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21/11/2019 GABON -
Santullo case Parisian arbitrators give their verdict

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Emerging Capital Partners sells off Orabank to Ivorian state

LIBYA 21/11/2019

Khalifa Haftar looks for a prime minister in Abu Dhabi

Bogged down as he is in the suburbs of Tripoli after a seven-month offensive, Khalifa Haftar is now considering a more political solution involving the creation of a new government. [...]

DRC 20/11/2019

Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence

DRC 19/11/2019

How ENI plans to snatch blocks 1 and 2 from right under Total's nose

All it took was just one visit from ENI chairman Claudio Descalzi to President Félix Tshisekedi on September 13 for the wheels to start turning on the Italian major's return to the DRC. [...]

Focus AFRICA 18/11/2019

Russia's electoral "experts" aim to conquer Africa

MOZAMBIQUE Corridors of power 15/11/2019

French to help with surveillance in Cabo Delgado?

With the insurrection in the north gaining momentum, the Mozambican intelligence services see in Paris a useful partner to supplement Russian military aid. [...]

IVORY COAST 18/11/2019

Natixis takes the lead in Abidjan metro financing

After several months of delays by Ivorian authorities and French companies, the financing of Abidjan's metro is finally falling into place. [...]

NIGER 12/11/2019

Uranium: Rosatom full steam ahead while Orano rubber stamps cutbacks

Although the French nuclear group Orano (formerly Areva) has decided to make drastic cuts to its activities in Niger, the Niamey authorities have found a new potential ally to develop the country's uranium resources: Russian industrial Rosatom. Summit sessions [...]

SUDAN 15/11/2019

Brussels diagnoses its Sudanese patient

Corridors of power

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TUNISIA 21/11/2019

Youssef Chahed seals military deal with Ankara

Youssef Chahed was keen to set in stone the military alliance between Tunis and Ankara before handing over as prime [...]

IVORY COAST 20/11/2019

ESL & Network hopeful Soro will sign on dotted line for 2020

The Parisian lobbying firm ESL has discreetly approached the ex-speaker of parliament Guillaume Soro in recent weeks to offer its services to him for his likely presidential run in October 2020. [...]

SENEGAL 19/11/2019

SNE: why was Woodside's Peter Coleman in a secret meeting with Macky Sall?

The partners of Sangomar offshore have struck a deal with Dakar that finds a way around obstacles still holding back the development of SNE. [...]

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MOROCCO 21/11/2019

Mustapha El Khalfi tipped as head of new PJD think-tank

SENEGAL 20/11/2019

Regional express six months behind schedule

UGANDA 15/11/2019

Kampala seeks Emirati assistance on cybersecurity

SOMALILAND 15/11/2019

Nairobi builds diplomatic bridges with Hargeisa

With relations already strained between Nairobi and Mogadishu due to their border dispute, Kenyatta has riled Farmajo by inviting Musa Bihi Abdi. [...]

DRC 12/11/2019

MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

After resuming its diamond extraction activities in September, the Congolese state-owned MIBA (Société minière de Bakwanga) may have to already [...]

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Breaking newsGABON 21/11/2019

Santullo case Parisian arbitrators give their verdict

Officially, both sides have won! This morning, the government-controlled Gabonese newspaper L'Union was quick to qualify the arbitral ruling of [...]

MOROCCO 21/11/2019

Moncef Belkhayat opposed by Moulay Hafid Elalamy and Aziz Akhannouch for CGEM top job

Businessman Moncef Belkhayat has joined the battle for the top job at the CGEM (MC 1358) following the resignation of [...]

MOROCCO 21/11/2019

Tense talks between Mohamed Bensalah and Macky Sall

Holmarcom group chairman and chief executive Mohamed Hassan Bensalah managed to obtain a private meeting with Senegalese head of state [...]

News In Brief

IVORY COAST 20/11/2019

Pathé vs Majestic: screen wars in Abidjan

AFRICA 19/11/2019

Lukoil and Litasco hunt down contracts together

UGANDA 15/11/2019

Electricity alliance between UETCL and Ethiopia

Breaking newsWEST AFRICA 20/11/2019

Emerging Capital Partners sells off Orabank to Ivorian state

On 14 November, Vincent Le Guennou, one of the two co-directors of the private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), [...]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 19/11/2019

Trident/Kosmos Energy duo in full blown cold war

While the Kosmos Energy and Trident Energy duo that owns Equatorial Guinean block S may have recently discovered oil on [...]

KENYA 19/11/2019

Politics could get the better of Total's interests in Lokichar

The Kenyan treasury is being extremely slow in implementing tax changes negotiated with exasperated majors. [...]

ETHIOPIA 15/11/2019

Italians queue up to do business in Addis

Five months on from the EU-Ethiopia Business Forum in Brussels at which Italian firms were absent, the Italian Trade Agency has decided to step up its game. [...]

BURKINA FASO 12/11/2019

Ouagadougou pushes local business leaders into Kiéré manganese

While the Burkina Faso authorities want the Tambao project to be taken over by a foreign firm (AMI 449), they [...]

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Power brokers

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MALI 20/11/2019

Malick Coulibaly burnishes his anti-corruption credentials in Bamako

Anti-corruption dossiers have been piling up in the in tray of the justice minister Malick Coulibaly since his appointment in [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 21/11/2019

Elalamy to audit cigarette groups SMT, NATC, EMID and Habanos

TUNISIA 21/11/2019

Yassine Brahim moonlights for Blackfin Capital Partners in Paris

MOROCCO 21/11/2019

Ex-Beninese minister Soulé Mana Lawani looks for solar business

NIGERIA 19/11/2019

Muhammadu Indimi clears out the ranks at Oriental Energy

The Nigerian billionaire oil tycoon Muhammadu Indimi - whose son Ahmed Indimi is married to President Muhammadu Buhari's daughter Zahra [...]

EAST AFRICA 15/11/2019

How Workeneh Gebeyehu secured IGAD post

On 7 November, the former Ethiopian foreign minister Workeneh Gebeyehu, who since March had been heading up the UN office [...]

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ALGERIA Business circles Infrastructure & Power 21/11/2019

CSCEC replaces OHL on Annaba-Oued Zied railway line Free

Chinese construction giant CSCEC (China State Construction Engineering Corp.), which is used to carrying out big prestige projects, is breaking [...]

TUNISIA Business circles 21/11/2019

Germany companies come looking for waste water contracts

The German-Tunisian Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the German [...]

TUNISIA Business circles Infrastructure & Power 21/11/2019

Jilani Attia's ETEP wins Tozeur-Nefta Airport rehabilitation contract

The civil aviation and airports office, OACA, awarded a 27.2-million-dinar [...]

ALGERIA Power brokers 21/11/2019

Fouad Ferhat takes charge of business relations with the United States

A few weeks ago, Fouad Ferhat took up his new [...]

TUNISIA Power brokers 21/11/2019

Kaïs Saïed stand-offish about francophone summit

Preparations for the Organisation Internationale de la Francophone (OIF) summit [...]

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