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Abdelkrim Zbidi submitted his candidacy to the 2019 Tunisian presidential election on August 7.

TUNISIA 22/08/2019

Zbidi spearheads Sahelians' comeback dreams

GABON Corridors of power 12/06/2019

Ali Bongo due to meet IMF in September

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has released only $395.9 million of the $642 million package originally agreed with Gabon, is preparing to make a fresh payment [...]

LIBYA 22/08/2019

UNSMIL freezes its private sector security contracts

Paradoxically, the chaotic security situation in Libya is taking a heavy toll on private foreign security companies. Following the August [...]

Focus ALGERIA CHINA IRAN UNITED KINGDOM 29/07/2019

Sonatrach caught in the crossfire between London and Tehran in the Strait of Hormuz

ALGERIA 22/08/2019

Charef-Eddine Amara takes over from Hamid Melzi at SIH

The difficulties of Hamid Melzi, former head of Residence d'Etat Sahel (also called Club des Pins), where all the leading [...]

IVORY COAST 24/07/2019

Trump moves in to counter Moscow and Beijing

MOZAMBIQUE 23/07/2019

TechnipFMC, Fluor and JGC create services colossus

French-American oil services firm TechnipFMC has roped in two heavyweight partners to win new projects in Mozambique where it already [...]

Corridors of power

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ALGERIA 22/08/2019

Benhamza is Gaid Salah's business "angel"

Colonel Nabil Benhamza has been appointed during the summer head of the business monitoring service at the Interior Security Directorate [...]

CONGO-K 30/07/2019

Felix Tshisekedi gives centre stage to diamonds from Kasai stronghold

President Felix Tshisekedi's arrival in power in Kinshasa has had a profound effect on the country's diamond sector. For years largely neglected by the powers that be, this industry now has the head of state's full attention. Diamonds from his [...]

GABON 24/07/2019

Ambitions rife at presidential palace

While the Bongo family prepares for the Gabonese president's media comeback, several figures are honing their image as the man for the future. [...]

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MOROCCO 22/08/2019

Palace-friendly magazine La Semaine du Maroc will not appear

AFRICA 24/07/2019

G7 in Biarritz: Macron plays the African card

DJIBOUTI 19/07/2019

Why Ismail Omar Guelleh supported China's candidate for FAO

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 23/07/2019

Teodorin Obiang liability sends oil firms packing

Equatorial Guinea's minister of mines, industry and energy Gabriel Obiang Lima is finding it hard to secure takers for the 25 new offshore blocks as oil firms loose trust in the stability of the regime. The high probability that President [...]

AFRICA RUSSIA 19/07/2019

Alpha Conde, visiting Vladimir Putin in 2017 here, urges Somaliland to develop ties with Moscow. ©Kremlin/All Rights Reserved

Alpha Conde, Putin's middleman for Somaliland

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MOROCCO 22/08/2019

Boston Consulting set to lose MAD 5m as Vision 2020 gets chop

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will probably have to forget about the 5 million dirham it is claiming from the Ministry [...]

ALGERIA 22/08/2019

Chelghoum wins ADE contract despite police investigation

Businessman Djamel Eddine Chelghoune, whose public sector contract awards have been under investigation by the Bab Jdid criminal police in [...]

MALI 30/07/2019

Abdul Jabbar Al Sayegh tightens grip of Kodieran gold

While only recently the majority owner of Kodieran mine operator, Wassoul'Or, Abdul Jabbar Al Sayegh has been active in Mali's gold sector for years. [...]

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TANZANIA 30/07/2019

Acacia does not rule out shelving operations in North Mara

GABON 24/07/2019

Brice Laccruche to meet Eramet

GABON |NIGERIA |TANZANIA 23/07/2019

Maurel & Prom replaces Michel Hochard with another former Total name

CONGO-K 30/07/2019

With Lualaba Copper Smelter, CNMC takes early hold of ERG copper

Interested in purchasing Kazakh firm ERG's mines, the Chinese group CNMC has already found a way to get its hands on the copper by promising to transform it with its future smelter. [...]

SENEGAL 24/07/2019

Air Senegal takes on Ethiopian Airlines and Air Burkina

The Senegalese national airline is launching two new routes in the sub-region in an attempt to counter Ethiopian Airlines, even though it may be a loss-making venture. [...]

ANGOLA 24/07/2019

Erik Prince drums up business for Frontier Services

The logistics firm Frontier Services, founded by Erik Prince and controlled by China's Citic, has made a series of business proposals to the Angolan government. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN 23/07/2019

Trading audit clearly points finger at BB Energy and Trafigura

The audit launched in late June ( AEI 844) to examine the crude oil pre-sale deals signed in 2018 under [...]

DJIBOUTI 19/07/2019

French firms battle to supply energy

Engie is vying with Akuo Energy for energy contracts, but the Djiboutian authorities have several other irons in the fire. [...]

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IVORY COAST 24/07/2019

Souleymane Kamarate Kone targeted by presidency

Nicknamed ‘Soul to Soul', Guillaume Soro's powerful head of protocol Souleymane Kamarate Kone was recently expelled from his official residence [...]

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MOROCCO 22/08/2019

Chamberlain El Alaoui sets up Bayat Project in Tangiers

MOROCCO 22/08/2019

Journalist Nadia Lamlili joins OCP's PR team in Paris

TUNISIA 22/08/2019

Hamadi ben Sedrine hands over shipping agency TSA to his son

KENYA 23/07/2019

Could Josphat Nanok become Ruto's future oil boss in 2022?

The politically prominent Turkana County governor, Josphat Nanok, is working on building his national standing. The long-term rival of Kenyan [...]

UGANDA 19/07/2019

Gordon Wavamunno unites Buganda against Museveni

The law passed in late June targeting property owners has radicalised the until now apolitical entrepreneurs of Buganda and turned [...]

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TUNISIA Business circles 22/08/2019

State starts breaking up Chafik Jarraya's business empire Free

Prime minister Youssef Chahed does not intend to wait for Chafik Jarraya to be convicted to start breaking up his [...]

MOROCCO Business circles 22/08/2019

Aksal extends its presence in the malls business

Aksal, the holding company owned by Salwa Idrissi Akhannouch, wife [...]

TUNISIA Business circles 22/08/2019

Why TFBank was taken over by BH at a knock-down price

The details of the take-over of Paris-based, state-owned bank Tunisian [...]

LIBYA Power brokers 22/08/2019

Aoun al Ferjani returns to favour with Khalifa Haftar

General Khalifa Haftar carried out a discreet reorganisation of his [...]

TUNISIA Power brokers 22/08/2019

Washington revives its police academy project

Plans to build a police academy with American funds in [...]

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