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Focus AFRICA Document 21/01/2020

Monaco Resources struggles to hide its secrets

TANZANIA Document 17/01/2020

Rail projects heading for the buffers?

DJIBOUTI 17/01/2020

US base faces twin challenges of Al-Shabaab and China

The geostrategic location of Djibouti means that it is the trade hub of the Horn as well being the nexus [...]

LIBYA Corridors of power 23/01/2020

Ghassan Salamé military commission hits trouble

With just a few hours to go to the meeting in Geneva of the joint military commission, which is supposed [...]

DRC 27/01/2020

Voltalia vies for northern mini-grids contract

Hitherto little-known in DRC, the French electricity producer is to submit a bid to build three solar plants and local distribution systems in the Mongala, Sud-Ubangi, and Haut-Uele provinces. [...]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 21/01/2020

Zafiro: ExxonMobil reveals top picks to Gabriel Obiang

The American major has shortlisted three firms for the project to take over the country's largest oil field. [...]

KENYA 21/01/2020

January 27: a date set in stone for Tullow/Africa Oil/Total

ANGOLA 14/01/2020

Who's calling the shots on the mining bid?

A panel of five Angolan administration veterans will be examining the bids of the eleven companies that took part in [...]

MALI 24/01/2020

Abu Dhabi takes its Streit armoured vehicles into the Sahel

Corridors of power

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Breaking newsWEST AFRICA 24/01/2020

Guinea-Bissau leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo in Paris to meet Nicolas Sarkozy

In the early afternoon of 22 January in a lounge at the Paris hotel Claridge, the former French president Nicolas [...]

TUNISIA 23/01/2020

Kaïs Saïed's unlikely choice of PM

Elyes Fakhfakh, who was charged by Kaïs Saïed on January 20 with forming a new government, will have to fight [...]

ANGOLA DRC 21/01/2020

Angolan oil blocks contested by DRC ©Africa Energy Intelligence/IndigoPublications 2020

Exxon, Chevron and BP's blocks: João Lourenço hoodwinks Félix Tshisekedi

News In Brief

MOROCCO |MAURITANIA 23/01/2020

Mohamed Ould Ghazouani to build himself a new embassy

GUINEA 22/01/2020

Legislative setback after Alpha Condé fails in Abidjan

ERITREA |ETHIOPIA 17/01/2020

Addis recalls its ambassador to Asmara

ETHIOPIA 17/01/2020

General election: Abiy Ahmed Ali keeps close tabs on Somali and Oromo regions

Although the next general election, initially scheduled for 20 May, will now probably be held on 16 August, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali already knows that he needs to focus his efforts on Oromia National Regional State (ONRS) and still [...]

GHANA 14/01/2020

Offshore exploration reform sends miners heading to Liberia

The Ghanaian government's review of its offshore mining exploration legislation has taken the wind out of the sails of operators [...]

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Business circles

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MOROCCO 23/01/2020

TGCC, Jet and SGTM target Mohammed VI's "social" PPPs

A year after Mohammed VI called before parliament for the launch of "public-private partnerships (PPP) in the social domain", the national construction market leaders TGCC, Jet Contractors and SGTM, which rely heavily on public sector orders, are looking forward to [...]

MOROCCO 23/01/2020

Ex-royal steward Zouhair Fassi Fehri prepares for big year with CMS

This year promises to be highly profitable for small construction and engineering firm Construction Management Services (CMS) thanks to its [...]

IVORY COAST 22/01/2020

Tokyo set to return to shores of Ébrié lagoon

With the Chinese breaking into the Ivorian market, Tokyo is angling for several large-scale projects and is using its development agency JICA and JBIC bank as tools of persuasion. [...]

News In Brief

GABON 22/01/2020

Nourredine Bongo strengthens ties with AFC

CONGO 21/01/2020

Marine XI: Mercuria operating on autopilot

DJIBOUTI 17/01/2020

Tax hikes in store to cover treasury shortfall

GABON 22/01/2020

Scorpion inquiry looks into government arrears

The Scorpion anti-corruption drive is now focusing on the sensitive subject of how well-connected companies succeeded in obtaining payment of arrears owed to them by the government. [...]

AFRICA 21/01/2020

Boru Energy and Total: a marriage of convenience?

Total chairman and chief executive officer Patrick Pouyanné is keeping a very close eye on how Aidan Heavey's new firm [...]

SENEGAL MAURITANIA 21/01/2020

BP's attempts to save Tortue gas purchase deal

British major BP, which will be selling gas from the first phase of the field, is applying maximum pressure on Sall and Ghazouani. [...]

KENYA 17/01/2020

Brookside, KCB and Equity Bank look DRC-wards

The presidential family is spearheading the expansionist drive of Kenyan entrepreneurs who are now looking to francophone Africa. [...]

GUINEA 14/01/2020

Ahmet Calik's mining projects. ©Indigo Publications

Turkish tycoon and Erdogan pal, Ahmet Calik embarks on mining adventure

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Power brokers

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IVORY COAST 22/01/2020

Inza Fofana becomes Ouattara's go-to man for security

In recent months, the Unité de lutte contre le grande banditisme (ULGB) commanded by Colonel Inza Fofana, which is based [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 23/01/2020

Abderrahim Bendaou takes over Doblali's butter empire

ALGERIA 23/01/2020

Société Générale Maritime boss Mohamed Dib under investigation

MOROCCO 23/01/2020

El Mechrek's RNI mayor Yassir Kandil sets up new irrigation company

ANGOLA 21/01/2020

Sonangol USA: Elma Almeida, M. Vicente's unsinkable advisor

Most of the senior management in place at Sonangol under former President José Eduardo Dos Santos have been sacked since [...]

KENYA 17/01/2020

Ricardo Badoer throws in towel against Sumac

The Dubai-based businessman Ricardo Badoer is now at odds with the board of Sumac Microfinance Bank (SMB) and is looking [...]

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IVORY COAST Infrastructure & Power 27/01/2020

Abidjan metro's cohabitation with Sitarail still unresolved

Railway operator Sitarail, a subsidiary of Bolloré Transports & Logistics, is still waiting for the results of an impact assessment [...]

MALI Infrastructure & Power 27/01/2020

AMEA Power wants to build a solar farm near Bamako

The Malian government supports the Emirati renewable energy firm in its wish to develop a 50 MW plant, but Energie du Mali's disastrous finances could throw shade on the plan. [...]

RWANDA Infrastructure & Power 27/01/2020

French businessman set to mount forgery case against Omnicane over equity dilution

Accusing the Mauritian sugar firm trying to sideline him in a Rwandan hydro power project, Jacques Ntogue decides to take his partner to court. [...]

AFRICA Business circles 27/01/2020

Cathay AfricInvest Innovation bets big on fintech

The new venture fund recently created jointly by Cathay Innovation and AfricInvest is expected to invest in Migo and KaiOS. [...]

ALGERIA Business circles 23/01/2020

MSC takes Algeria to ICSID to try to recover its dividends Free

Shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is bringing out the big guns to try to obtain the dividends generated by [...]

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