Spotlight | Morocco
Bombardier eyes fully home-made Moroccan aircraft

Morocco
Canadian and Moroccan business leaders join forces to put free trade deal back on table

The Moroccan business federation CGEM is preparing to send a business delegation to Canada in September, at a time of unprecedented bilateral developments between the two countries' business sectors.

Tunisia
Tunis plans to revive floundering aeronautical industry

To revive the struggling aeronautical industry, Jalel Tabib, who heads the foreign investments agency FIPA, plans to extend the country's World Bank-backed Aftercare support programme to the sector.

Morocco
Egyptian fintech startup Money Fellows set for Moroccan launch

The fintech platform, which offers community lending, is at an advanced stage of negotiations.

The New Guard
Mali, Morocco, Ethiopia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Mali Djiby Kebe flies the flag for the Air Afrique collective

Morocco Startupper Jaafar Elalamy plans to boost mobility intelligence

Ethiopia Anteneh Tesfaye Goite, self-taught and committed investor

Cameroon
More ill winds for Fly ZeJet in wake of shareholder dispute

Cameroon airline Fly ZeJet is scrambling to get one of its planes grounded in Yaoundé back home.

Morocco
After copper, KCM positions itself on cobalt

The Jbiel mine, which currently produces only a modest volume of copper, has as yet untested cobalt potential. The operator, Kharrouba Copper Mining, is looking for investors and has approached US company Cunningham Mining.

Morocco
Mining magnate Benoît La Salle targets big Moroccan copper find

The Canadian head of Aya Gold & Silver believes he can find a major copper deposit in Morocco by investing in exploration. He has been discussing his plans with other mining sector figures like Robert Friedland and Mark Bristow.

DRC
State auditors pore over Congo Airways accounts

The financial authorities are currently going through the national airline's finances with a fine-tooth comb and claim to have detected a certain number of alleged irregularities.