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In Focus | Morocco
Rabat's secret plan to supply Morocco's future gigafactories with strategic minerals

Investment Minister Mohcine Jazouli and Hassan Ouriaghli, head of Al Mada. © Studio Pachamama/STR/Samir Tounsi/AFP/Fedor Selivanov/Shutterstock/Mohamed Elbendary/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP/SNI

Battery industry giants, including South Korea's LG and China's Gotion, have announced three major electric vehicle battery plants in Morocco in recent months. But the sourcing of their critical metals remains a major unknown factor.

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Central Africa

Cameroon
Probe into visa trafficking at French consulate runs out of steam

A Cameroonian investigation, which received heavy media coverage after the death of a French diplomat in August, is struggling to make progress. The French foreign ministry began its own inquiry in July.

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DRC
New mining register boss cracks down on private permits

Popol Mabolia Yenga, who took up his new duties as the head of the DRC’s mining register authority CAMI on 3 August, has adopted a hardline stance towards private citizens holding mining permits.

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West Africa

Africa
MPs mull France's Africa policies

Deputy Thomas Gassilloud, president of the Defence Committee of the French Assembly. © Amaury Cornu/Hans Lucas via AFP

Members of the National Assembly's defence committee are preparing to visit several African countries after first meeting members of various other parliamentary groupings.

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Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara set to meet Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is expected to travel to France on 3 November. As well as spending a few days at his home in Mougins in the south-east, his trip will include a more official component, too.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Smouldering Kenyatta rebuffs Gachagua's advances

The former president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, in Nairobi on 6 December 2022. © Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP

After attacking the former head of state, the deputy president changed tack, proffering an olive branch via Kenyatta's associates. So far, no dice.

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Southern Africa and islands

Zambia
Abdoulaye 'Gounass' Ndiaye's mysterious Dubai emerald auction

Senegalese billionaire Abdoulaye "Gounass" Ndiaye recently held a discreet, four-day auction sale of Zambian diamonds in Dubai.

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Namibia
Former Namcor boss about to find out if he is to be reinstated or not

Immanuel Mulunga, the managing director of Namibian national oil company Namcor who was sanctioned suddenly last April, still does not know what his fate will be.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Libya
Libyan ambassador to Paris rattles French investors

At a meeting organised by the Franco-Arabic Chamber of Commerce, the Libyan ambassador to Paris criticised French investors for being too hesitant to invest in his country.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

Tunisia
Could €60m in EU aid snubbed by Tunis still make its way to Tunisian businesses?

Rather than topping up the Tunisian state's coffers, the €60m in budgetary aid that President Kais Saied sent back to the EU could be used to finance technologically innovative Tunisian companies.

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