African Development Bank

Ivory Coast
Ouattara mandates Standard Chartered to raise €813m

Ivory Coast plans to raise more than €800m in syndicated debt at a time when the country's public finances are in difficulty and the government is struggling to pay its domestic debt.

Guinea
China Railway Seventh Group wins contract to link Guinea and Guinea-Bissau

China Railway Seventh Group has finally won the contract to build the road from Boké in Guinea-Conakry to Québo in Guinea-Bissau. The contract is worth €39m.

Eswatini
African trio pips Portugal's Conduril to water contract

On 31 July, a consortium consisting of an Eswatinian company and two Malawian firms will launch a drinking water and sanitation project in Manzini in the centre-west, one of the four regions of Eswatini.

The New Guard
South Africa, Egypt, Togo

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

South AfricaZanele Mbuyisa, the #MeToo lawyer who might shake up the entire continent

EgyptSeif Thabet, the businessman who stands up to the military

TogoEstelle Komlan, first woman to head a trading room in WAEMU zone

Tunisia
Tunisian think tank lobbies for alternative EU-Tunisia migration plan

Fraught talks are ongoing between the European Union and Tunisia over an accord to police migration into the bloc. In Brussels, Ghazi ben Ahmed's Mediterranean Development Initiative is pushing for an alternative to Italy's vision that would see Tunis managing most migration controls.

DRC
China's CREC-8 wins contract to restore Kwango bridge

Chinese construction giant CREC-8 has won the contract to restore DR Congo's strategic Kwango bridge. The company submitted a $5.3m bid, which was lower that its two Chinese competitors.

Ivory Coast, Mali
Goïta calls on Ouattara to obtain financial support from BCEAO

Bamako is under economic pressure and is asking Abidjan for help in lifting certain measures imposed by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO).

DRC
China Three Gorges may be back on track to bag Grand Inga deal

The Congolese government, after a series of U-turns in the Grand Inga mega-dams project, is now looking again at plans proposed by China Three Gorges. Much to the chagrin of Australia's Fortescue Metals Group, which fears that it will lose the project.

Comoros islands
The World Bank provides Moroni with extra funds for port renovations

The World Bank is providing an additional $15m to overhaul the three main ports in the Comoros Islands.

Tanzania
Race is on to build and run Kakono dam

The Tanzanian national energy company TANESCO has launched a call for tenders for the construction, administration and surveillance of the future 87.8KW Kakono power plant, billed at over $300m.

Ivory Coast
Agétip Energies faces two-year exclusion from public contracts

Après avoir été évincés d'un contrat d'électrification, Agétip énergies & services (AES), le Groupe bâtir Afrique (GBA) et Akura sont sur le point d'être suspendus des procédures d'attributions de marchés publics ivoiriens pour deux ans.

Morocco
OCP poised to deliver fertilisers to Burundi

Bujumbura has turned to Morocco's OCP, which has been expanding rapidly on the continent of late. If it goes ahead, the deal will consolidate Rabat's 'phosphate diplomacy'.

Madagascar
Rajoelina pulls Eiffage off Sahofika dam project

After years of negotiations between the Madagascan president and the French construction company, the Sahofika hydroelectric power station project is being put out to a new call for tenders.

Niger
Niamey in talks with French events agency Viparis for its international conferences

Niger is holding talks with French events operator Viparis over a partnership deal for the organisation of conferences and forums in France and internationally, which Niamey counts on to attract investors.

Burundi, Rwanda
The African Development Bank finances a cross-border road project

With the border between Rwanda and Burundi reopening last September after six years, the Rwandan road agency has launched a first tender for a project to improve the road between the two countries

Palace Intrigues
Succès Masra, William Ruto, Khalifa Haftar, Abdelhamid Dabaiba

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Chad Opposition leader Masra to call on African leaders

Kenya Ruto's chief economist creates a stir

Libya Falcon Wings, the discreet airline flying both Dabaiba and Haftar

Niger Italian soldiers to check out of their 5-star hotel