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Africa, France
Parties squabble over Franco-African parliamentary friendship groups

In a rare occurrence, negotiations for the presidencies of parliamentary friendship groups in France's National Assembly are the subject of bitter negotiations between the majority and opposition groups. The France-Morocco group is particularly disputed.

DRC
Kinshasa wants a piece of the pie following Glencore's $1bn guilty plea

Breaking news published on 15/06/22 at 12:25 - In the wake of the agreement reached last May between Glencore and the US Department of Justice, which puts an end to the latter's investigations into the Swiss trader, Congolese financial intelligence intends to claim compensation for the prejudice caused to the DRC.

Africa, France
Lobbyists battle hard in French overseas constituencies

As French citizens abroad prepare to vote in the second round of the French parliamentary elections, a number of lobbyists and PR execs with good connections within Africa's presidential palaces are working hard alongside the remaining candidates.

The New Guard
DRC, Madagascar, Congo, Botswana

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

DRCMatthieu Kayoka, Kabila's party diplomatic adviser

MadagascarLova Rinel, former adviser to Rajaonarimampianina, majority candidate for France's parliamentary elections

CongoLoic Mackosso, Brazzaville's ubiquitous financial adviser

BotswanaFrom London to Paris, Kaene Disepo the campaigner from Gaborone

Africa, France
Battle for 10th constituency in France's legislative polls plays out from Libreville to Yaoundé

With French legislative elections due in June, the main candidates to be the MP for the 10th constituency, which is for French nationals who live abroad and includes more than 10 African countries, are sharpening their weapons.

Africa, DRC, Israel
Israel's Rayzone Group makes play for DRC cyber deal

In a sign of its growing interest in Africa, the Israeli cyberintelligence firm Rayzone Group presented its interception and cybersecurity systems to a visiting delegation from the DRC recently, a few weeks after prospecting for business in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

West Africa
Kosmos execs between a rock and a hard place as frontier exploration ends

The US junior now wants to limit itself to exploration near its existing infrastructure. The decision has led to the departure of several executives who favour the firm's traditional frontier exploration approach.

In Focus | Africa
The many lives of David Salama, go-to offshore specialist for sovereign wealth funds and oligarchs

For more than twenty years, David Salama has been putting his talents as an offshore virtuoso at the service of African states and tycoons active on the continent.

Senegal
The worst-case scenarios most feared by FAR and Woodside for Sangomar sale

Two firms are in the running to purchase FAR's 15% in Sangomar, as the field operator Woodside watches carefully from behind the scenes. FAR's shareholders are anxious for a potential buyer to make a firm offer.

Senegal
Remus Horizons, the well-connected surprise bidder for FAR's Sangomar stake

The surprise prospective buyer of FAR's 15% stake in Sangomar, Remus Horizon, is led by oil sector veterans whose networks stretch as far as China, the UAE, the UK and the Netherlands but to date have no projects in their portfolio.

DRC, Finland, Luxembourg, Mauritius
Next stop Finland - mining magnate Jean-Raymond Boulle goes for gold

Still a big mining player in southern Africa and busy with sugarcane in his native Mauritius, Jean-Raymond Boulle, who did well in a wartorn Congo in the late 1990s, has set up a new company to expand his horizons, seemingly into northern Europe.

Burkina Faso
Africa Ren speeds up Bobo-Dioulasso solar farm project

French renewables firm Africa Ren, which is finalising the finance and choice of contractor for its plant in Burkina Faso, could break ground later this year.

Gabon
Food aid makes for healthy public relations

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, leading political figures and entrepreneurs are finding that food donations are good for their image.