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In Focus | Morocco
Elbaz opens up Forafric's capital to Trumpists and Kazakh oligarch Machkevitch via Nasdaq listing

Yariv Elbaz, president of Forafric, during a meeting with the Autonomous Port of Abidjan on 25 August 2020. © Story & Brands via PAA

Financier Yariv Elbaz, who specialises in complex financial operations, particularly for the Gabonese sovereign fund, is putting the final touches to a stock exchange operation that will turn his Forafric milling group into a leading force in the cereals "diplomacy" stakes with powerful financial and political allies.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Central Africa

DRC
Dig Oil wins confirmation of $619m arbitration award against DRC in Brussels

Following the United States, the Belgian courts have also ruled in favour of enforcing the decision of a Paris arbitration court in favour of the oil junior Dig Oil against Kinshasa.

Subscribers only Energy

Congo
How big players in African oil helped Trident OGX clinch MKB block

A top executive of the US oil services firm made the most of his connections to unseat the state-owned SNPC and win its first block in Congo.

Subscribers only Energy

Burundi, DRC
How the Burundian army is hunting down rebels in Congolese territory on the quiet

Gitega has deployed hundreds of soldiers in neighbouring DRC's South Kivu province to track down Red-Tabara, a rebel group with Burundian roots. Unlike Uganda's operations against the Allied Democratic Forces further north, which Kinshasa okayed, this operation is taking place in great secrecy.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

DRC
Bintou Keita to stay on as MONUSCO head

The head of the United Nations Mission in the DRC (Monusco), Bintou Keita. © DRC Presidency/Twitter

The tenure of Bintou Keita as head of MONUSCO, the UN mission in the DRC, is set to be extended for a year.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Africa, France
Hubert Goutay trapped in judicial and diplomatic labyrinth four months on from arrest

French trader Hubert Goutay, head of Goodness. © Hubert Goutay/LinkedIn

Detained in Morocco for the last four months on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Benin for alleged complicity in drug trafficking, the French sugar trader Hubert Goutay is attempting to plead his case in court.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Burkina Faso
Coup leader Damiba reassures Endeavour's local head over gold mines

Adama Soro, who has been running the activities of the Canadian group Endeavour Mining since January 2018 in Burkina Faso, met on 27 January with the junta's strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba who has been in power since 24 January.

Subscribers only Mining

Senegal
Macky Sall still hopes to meet his goal of electrifying all of Senegal

Senegalese President Macky Sall. © John Angelillo/UPI/MaxPPP

To extend Senegal's electricity network, Macky Sall could receive a major boost from the World Bank, which is considering releasing $150m to help the state-owned company Senelec invest in its infrastructure.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
ICC deploys team to record any violence at the 2022 presidential election

In preparation for what is expected to be a tense election campaign, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan has dispatched a legal team to Nairobi to gather potential proof of election violence.

Subscribers only Politics

Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda
Warming of Kagame-Museveni relations raises hopes for route to Bujumbura

Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Ugandan and Burundian counterparts Yoweri Museveni and Evariste Ndayishimiye. © Paul Kagame/Yoweri Museveni/Evariste Ndayishimiye/Twitter

The reopening of the Ugandan-Rwandan border could lead to a trade corridor to Burundi. Neighbours and rivals in the Great Lakes are determined to put aside their differences to revive badly affected economies.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

Tanzania
Zanzibar ditches planned Chinese port at Mpiga Duri

A year ago, Tanzania confirmed two deep-water port concessions on the Zanzibar coast. But amid fraying relations between Dodoma and Beijing, one of them has been abandoned.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Brazil, South Africa
Brazil to import maize seeds to keep South Africa sweet

Brazil, accused by its African partners of lacking reciprocity in opening up agricultural markets, has decided to make a gesture by allowing maize seeds to be imported from South Africa.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Diplomacy

Zambia
President Hichilema must take responsibility for the decisions of his predecessor over the Konkola mine dispute

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. © Andy Buchanan/Reuters

More than two years after the previous government placed the Konkola copper mine in liquidation in a move contested by its operator Vedanta Resources, the future of the site has still not been decided by the courts.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Tunisia
IDB throws its weight behind Tunis's African exports drive

Tunisia is being shunned by most major international lenders, but it can still rely on the Islamic Development Bank, which continues to back projects in the country. The institution, whose largest single contributor is Saudi Arabia, intends to push trade development with the rest of the continent.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

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