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Spotlight | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Africa
China's Poly Technologies gets in with Sisi's army thanks to IMUT's armoured vehicles

The armoured vehicles IMUT ST-500 (centre) and ST-100 (left and right). © IMUT/Facebook

Chinese defence giant Poly Technologies has secretly taken a stake in the capital of IMUT, a company set up to deliver locally-built armoured vehicles to the Egyptian army and which is run from Pretoria by American-Egyptian busnessman Michel F.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Central Africa

Cameroon
Powerful SNH and SONARA crystallize anger of English-speaking regions

The two state oil institutions, both exclusively controlled by the president and a few of his liegemen, have become the prime target of activists in the southwest, where the population is just as distrustful of their English-speaking elites.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics

West Africa

Guinea
Adonis Pouroulis and Zafer Topaloglu team up to mine Kada's gold

Under the leadership of its chairman Adonis Pouroulis, Australian junior Golden Rim Resources will join the Kada gold project alongside Turkey's Vetro Gold, a subsidiary of Turkish businessman Zafer Topaloglu's Toya Group. Topaloglu has been planning a partnership with Pouroulis in Guinean gold for more than a year.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

East Africa, Southern Africa
Fertilizers: Yara goes on donation spree to hang on in race against OCP, Phosagro, Maaden

The Norwegian group Yara is using a mix of grants and infrastructure builds to promote its interests to African governments, who largely call the shots on how much fertilizer their countries order.

Subscribers only Mining

Djibouti
Who brought Africa Sun, Djibouti's first ever container ship, from Cyprus?

The Africa Sun docked at the Doraleh Container Terminal on 16 July. © DPFZA

Behind leading Djiboutian logistics mogul Aboubaker Omar Hadi, the young Aden Moussa Douksieh is quietly getting down to business.

Subscribers only Business

Somalia
Ousting of PM Khaire deprives US and EU of key ally

Former prime ministrer Hassan Ali Khaire. © Reuters

Hassan Ali Khaire, who resigned under duress as Somalia's prime minister on 25 July, was western diplomats' main point of contact in Farmajo's government.

Free access Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Mauritius
Wirecard scandal: German online payment giant's Mauritian helpers

The deal that inflated wiredcard's earnings. © Africa Intelligence

As investigations in Germany mount over the online payment giant Wirecard's high-profile bankruptcy, the Mauritian authorities are being dragged into the scandal. The German group used an accounting trick to inflate its revenues by €290m in a single week via structures registered on the island.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

North Africa

Libya
Ali Mahmoud Hassan mollifies UN to stay on as LIA head

Ali Mahmoud Hassan, president of the Libyan Investment Authority. © Libyan Herald

The LIA chairman, whose term in office expired on 15 July without being renewed, has set in motion Deloitte's re-evaluation of the sovereign wealth fund's assets, in line with the wishes of the United Nations.

Subscribers only Business

Algeria
Trade Minister Kamel Rezig scuppers association agreement with EU

Cooperation between Algiers and the European Union has been far from smooth sailing and is once again on thin ice.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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