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In Focus | Central African Republic, Chad
From Bangui to N'Djamena, the secret war of the Fula's 'defenders'

Rebel leader Ali Darass, head of the Union pour la paix en Centrafrique (UPC). © Gaël Grilhot/AFP

Rebel leaders Baba Laddé, Ali Darass and Hassan Bouba have proclaimed themselves defenders of the Fula, a community widely shunned within the region, in a strategy of self-defence that handily fits in with their own interests.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

DRC
State firm competes with local and foreign groups on mining freight market

Cédrick Tshizainga Kapumba, LMC's CEO. © LMC

The state-owned shipping company Lignes Maritimes Congolaises plans to launch its export service from the DRC on 1 June, with its primary target being mining groups.

Subscribers only Mining

Central African Republic
Bangui's mayor on the lookout for a new urban planner

Bangui Mayor Emile-Gros Raymond Nakombo. © Minusca/Twitter

The Central African capital is set to benefit from financial aid from the African Development Bank to carry out its development plans, which comes on top of partnerships already established with French and other international organisations.

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DRC
Taiwan tries to force the DRC to repay a 30-year-old debt

Taiwan's lawyers, who won a US court ruling in 2017 ordering the DRC to pay $57.3m for an unpaid debt dating back to 1991, are now trying to target Congolese assets in the US.

Subscribers only Mining, Business

West Africa

Mali
Moura massacre: the explosive UN report

A UN Security Council meeting on 7 April 2022, discussing the Moura massacre in Mali. © Norway MFA/Twitter

The UN's OHCHR is shortly due to hand over its investigation on the killings that took place in the village of Moura in central Mali in March to the body's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The document points the finger at Mali's Armed Forces and Russia's Wagner group, and could have repercussions on the UN's presence in Mali.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Germany's Grob reinforces new Kenya Air Force training centre

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the Aviation Centre of Excellence on 7 April 2022. © Kenya Defence Forces/Twitter

Kenya's new Aviation Centre of Excellence will begin training helicopter pilots and hopes to train military and civil air pilots throughout East Africa in the near future.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Rwanda
US contractor Axxeum to pamper Pentagon's Cessna gifts to Rwandan Air Force

US defence contractor Axxeum is preparing to send its teams of technicians to the Kigali military air base to maintain the two new Cessna C-208 EX Grand Caravan aircraft that are due to be delivered by Washington in July

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Djibouti
Ex-minister and former chief of police sentenced to prison in IOG 'TX affair'

Four months after the start of the so-called IOG 'TX affair', the courts have sentenced former budget minister Bodeh Ahmed Robleh and ex-police chief Abdillahi Abdi Farah to prison.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Luanda targets small investors as majors lose interest

With Angola's national oil output in steadily decline and threatening to fall below one million bpd, the government is changing tactic. All too aware that the industry leaders are no longer interested in its fields, the country has shifted its focus onto junior firms.

Subscribers only Energy

South Africa
ANC prepares to lose absolute majority in 2024

ANC officials paint an uncompromising portrait of the party and its continued loss of voters, ringing alarm bells before the July policy conference and announcing a strategy for securing power in areas it still controls.

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North Africa

Morocco
Lydec saga to jam up Veolia's takeover of Suez

A team from the Lydec water company in Casablanca. © MAP/Story&Brands

Moroccan authorities have not approved the Casablanca utility's change of ownership as part of the mega-merger. Lydec, which was set to be the international jewel in the crown of the "New Suez", will therefore be attached to Veolia by default.

Subscribers only Business

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