During his tour of the Great Lakes countries, Qatari diplomat Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi faced reticence from several regions' leaders, who are wary of Qatar's mediation in the eastern DR Congo conflict.
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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.
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.
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Commodity traders 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.
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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).
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Business 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.
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Diplomacy 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.
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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.
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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.
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Energy 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.
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