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Spotlight | Senegal
Macky Sall grapples with turbulent financial markets

Senegalese president Macky Sall at UN headquarters in New York on 19 September 2023. © Adam Gray/Getty via AFP

The Senegalese president, who is set to leave office in a few months, is having to deal with a major liquidity shortage, which is forcing the state to borrow on the international markets at particularly high interest rates.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics

Central Africa

Cameroon
Biya makes overtures to Putin via Indomitable Lions

Cameroonian president Paul Biya and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg on 28 July 2023. © Artem Geodakyan / TASS Host Photo Agency / AFP

Cameroon has arranged to play a friendly in Moscow in mid-October. It will be the first football match between an African team and Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and has been actively encouraged by the Cameroonian president.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

DRC
Justice minister Mutombo orders investigation into Glencore deal

The public prosecutor at the court of cassation has summoned the head of the anti-corruption agency to question him over a deal with the Swiss trading giant.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Abidjan keeps up cocoa pressure on Brussels

As the start of the 2023-2024 cocoa season approaches, the Conseil Café-Cacao is stepping up pressure on the EU by continuing its blockade of forward sales of cocoa beans.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

Niger
Junta spokesman pays hush-hush visit to Doha

The junta’s spokesman took part in the Conference of Ministers of Culture of the Islamic World organised in Doha on 25 on 26 September by the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ICESCO).

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Ivory Coast
Digital pioneer Sonec Africa hits hard times

Digital platform pioneer Sonec Africa has been excluded from public procurement procedures for two years.

Subscribers only Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Chemase goldmine saga takes new turn with elderly landowner's 'abduction'

The leasing of a small and potentially gold-rich plot in Ruto's fiefdom in western Kenya to British mining company Karebe has sparked a family row whose ripples extend to the president's entourage.

Subscribers only Mining, Politics

Djibouti
Central bank braces for its first FATF anti-graft review

The international financial crime watchdog is about to launch its first assessment of the measures Djibouti has put in place to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

Subscribers only Finance

Southern Africa and islands

Zimbabwe
US ruling in von Pezold case saddles Harare with more debt

Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube on 3 August 2023 in Hwange, in the west of the country. © Zinyange Auntony / AFP

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld the ruling ordering Zimbabwe to pay $440.3m in damages for the wrongful seizure of farmland in 2000 and 2001.

Subscribers only Finance, Mining

North Africa

Algeria
Investment promotion agency plans foreign tour

The new body set up in September 2022 is aiming to attract and reassure investors with new incentives.

Subscribers only Finance

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