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Botswana was removed from the Financial Action Task Force's notorious grey list by the skin of its teeth last October and is now seeking to implement reforms it promised to the global money-laundering watchdog. New laws are planned to force companies to make public the names of those who benefit from them. [...]
Nigeria, whose case against JPMorgan is about to be heard in London, is doing its utmost to prove the bank was negligent over the transfer of $875m from state funds to Dan Etete's Malabu Oil & Gas ahead of the sale of OPL 245 block to Shell and ENI. It says the money was used to bribe Nigerian officials. [...]
The German-born businessman-geologist has a history of arranging mining deals in the DRC. Now he has joined Tantalex Resources, which is exploring for lithium in Manono, just next to the concessions held by a company he used to work for: AVZ Minerals. [...]
Burkina Faso withdrew Patel's permit for the Inata mine because it deemed his firm, Balaji, had neither spent enough money on it nor done enough work at the site. Patel is now pulling out all the stops to make sure the same thing doesn't happen at his Kalsaka gold mine. [...]
Following the dismissal of the managing director of the Sovereign Fund of #Djibouti in the second quarter of 2021, board meetings of the fund have become a rarity and the fund's management structure is hazy. https://t.co/9aclVVCehj
On 14 January, Morrocan agribusiness firm Forafric created a new subsidiary the Minoterie Epidor mill based in Fez. #Morocco https://t.co/G307qJCnbV
After having promised armoured vehicles to the Ghanaian army from Iveco in Brazil, the Israeli defence leader @ElbitSystemsLtd, backed by Tel Aviv, is completing the deal with hardware provided by General Dynamics. #Israel #Ghana https://t.co/Yb16Q5zMtj
