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Focus UNITED STATES MAURITANIA NIGER 09/09/2019

Khalidou Moussa Ba builds for the Pentagon all over West Africa

MOZAMBIQUE 06/09/2019

Erik Prince makes up for army shortcomings

South Africans have stepped in to supply the army with two helicopters, and Erik Prince is in the thick of it. [...]

LIBYA 12/09/2019

New Italian government slides over to Khalifa Haftar

The appointment of Giuseppe Conte's new government on September 5 could provoke a veritable aggiornamento in Italian policy on Libya. [...]

ALGERIA 12/09/2019

Ahmed Gaid Salah plays his last cards against the hirak

Map of the future rapid bus routes in the Dakar conurbation.

SENEGAL Document 16/09/2019

France's Meridiam and Madrid's EMT vie for Dakar Bus Rapid Transit project

Two international consortia are in the running to take on the BRT contract in Senegal's capital. [...]

GABON 11/09/2019

Ali and Pascaline Bongo - a rock and a hard place for Delta Synergie

MOZAMBIQUE 03/09/2019

Rio Tinto shareholders not ready to call it quits on coal

MAURITANIA |SENEGAL 13/09/2019

Exclusive: Kosmos sells to United Arab Emirate firm

Corridors of power

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Breaking newsIVORY COAST 13/09/2019

Alassane Ouattara sends Laurent Gbagbo's speech writer to Algiers

The 2020 presidential election campaign has got off to a good start. To deprive Laurent Gbagbo's Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) [...]

LIBYA 12/09/2019

Khalifa Haftar lacks manpower on the ground

The forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) gained a little more ground in the Espiaa district in southern [...]

UGANDA 10/09/2019

Total/Cnooc case: how URA and Tullow took part in the fiasco with Yoweri Museveni

Tullow Oil has clashed with the Ugandan authorities as the cracks begin to appear in the crude oil export project. [...]

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MOROCCO 12/09/2019

Mouad el Jamai takes action on Jerada's deadly coal mines

CONGO-B 11/09/2019

FBI trains Congolese gendarmes

SOUTH SUDAN 06/09/2019

The war is not over

DJIBOUTI 06/09/2019

Murky visibility around presidential and air force flights

According to documents obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the aircraft of the government and of the Forces aeriennes djiboutiennes, the air force of the Forces armees djiboutiennes (FAD), are being managed in a highly irregular fashion. In both cases, [...]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 03/09/2019

Bangui preens feathers to bring back mining firms

Bangui is preparing to play host to a mines fair to showcase Central African Republic's mineral wealth from December 5 [...]

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MOROCCO 12/09/2019

Yellowrock to play banking role among struggling milling firms

Third-ranking Moroccan cereals trader Yellowrock hopes it has found the financial solution which will enable it to overtake market leaders [...]

MOROCCO 12/09/2019

CDG plans to outsource pension fund management

The Caisse de Dépot et de Gestion (CDG), which manages pension fund RCAR (Regime Collectif d'Allocation de Retraite), via its [...]

CAMEROON 11/09/2019

Two contenders in running for Douala container terminal

On 17 September, the Port autonome de Douala will announce who is taking over the Douala container terminal concession. After failing to get shortlisted, Bollore is battling to stay in the running. [...]

News In Brief

CONGO-K 11/09/2019

Sicomines debts reach $2.56 billion

NIGERIA 10/09/2019

How Muhammadu Buhari found a spot for his oil allies Ogah and Jeddi Agba

MOZAMBIQUE 06/09/2019

McDermott to benefit from US Exim Bank investments

CONGO-K 11/09/2019

Advisors queue up to lure back IMF

All the big-name advisory banks are laying siege to the presidential palace in the hope of winning the contract to advise the DRC on its relations with the IMF. [...]

CONGO-K 10/09/2019

Total and Tullow's approach for blocks 1, 2 and 3 murkier and murkier

Total's ambiguous ambitions for its future in exploration in the country is making the Congolese authorities' heads spin. As for, Tullow Oil, the junior has already taken a swipe at the new government, allegedly with the French major's approval. The [...]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 10/09/2019

Lowdown on mystery investor behind GEPetrol's stake in Vaalco's block P

American junior Vaalco is being driven to despair by the slow pace of the Equatorial Guinean government's handling of block [...]

SOUTH SUDAN 06/09/2019

Is Kapoeta governor's grip on local business under threat?

The governance of Louis Lobong Lojore, who has built up an impressive business empire in his state, could be tainted by a new scandal. [...]

ZAMBIA 03/09/2019

The main areas of manganese mining in Zambia.

Mining and trading rush on manganese

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Power brokers

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CAMEROON 11/09/2019

Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh governs by correspondence

Addressed to ministers and heads of civil service departments alike, the letters from the president's secretary-general, Ferdinand Ngoh, which invariably [...]

News In Brief

ALGERIA 12/09/2019

Now the Benhamadis lower their visibility at Travocovia

MOROCCO 12/09/2019

Dounia Taarji wants to set up a first UCITS for the Hassan II fund

MOROCCO 12/09/2019

Mohamed H'Midouche keeps up his African contacts with IGD

NIGERIA 10/09/2019

New minister of oil-rich Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, highly contested

The new minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Obot Akpabio, appointed on August 21, has established his legitimacy and authority [...]

DJIBOUTI 06/09/2019

Mohamed Abdoulkader Moussa Helem in firing line

This summer the minister for urban planning and the environment, Mohamed Abdoulkader Moussa Helem, sparked tensions within the Union de [...]

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NAMIBIA Infrastructure & Power Infrastructure & Power 16/09/2019

Eos Capital aims for $100m for infrastructure by the end of 2020

Initially scheduled for early 2019, the delayed launch by Namibia's Eos Capital of its infra-structure fund is now due in October. It is expected to reach up to $100 million next year. [...]

GUINEA Infrastructure & Power Infrastructure & Power 16/09/2019

Necotrans goes to Washington

In liquidation for almost two years, the French logistics group has resumed its legal battle for compensation over the 2011 snatching of its Port of Conakry concession, which was given to Bollore. [...]

LIBYA Business circles 12/09/2019

Omar Dorda and Crowley go into consulting with Libya Desk Free

A veritable unknown flying object has landed among the small group of consulting companies active in Libya. According to our [...]

LIBYA Power brokers 12/09/2019

Future of Operation Sophia hangs in the balance

The future of the EUNAVFOR Med maritime force, aka Operation [...]

TUNISIA Power brokers 12/09/2019

Ali El Omrane hosts Mourou's campaign meeting in the Paris suburbs

After having gone walk-about in Paris's 17th arrondissement on September [...]

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Consultants and lawyers already winning in Aziz vs Bouamatou war

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Erik Prince makes up for army shortcomings

New Italian government slides over to Khalifa Haftar

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Rio Tinto shareholders not ready to call it quits on coal

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Sicomines debts reach $2.56 billion

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