Spotlight
The ousted president did not warn his Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée party when he made a recent bid to remobilise his supporters. Some party bigwigs are annoyed at the move as it jeopardised their own attempts to discreetly revive the erstwhile leading political movement.
Transition in Guinea
After a very heated period, tensions between the junta and private operators at the huge Simandou iron ore project are subsiding. Rio Tinto looks like choosing the French agency Concerto for its PR. https://t.co/YsYnLPyn2C
The DRC has acquired a Soviet-made Ilyushin IL-76 military transport plane. It is still unclear what it will be used for, but the army is seriously lacking aircraft of this type. https://t.co/GTYmY9gmz1
The UK Foreign Office is honing its new African diplomatic strategy and has asked the British consulting firm Adam Smith International to help develop a strategy to improve border security in the Horn of Africa. https://t.co/Ull8pGYUol
After a very heated period, tensions between the junta and private operators at the huge Simandou iron ore project are subsiding. Rio Tinto looks like choosing the French agency Concerto for its PR. https://t.co/YsYnLPyn2C
The DRC has acquired a Soviet-made Ilyushin IL-76 military transport plane. It is still unclear what it will be used for, but the army is seriously lacking aircraft of this type. https://t.co/GTYmY9gmz1
The UK Foreign Office is honing its new African diplomatic strategy and has asked the British consulting firm Adam Smith International to help develop a strategy to improve border security in the Horn of Africa. https://t.co/Ull8pGYUol