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Liberian President George Weah at UN headquarters in New York on 20 September 2023.

Spotlight | Guinea, Liberia
George Weah irks Washington and Robert Friedland with mine transfers to ArcelorMittal

Liberia has withdrawn licences from mining firms without informing them. Solway Mining, which was about to launch its iron ore project, has lost its asset to ArcelorMittal, which is strengthening its grip on iron ore production and its rail line monopoly to the detriment of Robert Friedland's US company HPX.

Subscribers only Mining

Central Africa

DRC
EU-DRC minerals partnership on cards at Global Gateway Forum

The EU and Kinshasa are set to sign an MoU on critical minerals in late October, paving the way for an important supply chain partnership.

Subscribers only Mining

Cameroon
Quifeurou squares off against Citibank

The Quifeurou hardware chain is at daggers drawn with one of its financial backers, the US bank Citibank.

Subscribers only Business

General Brice Oligui Nguema, president of the Gabonese transition.

Congo, Gabon
General Oligui set to visit Sassou

The Gabonese transition leader will travel to the Congo to meet its president on 1 October. The visit could be a first step towards easing tensions between Brazzaville and Libreville after a decade of frosty relations.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Burnt cars in front of the headquarters of the Parti nigérien pour la démocratie et le socialisme (Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism) of the deposed president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, in Niamey on 19 September 2023.

Niger
How Bazoum's inner circle deprived junta of telecoms surveillance system

The deactivation of an interception and geolocation platform by the president's loyalists in the days following the July putsch is one of the many grievances the ruling junta holds against deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum.

Subscribers only Defence

Ivory Coast
What role for the leader future of the PDCI opposition party?

Certain senior PDCI figures want to amend the party statutes to exclude the future chair from standing in the presidential election in 2025

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenyan president William Ruto on 15 September 2023 in San Francisco, California.

Kenya
Ruto continues his marathon diplomatic tour

The president of Kenya and his VP have been spending a lot of time abroad of late. After visits to North and South America respectively in September, they are both expected in Europe next month.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Djibouti
Detained ex-budget minister makes his case abroad

Behind bars since March 2022, former Djibouti budget minister Abdoulkarim Aden Cher is seeking to denounce what he considers to be arbitrary detention. Lawyers and NGOs may soon take his cause to the United Nations OHCHR.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascan president Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo on 26 June 2023.

Inner circles | Madagascar
Rajoelina's infighting advisers pursue their own business interests

Andry Rajoelina relies on a handful of loyal followers, some of whom have backed him since the coup that first brought him to power in Madagascar in 2009. But his inner circle, whose members use their positions to pursue their own business interests, is riven by internecine battles.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

North Africa

Tunisia
Arbitration between Zenith Energy and Tunisia moves slowly ahead

Tunisia has just appointed its arbitrator in the case Zenith Energy filed with ICSID on 5 June, claiming $48m.

Subscribers only Energy

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