keep fuel flowing

Instead of soliciting letters of credit on its own behalf, Sonabhy has called on the financier Roland Yago to facilitate getting the documents for Burkina Faso fuel distributors so they can buy directly from the traders who supply the state-owned fuel supply firm's port depots.

Mali
France's Corsair has sights sets on Paris-Bamako route for high season

Mali's civil aviation agency ANAC is keeping the French airline Corsair waiting over its offer to operate the Paris-Bamako route over the 2023 high season starting in June.

Kenya
High Court asked to order liquidation of Ruto's insurance company

The commercial division of the High Court of Kenya is due to hear an application in Mombasa on 22 May for the winding up of Africa Merchant Assurance Co (Amaco).

African Union
Azali Assoumani visits NYC and Addis Ababa on first tour as AU president

Comoros and African Union (AU) President Azali Assoumani will address the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) today at a meeting on terrorism before travelling to the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.

Africa
Francophonie chief Louise Mushikiwabo imposes her choice of number two on Canada

The appointment on 21 March of Québécoise Caroline St-Hilaire as number two in the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie under Rwanda's Louise Mushikiwabo was only a half-victory for Canada.

South Africa
TotalEnergies puzzles over where to send gas from 11B/12B

French major TotalEnergies still does not know where to send the gas it will produce on block 11B/12B. One possibility is starting to emerge for the firm's main gas project in South Africa.

Egypt
Electricity and oil ministries clash over green hydrogen plans

Egypt's trade partners and international investors want to speed up the development of green hydrogen by incorporating it into the framework of the East Med Gas Forum. But Cairo's Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy does not see eye to eye with its Ministry of Petroleum and Resources over the way forward.

Algeria
Why Ramtane Lamamra's resignation as foreign minister was no surprise

Ramtane Lamamra had been considering stepping down from his job as Algeria's foreign minister for almost a year before he finally bit the bullet. His decision was partly motivated by a diplomatic crisis between Algiers and Madrid.