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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

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"Teodorin" lets the nation pay his interior decorator!

SPOTLIGHT NIGERIA 25/07/2017

While president Buhari's away, the oil barons will play

Tensions are rising in the country's oil sector in the power vacuum left by president Muhammadu Buhari after he eclipsed to London for medical treatment several weeks ago. At the start of his mandate in 2015, the head of the [...]

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25/07/2017

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

Qatari foreign minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani takes stock of support in Africa. ©Bloomberg

Crisis in Qatar sowing dissent in Africa

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 GABON 25/07/2017

Assala Energy struggles to close Shell purchase

Five months after being selected by Shell to pick up its assets in Gabon, Assala Energy and its shareholder Carlyle have their head on the chopping block in Libreville. [...]

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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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). And this despite an embarrassing [...]

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

ALGERIA 25/07/2017

Kaddour takes to Sonatrach's organisation chart with an axe

NIGERIA | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 25/07/2017

ExxonMobil gives up on block 2 in JDZ

UGANDA 25/07/2017

Why the government is dragging its feet to approve deal between Tullow and Cnooc-Total

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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NIGERIA 25/07/2017

Alison-Madueke's taste for luxury upsets Washington

Yachts, apartments, Louis XVI buffets, and the list goes on. The American government wants to seize all of the gifts given to the former Abuja oil minister by Nigerian oil firms. [...]

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. [...]

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CHAD 25/07/2017

Ahmat Gadam Hogossi picks up top seat at oil ministry

Chad's president has once again decided to reshuffle the country's oil portfolio leadership. New permanent secretary Ahmat Gadam Hogossi was [...]

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 [...]

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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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Spotlight IVORY COAST 26/07/2017

Ouattara stokes hostilities between Soro and Bakayoko with 2020 in mind

By appointing Hamed Bakayoko as minister of defence in the government reshuffle of 19 July, Alassane Ouattara has ratcheted up the tensions and divisions between his two putative heirs apparent, at the risk of sparking a political crisis. Here's why. ‘Sworn [...]

IVORY COAST 26/07/2017