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Spotlight | Senegal
Dakar's secret €300m arms contract

Mbaye Cissé, Senegal's chief of staff, in Ankara, 19 December 2024. © Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via AFP

In the midst of a budget shortfall and IMF scrutiny of the state's accounts, the Senegalese authorities signed a €317m contract with a Turkish company to equip the army for three years.

Subscribers only Defence

Central Africa

Central African Republic
Wagner seeks to regain control in south-east

A general view of a patch with the logo of the private mercenary group Wagner on the uniform of a member of the Central African Republic armed forces in Bouboui (CAR), 1 March 2025. © Patrick Meinhardt/AFP

After several months of absence from the prefecture of Haut-Mbomou, where Azande trained by the paramilitary outfit mutinied, the Russians recently carried out several arrests.

Free access Defence, Politics

Cameroon
Leading frozen food company Congelcam chooses Kribi Port over Douala

After its dispute two years ago with the Douala Port Authority, the company owned by businessman Sylvestre Ngouchinghe moved the bulk of its activities to its Kribi site.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Exim Bank, Trump's weapon against Beijing

US Exim Bank's new strategy of countering Chinese groups' activities could lead to a strengthening of its missions on the continent. A delegation from the institution is due to visit Abidjan shortly.

Subscribers only Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya, Nigeria
Nigerian reinsurer Continental Re gears up for its return to the stock market

The reinsurance company, headed since 2021 by Lawrence Mutsunge Nazare, is seeking to raise new capital to strengthen its activities on the continent. Its ambitions extend beyond its home country, where it left the Nigerian Stock Exchange five years ago.

Subscribers only Finance

Somalia
National football team coach quits over unpaid salary

Appointed in July 2023, Rachid Loustèque has not received his monthly salary of €5,000 since last May. The coach has decided to resign from his position and take his case to Fifa.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
France's Musée de l'Homme to return royal relics to Menabe

Madagascan Culture Minister Volamiranty Donna Mara and her French Counterpart Rachida Dati in Paris, 3 October 2024. © Quentin de Groeve/Hans Lucas via AFP

Ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Antananarivo, Madagascar's culture minister will be travelling to Paris to recover the skull of King Toera. Accompanied by descendants of the former sovereign, she will co-preside over a ceremony in the presence of her French counterpart Rachida Dati.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Inner circles | Morocco
Moulay Hafid Elalamy makes his business comeback surrounded by trusted allies

Moulay Hafid Elalamy during the 68th FIFA Congress in Moscow, 13 June 2018. © Mladen Anotnov/AFP

With the acquisition of the Moroccan branch of Société Générale last year, the Saham founder confirmed his return to centre stage. To see through his new projects, this well-connected entrepreneur continues to rely on young protégés who are now established business figures in their own right.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Libya
NOC prevents three Swiss companies from seizing its shares in Mabruk Oil Operations

Libya's national oil company has won its legal battle against Jallouli Communications Group Easymedia, Sysmed Travel and Hôpital de la Tour, which had managed to seize its shares in the French subsidiary Mabruk Oil Operations.

Subscribers only Business

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