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20/11/2019 WEST AFRICA -
Emerging Capital Partners sells off Orabank to Ivorian state

DRC President Félix Tshisekedi at Paris Peace Forum, November 12, 2019. ©Reuters

DRC 20/11/2019

Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence

In contrast to his predecessor Joseph Kabila, who cut military and intelligence ties with the West, Félix Tshisekedi has reopened channels of cooperation on security with Paris, Brussels and Washington [...]

Focus AFRICA 18/11/2019

Russia's electoral "experts" aim to conquer Africa

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. [...]

LIBYA 14/11/2019

Misrata's Ahmed Miitig tries to woo Paris with contracts

The government of national accord (GNA) in Tripoli is using business to try to improve relations with Paris, which it [...]

MOZAMBIQUE 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. [...]

SUDAN 15/11/2019

Brussels diagnoses its Sudanese patient

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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. [...]

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SENEGAL 20/11/2019

Regional express six months behind schedule

UGANDA 15/11/2019

Kampala seeks Emirati assistance on cybersecurity

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Abderraouf Betbaïeb gets "family" presidential post

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

STAFIM board member Sonia Khechine gets into the ARP

Whereas several business people have had to give up their seats in the Assembly of the Representatives of the People [...]

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 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), [...]

ANGOLA 20/11/2019

Gemcorp vs Gaydamak: the new world eclipses the old

In the government's good books, the investment manager Gemcorp has snatched a giant contract for a refinery from under the noses of Arcadi Gaydamak, a symbol of the Dos Santos years. [...]

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 [...]

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

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. [...]

MADAGASCAR 15/11/2019

The detours of Andry Rajoelina's Turkish jet

Andry Rajoelina is reluctant to purchase a presidential jet and in the meantime has a Turkish private jet waiting on the tarmac at Ivato for him. [...]

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Abdeslam Ahizoune plunges into Casablanca's dustbins

Maroc Télécom chairman Abdeslam Ahizoune has put on a new hat... that of binman! The sudden departure from Morocco of waste collection market leader Derichebourg has forced the former telecommunications minister to fly to the aid of his son Youssef [...]

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

IVORY COAST 20/11/2019

Serge Thiémélé strikes out on his own

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Omar Alaoui moves from the CGEM to ESL & Network

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Former TFBank chief executive Houssein Mouelhi turns consultant

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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IVORY COAST Business circles 20/11/2019

Second privatisation for the soldier and policeman's bank

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WEST AFRICA Business circles 20/11/2019

Duel in the skies between Air Sénégal and Air Côte d'Ivoire

To counter the new services of Air Sénégal (WAN 805), [...]

ANGOLA Business circles 20/11/2019

Unitel, Isabel dos Santos' latest legal skirmish

Continuing with her world forum tour (WAN 811), Isabel dos [...]

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