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Spotlight | Rwanda
Qatar Airways set to finalise award of contract for Bugesera-Kigali airport

Rwanda and Qatar Airways sign agreements on an investment partnership for the airport project, witnessed by Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Paul Kagame in Kigali, 9 December, 2019. © Lv Tianran/Xinhua/Newscom/MaxPPP

The construction of Rwanda's Qatari-funded new airport is set to enter its final phase following the completion of earthworks by Portugal's Mota Engil. Five candidates are in the running to build it.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Central Africa

Congo
French PR specialist Patricia Goldman approaches Denis Sassou-Nguesso

In early April, the Paris-based communications expert Patricia Goldman discreetly offered her firm Patricia Goldman International's services to the Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa

Nigeria
ENI sale of NAOC to Oando imminent

After concluding a months-long assessment, the Nigerian upstream regulator is expected to authorise the transaction in the coming days. The acquisition means the company led by President Tinubu's nephew will nearly double its oil reserves.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Ruto plans military reinforcements for Rift Valley

Kenyan president William Ruto during a ceremony in honour of the military officers killed in a helicopter crash in Nairobi, on 20 April, 2024. © Luis Tato/AFP

The president's security advisers have convinced him to give the army more latitude in combating militias in the North Rift region - at the expense of the police, whose collaboration with the military is proving problematic.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Egypt, Sudan
Burhan appoints trusted ambassador to Cairo ahead of Jeddah talks

Sudanese Armed Forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has appointed Emad al-Din Mustafa Adawi as Sudan's ambassador in Cairo. The move comes as talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are to resume in Jeddah in the latest bid to end the civil war.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Israel's TNM begins work on road corridors

Israeli company Technology Consulting & Management has just signed tender documents for road corridor projects in central-eastern Mozambique.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

North Africa

Morocco
After copper, KCM positions itself on cobalt

The Jbiel mine, which currently produces only a modest volume of copper, has as yet untested cobalt potential. The operator, Kharrouba Copper Mining, is looking for investors and has approached US company Cunningham Mining.

Subscribers only Mining

Algeria
Cevital suspends operations at one of its sugar refineries

Export restrictions on staple food products recently forced Cevital, Algeria's leading agro-industrial firm, to close one of its two sugar refineries in Bejaia.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

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