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In Focus | Africa
TotalEnergies boss Patrick Pouyanné plans to keep his successors waiting in the wings

Around TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné (from left to right and top to bottom): Olivier Jouny, Stéphane Michel, Arnaud Le Foll and Julien Pouget. © Photos : Abaca Press/André Pinto/Alamy/LinkedIn/Totalenergies.com/Waltraud Grubitzsch via AFP. Visuel : Dmitriy Chistyakov/Alamy. Design: Studio Pachamama

At 60, the CEO and chairman of the oil major is not planning to give up his role any time soon. Instead, he intends to let the competition play out between the small handful of potential candidates for a few more years, before taking his leave.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Congo
Itoua speeds up unambitious hydrocarbons ministry reorganisation

The heads of the ministry's five new departments have now been appointed. Most of the appointments are internal, however, and raise once again the ongoing question of conflicts of interest.

Subscribers only Energy

Cameroon, Nigeria
New border puts Cameroon General Jacob Kodji's tomb in Nigeria

The new border demarcation between Cameroon and Nigeria means that the grave of Cameroonian Major General Jacob Kodji - a very popular figure in the Far North region - is now in Nigerian territory.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

West Africa

Nigeria
Tinubu keen to push on with Petroleum Industry Act review

The Nigerian president wants to correct flaws in the 2021 Petroleum Industry Act as soon as possible, and has put the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission to the task.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

Africa, African Union
Jostle for influence over 2025 AU Commission kicks off

A delegate arrives at the African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters during the 35th ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa, on 6 February 2022. © Tiksa Negeri/Reuters

The first stages of the process to select the Pan-African organisation's future executive will soon be underway. The current balance of power between the bloc's various regions may play out once more.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Uganda
Bobi Wine's complaint to ICC also targets Ugandan judicial system

Ugandan opponent Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine, in July 2023. © Anna Webber / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

The complaint lodged by the Ugandan opposition leader at the International Criminal Court not only accuses the executive of torture and crimes against humanity but also targets what it says is the country's skewed justice system.

Subscribers only Politics

Somalia
UK consultancy Adam Smith International boosts its presence in Mogadishu

UK consultancy Adam Smith International, which is already well established in Mogadishu, has won a new €5.3m contract there to assist the Office of the Auditor General of Somalia reform its work and to help the government battle endemic corruption.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Zambia
Nomination of a new ambassador to Zambia raises questions

The former head of the French interior ministry's EU department Jean Mafart, who was identified in a 2022 media investigation, is conveniently poised to be appointed ambassador to Zambia.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Libya
NOC calls in EY to review its gas development strategy

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) is increasingly using the services of foreign consulting groups. It has ordered a new report from EY to help it define its gas development programme. The order follows one recently carried out by US company Kearney.

Free access Energy

Tunisia
Water scarcity proves a bonanza for Bonna Sabla

Bonna Sabla’s local subsidiary has emerged as one of Tunisia’s leading SMEs by working with the country’s sanitation authority ONAS to combat water scarcity.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

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