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Focus MOROCCO 24/02/2020

Naval Group and Piriou want to set up a shipyard to serve the Moroccan navy

ALGERIA 18/02/2020

How Patrick Pouyanné inadvertently led to Kamel-Eddine Chikhi's ousting from Sonatrach

Kamel-Eddine Chikhi only managed to hold on to the top seat at Sonatrach for just two short months. Behind his fleeting career at the top of the national oil firm lies a tug of war with the Algerian generals over [...]

ZIMBABWE 25/02/2020

Pouroulis family's platinum record in Harare

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES MOROCCO 20/02/2020

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan makes up with Mohammed VI and boosts the family business

AFRICA 18/02/2020

Tullow Oil's Dorothy Thompson flogs family jewels for cash

KENYA Corridors of power 14/02/2020

Kenyatta ignores NIS warnings over simmering political tensions

President Uhuru Kenyatta has no intention of dialling down his campaign to promote the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). This despite [...]

GUINEA 24/02/2020

Summa, WIETC and Sogea-Satom vie for Conakry Airport contract

Turkey's Summa, the Chinese company WIETC and France's Sogea-Satom are all bidding for the tender to expand Conakry Gbessia Airport. [...]

MOROCCO 21/02/2020

Rabat brings into service the two maritime surveillance aircraft it has bought from Leonardo

The Royal Moroccan Navy is to benefit from the arrival in service of two Beechcraft King Air 350 maritime patrol aircraft, which have been fitted with high-tech equipment supplied by Leonardo. [...]

Corridors of power

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MALAWI 25/02/2020

Lilongwe allows period of inaction on licences to win over miners

Taking the opposite stance to its northern neighbour Tanzania, which ditched them in 2017 (AMI 455), the Malawian government has [...]

Breaking newsIVORY COAST 21/02/2020

Nicolas Sarkozy receives red carpet treatment on business diplomacy mission

Ivorian officials have been treating Nicolas Sarkozy's private trip to Abidjan like a state visit. When he landed in the [...]

LIBYA 20/02/2020

Italians and Greeks clash over Libya

According to our sources in Brussels, Greece is already claiming the right to command the EUNAVFOR Med maritime operation off [...]

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TANZANIA 25/02/2020

Barrick and Bowmans lend state a hand in winning back miners

MOROCCO 20/02/2020

Mezian Benjelloun's arts and crafts museum runs into problems

FRANCE |SIERRA LEONE 19/02/2020

Paris to open diplomatic outpost in Freetown

ANGOLA 18/02/2020

Sonangol privatisation: behind the scenes of Lourenço's last chance operation

While the economy is continuing to suffer with the drop in national oil output, Luanda is busy preparing the sale of the state-owned firm in the background. Here's how. [...]

FRANCE MADAGASCAR 14/02/2020

Scattered Islands bring latent tensions to surface

Ever since the Madagascan president Andry Rajoelina, aka TGV, publicly urged Emmanuel Macron on 29 May 2019 during his visit to Paris ‘to find a solution for dealing with the issue of the Scattered Islands and returning them to Madagascar', [...]

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IVORY COAST 25/02/2020

Manganese leader Dharni Sampda grappling with family feud

Mounting tensions within the management of Indian group Dharni Sampda's Ivorian affiliate have flared into full blown warfare between the [...]

DRC 25/02/2020

Baiyin weighs merits of sustained open pit mining at Twangiza

The decision to place the Congolese gold mine Twangiza under care and maintenance until the end of October, as announced [...]

MOROCCO 20/02/2020

BMCE and CCCC still negotiating on prices at Tanger Tech

BMCE Bank and construction giant China Construction Communication Co (CCCC) have delayed until June the signing of a contract for [...]

News In Brief

IVORY COAST 25/02/2020

Fakhoury family gives mining a shot

CONGO 19/02/2020

Clan war at Pointe-Noire docks

GHANA 18/02/2020

Total could be tempted to give up on Anadarko's assets

ALGERIA 20/02/2020

Ahmed Karim Benmansour takes a back seat at Innomedia

Ahmed Karim Benmansour, the nephew of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is preparing to share control of his urban advertising group [...]

WEST AFRICA 19/02/2020

French private security firms home in on airports

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) guidelines recommending the privatisation of inspection and screening procedures have helped French operators to snap up contracts at African airports. [...]

ANGOLA 19/02/2020

In-house shake-up at Gemcorp, the state's favourite financier

Having become in just a few years the Angolan state's leading financial partner, the Russian-British investment firm has lost one of its key executives. [...]

ANGOLA 18/02/2020

Block 2/05: Amni hesitates, Somoil courted by trading giant

The Nigerian firm's position as Somoil's main partner on the block is looking shaky and could slip from its hands while another big player is ready pounce. [...]

UGANDA TURKEY 14/02/2020

Turkey's AKP marshals its pawns in Kampala

As organisations and businesses set up shop with the support of Istanbul, Fethullah Gülen's networks remain firmly in the Turkish government's firing line… [...]

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Power brokers

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DRC 19/02/2020

Freddy Kita Bukusu, minister of a thousand networks

The deputy minister for economic planning, Freddy Kita Bukusu, has been chosen to represent President Félix Tshisekedi in Malabo on [...]

News In Brief

TUNISIA 20/02/2020

Football lawyer Maher Somai sets up a national lawyers' association

ALGERIA 20/02/2020

Ali El Hamel hands over the reins at Tazliza mineral water company

TUNISIA 20/02/2020

The Bouchamaouis go for fast expansion of new KFC network

MOZAMBIQUE 18/02/2020

ENH: why did Omar Mitha step aside for Estevão Pale?

Omar Mitha's replacement as the chief executive of ENH had been on the cards since President Filipe Nyusi's re-election in [...]

TANZANIA 14/02/2020

Deusdedit Kakoko steers port of Dar to digital

Under pressure from the chair of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, Naghenjwa Kaboyoka, the director-general of the Tanzania Ports Authority [...]

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MALI Financing and advisory 25/02/2020

Bamako looking for help to lock in adoption of new mining code

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MD Services promotes mineral wealth to Canadians

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MADAGASCAR Supply Chain 25/02/2020

Child labour: MEPs add their voice to the code revision debate

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NIGERIA Supply Chain 25/02/2020

Refinery delays rack up as Kian Smith goes all in on gold permits

Kian Smith Trade & Co has still not opened its [...]

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