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Spotlight | Gabon
Oligui Nguema launches post-referendum battle for control of BGFIBank

President of Gabon General Brice Oligui Nguema (right) after casting his vote during the constitutional referendum in Libreville on 16 November 2024. © Christ Darcel/EPA/MaxPPP

The transition president wants the Bongo clan's holding company Delta Synergie to hand over its shares in the bank, in exchange for cancelling an audit into the firm. Henri-Claude Oyima, BGFIBank's CEO for nearly 40 years, finds himself in a precarious position.

Subscribers only Finance

The Continent

Inner circles | Africa
Saadé family's CMA CGM entrusts military and diplomatic veterans with its Africa ops

Rodolphe Saadé, chief executive of CMA CGM, in Marseille in September 2019. © Boris Horvat/AFP

Rodolphe Saadé and his sister Tanya run the world's third-largest shipping firm from Marseille with an iron fist. For CMA CGM's African operations, the siblings rely on former diplomats, ex-military, and merchant navy veterans.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

DRC
Struggling Sodimico takes a hard look at its mining partnerships

The board of directors of the state-owned mining company, which has been in place for just over a year, has been reviewing the deals it has entered into in the past. And several of them are now deemed to be of dubious value.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Guinea
Doumbouya looks to Fouta Djalon for carbon credits

The region is known as the 'water tower of West Africa'.

Subscribers only Finance

Ivory Coast
Ouattara set to release final 2024 defence funds

The disbursement comes after multiple delays.

Subscribers only Defence

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Former Janjaweed warlord Musa Hilal's faltering comeback

Sudanese Janjaweed militia chief Musa Hilal in Khartoum on 11 March 2021. © Ebrahim Hamid / AFP

Musa Hilal, a long-standing rival of paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo in the Darfur region, is manoeuvring behind the scenes and waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback as the country's civil war rages.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Ethiopia
Justice ministry stifles Tigray probe into MSF deaths

Soon after Médecins Sans Frontières marked the three-year anniversary of the murders of three of its employees in northern Ethiopia, the government quietly pulled the plug on its investigations and has released nothing about its findings.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Madagascar
World Bank postpones $100m budget support

With Andry Rajoelina's government failing to meet the requisite conditions, the World Bank, like the IMF, has postponed its budget support until the first quarter of 2025.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Morocco
5G tender call postponed again

Three leading telecommunications providers are vying to deploy 5G in Morocco, which is co-hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Africa
Moscow plans for further African gatherings

Soon after the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum wrapped on 10 November, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began working on a second edition.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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