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Focus AFRICA 07/10/2019

Monaco Resources, the principality's mysterious African trading company

ETHIOPIA 04/10/2019

EPRDF to mutate into Ethiopian Prosperity Party

The EPRDF (Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front) coalition is to mutate into a single unified party called the Ethiopian Prosperity [...]

MOZAMBIQUE 04/10/2019

Russia snatches defence contract from Erik Prince

Having been supplanted by Russia, in mid-September Erik Prince's Frontier Service Group (FSG) withdrew the helicopters that it had deployed [...]

LIBYA 10/10/2019

Angela Merkel stymied over Libyan summit

Angela Merkel's efforts to regain the initiative on the Libyan question are marking time. According to our sources, the "international [...]

QATAR MAURITANIA 09/10/2019

Emir al-Thani courts Nouakchott

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz having abruptly severed diplomatic ties with Doha in June 2017, the oil-rich Gulf state is hoping the arrival of the new president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani will revive its relations with Mauritania. [...]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA 08/10/2019

ExxonMobil & Co: Trump worried about Obiang's thirst for oil independence

SENEGAL Exploration-production 08/10/2019

Sparks fly at BP boss Dudley's meeting with President Sall in NY

AFRICA 01/10/2019

JunHe and DeHeng open for business for Asian mining investors Free

The two Chinese law firms are working on building up their portfolio of Asian clients looking to invest in African mining. [...]

Corridors of power

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TUNISIA 10/10/2019

Tunisia's prime minister Youssef Chahed. ©Reuters

Extension likely for Chahed-Ennahda alliance

ANGOLA FRANCE 09/10/2019

Emmanuel Macron is set to visit Joao Lourenco in Angola early next year. ©Reuters

Hollande, Macron, Pouyanné: three presidents in Luanda

BENIN NIGER 08/10/2019

CNPC: secret financial arrangement afoot for export pipeline?

The Chinese major has already crunched the numbers to see how it will make a profit from the pipeline to Benin. The latest revelations. [...]

News In Brief

LIBYA 10/10/2019

Italian MEP Martusciello gets Al Houij into the European Parliament

AFRICA 09/10/2019

Control Risks, Abu Dhabi's private consultant for its African diplomacy

UGANDA 04/10/2019

Yoweri Museveni shores up his dynastic ambitions

MOZAMBIQUE 04/10/2019

FRELIMO manoeuvres to maintain its dominance

This time round, President Filipe Nyusi has opted to promote his new guard within FRELIMO in the run-up to the general election of 15 October. These rising figures reflect a shift in priorities. Although the party, which has governed Mozambique [...]

MAURITANIA 01/10/2019

Nouakchott keen to register list of strategic minerals

After holding on to his seat as Mauritania's minister of petroleum, energy and mining in the recent cabinet reshuffle (AEI [...]

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MOROCCO 10/10/2019

BL Harbert lands $181 million US Casablanca consulate contract

On September 26, the American State Department chose Birmingham, Alabama-based construction group BL Harbert to build its new consulate in [...]

ALGERIA 10/10/2019

Zergoun Green Energy and Mondragon struggle with solar plant

Zergoun Green Energy (ZGE) has been beset by mishaps as it tries to complete a plant for the assembly of [...]

Breaking newsKENYA 09/10/2019

NOCK board fires MD Mwangi

As we predicted (AEI 849), Mary Jane Mwangi is no longer in charge of the National Oil Corp of Kenya [...]

News In Brief

CENTRAL AFRICA 09/10/2019

After the Sahel, Turkish Airlines deploys in the south

IVORY COAST 08/10/2019

Cairn Energy comes out of period in purgatory to team up with Tullow Oil

MADAGASCAR 04/10/2019

Investment fund SONAPAR under close official scrutiny

AFRICA 09/10/2019

Struggling in Ivory Coast and Senegal, Heetch tries to bounce back

The French vehicle for hire firm Heetch, which recently closed down its service in Abidjan after barely three months, is hoping to expand its business into other French-speaking African countries. [...]

GABON 09/10/2019

Télésud bankruptcy a double blow for Pascaline

Two days after losing her title as representative of the president, Pascaline Bongo has seen the pan-African television company that she has been sponsoring for ten years cease trading. [...]

TANZANIA 08/10/2019

Shell/Equinor: dreaded contract renegotiations begin

According to our sources, the ministry of energy sent out a letter in mid-September to the vast majority of oil [...]

ETHIOPIA 04/10/2019

Big ambitions brewing for Axereal

The French cooperative Axereal is seeking to supply local malt to Ethiopian brewers. But it will need the resources to do so in order to meet local demand… [...]

GUINEA 01/10/2019

Operators from near and far interested in BSGR's former Simandou blocks

Other than a set of international mining giants, the bidding round launched by the Guinean government in July for the blocks formerly owned by Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) on the Simandou iron ore deposit has caught the attention of [...]

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Power brokers

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IVORY COAST 09/10/2019

Life difficult after football for Didier Drogba

Officially retired since the end of last year, the former star striker of the English football club Chelsea, Didier Drogba, [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 10/10/2019

Bennis hopes to regain control of the Gazelle d'Or in November

TUNISIA 10/10/2019

The stars of the Paris bar join the fight over Sam Zormati's aircraft

MOROCCO 10/10/2019

Anas Sefrioui goes into waste business to feed his cement plants

KENYA 08/10/2019

Mary Jane Mwangi's future at the helm of NOCK on tenterhooks

Although in theory her mandate as the managing director of the National Oil Corp of Kenya (NOCK) runs through to [...]

UGANDA 04/10/2019

Who is Stephen Chebrot, future ambassador in Doha?

In early September, parliament approved Stephen Chebrot's appointment as Uganda's first ambassador to Qatar. The embassy in Doha opened for [...]

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ALGERIA Business circles 10/10/2019

Egypt's MAN group breaks up with Senator Benkortbi Free

Egyptian powerline installation specialist MAN International Contracting has broken off its partnership with businessman-senator Noureddine Benkortbi. MAN International Algérie, a [...]

ALGERIA Business circles 10/10/2019

Tunisian-Algerian Maghreb Environmental Solutions to recycle waste from Sonatrach's TFT wells

Maghreb Environmental Solutions (MES) is to process and store waste [...]

LIBYA Business circles 10/10/2019

Tassili Media rolls out the red carpet for Mustafa Sanalla in Tunis

Libya's National oil Corp (NOC) chairman Mustafa Sanalla could take [...]

MOROCCO Power brokers 10/10/2019

Akhannouch has taken a stake in Institut Amadeus

The foreign affairs think-tank Institut Amadeus, which is headed by [...]

ALGERIA Power brokers 10/10/2019

Abdelmajid Tebboune recruits Boukrouh and Belkaim for his PR

Former prime minister Abdelmajid Tebboune, who is running in the [...]

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Russia snatches defence contract from Erik Prince

Angela Merkel stymied over Libyan summit

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Hollande, Macron, Pouyanné: three presidents in Luanda

CNPC: secret financial arrangement afoot for export pipeline?

Italian MEP Martusciello gets Al Houij into the European Parliament

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Investment fund SONAPAR under close official scrutiny

Struggling in Ivory Coast and Senegal, Heetch tries to bounce back

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