To launch its luxury tourism projects, Ali Bongo's government has turned to the former vice president of FC Barcelona Jaume Ferrer Graupera, who has roped several of the Catalan football club's star strikers into his Gabonese adventure. [...]
Health minister Ali Zanaty has succeeded in getting 100,000 doses of the Sputnik-V vaccine to Tripoli thanks to eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar's foreign allies. Zanaty is one of Haftar's supporters in the governent of national unity. [...]
Thanks to the boom in gold prices, two new gold refineries are set to open in Ghana, while applications for gold trading licences are increasing and local traders are opening companies in Dubai to market their stocks. [...]
French authorities have informed one of the daughters of Félicien Kabuga, the alleged financial mastermind of the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda, that her application for French nationality has been rejected. She has been living in #France for 27 years. https://t.co/GbGHRZ3G2y
To encourage #France and the #EuropeanUnion to recognise its sovereignty over #WesternSahara, a step already taken by the US, #Morocco will be replacing its otherwise engaged ambassadors in Paris and Brussels. https://t.co/9sjkYHUywY
📣 #Kenya has officially asked the @WorldBank for further financial assistance, while the #IMF (@IMFNews) has approved a new eurobond. A new loan of $750m has just been announced, but in reality the country hopes to borrow a great deal more than that. https://t.co/ENdwRUI4T2
