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In Focus | Senegal
Ofer, AfDB and FMO see their millions go up in smoke at Sendou

The Sendou power station, Senegal. © Nic Bothma/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Dutch development agency FMO and the African Development Bank have opened an investigation into the financing of the Sendou power station by a group of promoters led by Stockholm-based businessman Louis Claude Norland Suzor. The two institutions have invested over $110 million in the power station with little to show for it.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy, Business

Central Africa

DRC
US firms beef up DRC military engineering capacity

The deployment of US defence contractors to support Congolese military engineers will boost security cooperation between Washington and Kinshasa as the Chinese engineering contingent deployed within MONUSCO leaves the country.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

West Africa

Nigeria
Marginal asset sales: ExxonMobil reshuffles its Lagos management team

The US major has appointed a number of new executives to take charge of the sale of its unwanted fields to Nigerian operators.

Subscribers only Energy

Gambia
Petronor wins concessions from Banjul but remains reliant on BP

After being pushed out of Gambia, the Norwegian-Emirati firm has struck a highly favourable deal with the state, taking over a block that will cost it nothing for twelve months and is located close to a site where the British major is scheduled to drill.

Subscribers only Energy

France
Emmanuel Macron to visit Luanda and Pretoria in December

Le président français se rendra en Angola et en Afrique du Sud au mois de décembre pour une mini-tournée africaine de plusieurs jours.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Vested interests in play as Sudan sits on its hands over gold smuggling

Gold bars seized from a plane by Sudanese Rapid Support Forces at Khartoum Airport are displayed in an investigation into possible smuggling, in Khartoum, Sudan May 9, 2019. © MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAH/Reuters

As it negotiates to re-establish relations with the International Monetary Fund, Sudan is under pressure to better control its gold exports. The trouble is, the yellow metal's leading dealers sit on the ruling Sovereign Council.

Subscribers only Mining, Business

Kenya
Kenyatta in Paris with his WTO candidate

President Uhura Kenyatta. © Nicolas Kovarik/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

A five-minister delegation will arrive in Paris on 29 September with President Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss business and to boost Amina Mohamed's bid to take the helm of the WTO.

Subscribers only Business

Southern Africa and islands

France, Madagascar
Rajoelina, French ambassador fail to bury the hatchet

Despite a meeting between Ambassador Christophe Bouchard and President Andry Rajoelina, relations between Paris and Antananarivo remain frosty.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Angola
Total cleans up as Odebrecht ejected from block 16

Oil minister Diamantino Azevedo has officially sounded the final whistle for Brazilian giant Odebrecht on the Angolan block 16, operated by Total

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Libya
Arbitration: $1bn Al Kharafi-LIA dispute to play out in France's highest court

The Kuwaiti company is fighting to the bitter end to keep hold of the Libyan sovereign fund's French assets it seized seven years ago, but the arbitration ruling behind the confiscation has been reversed in Egypt.

Subscribers only Business

Africa, Morocco
André Baya takes charge of Mohammed VI's international mining business

On 1 October, Mauritian national André Baya will become international Chief Operating Officer at Managem, the mining company controlled by Mohammed VI's royal holding company Al Mada.

Subscribers only Mining, Business

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