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20/07/2017 CONGO-B -
So Brazzaville is broke? Riyadh rides to the rescue

12/07/2017 IVORY COAST -
Alassane Ouattara rings the changes in his diplomatic service

12/07/2017 EQUATORIAL GUINEA -
"Teodorin" lets the nation pay his interior decorator!

SPOTLIGHT KENYA 21/07/2017

Why the presidential election will be held regardless

Despite attempts by the opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition headed by former prime minister Raila Odinga to postpone August's election, the actual date was not changed by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). [...]

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Special report DJIBOUTI 13/07/2017

Military asset had set sail from China to Djibouti ©Bloomberg

China reveals the true intentions behind its naval base

AFRICA TOGO 12/07/2017

Faure Gnassingbe's high-risk Israeli gamble

Faure Gnassingbe and Benjamin Netanyahu will attend at Israel/Africa summit on october. ©DR

Oil KENYA 11/07/2017

Uhuru Kenyatta's electoral machine short on oil

The highly-anticipated test production on the Lokichar deposits, on which the head of state has been waiting for several months, now won't be transported to the coast for some time. [...]

LIBYA 20/07/2017

France struggles to impose its new pro-Haftar line

Jean-Yves Le Drian with Federica Mogherini. ©Xaume Olleros/Bloomberg via Getty Images

SUDAN 21/07/2017

Trump makes Bashir pay for his neutrality regarding Doha

In extending the embargo against Sudan, the Trump administration punished one of the rare countries that haven't chosen its side in the conflict between Riyadh and Doha. President Al Bashir is seeking Arab backing. [...]

ANGOLA 18/07/2017

Dos Santos clan keeps tight reign over its diamonds

With president Jose Eduardo dos Santos about to step down from office, his clan is busy forming a strategy to make sure it keeps a firm hand over the country's strategic diamond industry. [...]

TANZANIA 18/07/2017

Camarco's PR baron tasked to stamp out Acacia crisis

Fledgling consultancy Camarco, which has been building a name for itself with strategic gold assignments across the continent, is now helping Acacia Mining take on Tanzania. [...]

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DJIBOUTI 21/07/2017

Rubis Energie plays its political wild card

The oil distribution group has seen all of its rivals off by cultivating its ties with the energy minister. [...]

ALGERIA 20/07/2017

Rahiel is victim of Tebboune clean-up

Mohamed El Amine Messaid's appointment as head of the private office of Abdelmajid Tebboune, which was officially announced by decree [...]

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SOMALILAND 21/07/2017

Kulmiye party cracks down on the media ahead of elections

MOROCCO 20/07/2017

No Hirak negotiations for Jamal Benomar

SOUTH AFRICA 18/07/2017

Peter Leon in Paris to quiet fears over new mining charter

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 11/07/2017

Total frustrated by ‘Ill-gotten gains' case

MOZAMBIQUE 11/07/2017

Anadarko still unable to sign on purchase contracts for Golfinho

TANZANIA 18/07/2017

Diplomats and miners lay into the government

Over the past few days, foreign diplomates in Tanzania have been busy setting up meetings to work out how they [...]

IVORY COAST 12/07/2017

Guillaume Soro shows his hand and the president takes umbrage

He may boast in interviews of his close relationship with the president, but the ambitions of the speaker of the National Assembly are an increasing source of irritation to the government. [...]

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DJIBOUTI 21/07/2017

How the boss of GSK hoodwinked the tax collector

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has uncovered proof of the financial shenanigans of Ahmed Osman Guelleh. [...]

MOROCCO 20/07/2017

Bioui lands Oued Ghiss dam contract as "Hirak" rages on

The popular uprising in the Rif has benefited Oriental region president Abdenbi Bioui…in his capacity as a businessman! According to [...]

MALAWI MOZAMBIQUE 18/07/2017

Globe Metals slips out of Chinese ECE's hands

China's state-owned group ECE has lost the court case it launched in Australia to regain control of junior Globe Metals. [...]

IVORY COAST 12/07/2017

Cocoa: Cargill leaves its French competitors trailing

The American trading company continues to dominate the sector after managing to buy up over 300,000 tonnes in the current season. [...]

NIGERIA 11/07/2017

Agip and Oando want NNPC to pay $573 million

Since mid-June, ENI's affiliate and Oando have been trying to have an arbitral ruling made in their favour against NNPC duly executed. [...]

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UGANDA 21/07/2017

Lwakataka, the "fisherman" who gives Museveni nightmares

Ponsanio Lwakataka, a former fisherman who joined Uganda's Internal Security Organisation (ISO) in 2006, gets more popular each time he [...]

AFRICA 18/07/2017

Paul Singer, debt hunter turned diamond's man

Mostly known in Africa for the epic battle he wages against countries whose debt he has bought, billionaire Paul Singer [...]

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MOROCCO 20/07/2017

Laila Ouachi kitesurfs without Richard Branson

MOROCCO 20/07/2017

Jerome Nouzarede loses his doctor-partners in Bouskoura clinic

IVORY COAST 12/07/2017

Toungara, an unknown at the head of Petro-Sea Logistics

GABON 12/07/2017

Rene Ndemezo'o Obiang, the master of self-reinvention

Rene Ndemezo'o Obiang continues at the age of 70 to excel in the art of political reinvention. Previously the election [...]

KENYA 11/07/2017

Mary Jane Mwangi on the ejector seat at NOCK

It looks as though Mary Jane Mwangi, the interim managing director of National Oil Corp of Kenya (NOCK) has lost [...]

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Special report EAST AFRICA HORN OF AFRICA 23/07/2017

Crisis in Qatar sowing dissent in Africa

More than a month into the embargo placed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia and its allies, most African states have sided with the Saudi camp, leaving just a few sitting [...]

Spotlight KENYA 21/07/2017