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Focus AFRICA 18/11/2019

Russia's electoral "experts" aim to conquer Africa

Although controversial in Russia itself, Russian electoral know-how has become an export product, notably in Africa. Russian pollsters, consultants and analysts are besieging African presidencies with offers of opinion polls and vote surveillance techniques, which they present as antidotes to Western interference. [...]

IVORY COAST 18/11/2019

Natixis takes the lead in Abidjan metro financing

After several months of delays by Ivorian authorities and French companies, the financing of Abidjan's metro is finally falling into place. [...]

Abadalla Hamdok, Sudan's Prime Minister, can rely on EU's support. ©Reuters

SUDAN 15/11/2019

Brussels diagnoses its Sudanese patient

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has gained exclusive access to the findings of the European Union (EU) delegation that visited Khartoum from 30 to 31 October to assess the situation and the needs of the government of Abdalla Hamdok [...]

MOZAMBIQUE Corridors of power 15/11/2019

French to help with surveillance in Cabo Delgado?

With the insurrection in the north gaining momentum, the Mozambican intelligence services see in Paris a useful partner to supplement Russian military aid. [...]

LIBYA 14/11/2019

Misrata's Ahmed Miitig tries to woo Paris with contracts

The government of national accord (GNA) in Tripoli is using business to try to improve relations with Paris, which it [...]

DRC 06/11/2019

Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 06/11/2019

Washington seeks to counter Moscow in Bangui

MOZAMBIQUE 05/11/2019

Total and ExxonMobil at daggers drawn over Rovuma LNG

Giants Total and ExxonMobil are fighting tooth and nail for control of the technical aspects of the giant LNG project. [...]

NIGER 12/11/2019

Uranium: Rosatom full steam ahead while Orano rubber stamps cutbacks

Although the French nuclear group Orano (formerly Areva) has decided to make drastic cuts to its activities in Niger, the Niamey authorities have found a new potential ally [...]

Corridors of power

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SOMALILAND 15/11/2019

Nairobi builds diplomatic bridges with Hargeisa

With relations already strained between Nairobi and Mogadishu due to their border dispute, Kenyatta has riled Farmajo by inviting Musa Bihi Abdi. [...]

ALGERIA 14/11/2019

Azzedine Mihoubi appoints an old-style team

RND party candidate Azzedine Mihoubi has virtually finished composing his campaign team for the December 12 presidential elections. His campaign [...]

DRC 12/11/2019

MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

After resuming its diamond extraction activities in September, the Congolese state-owned MIBA (Société minière de Bakwanga) may have to already [...]

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UGANDA 15/11/2019

Kampala seeks Emirati assistance on cybersecurity

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Abderraouf Betbaïeb gets "family" presidential post

DRC 12/11/2019

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

Breaking newsGABON 08/11/2019

Office of the president keeps it close to the family

On the night of November 7, the president's office had to have a second go at publishing the full list [...]

MAURITANIA SENEGAL 05/11/2019

Why Adnoc's purchase of Kosmos' assets is now ineffective

The conditions for the sale of two-thirds of the US junior's assets in the two countries have changed, bringing the process back to square one. [...]

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ETHIOPIA 15/11/2019

Italians queue up to do business in Addis

Five months on from the EU-Ethiopia Business Forum in Brussels at which Italian firms were absent, the Italian Trade Agency has decided to step up its game. [...]

MADAGASCAR 15/11/2019

The detours of Andry Rajoelina's Turkish jet

Andry Rajoelina is reluctant to purchase a presidential jet and in the meantime has a Turkish private jet waiting on the tarmac at Ivato for him. [...]

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Abdeslam Ahizoune plunges into Casablanca's dustbins

Maroc Télécom chairman Abdeslam Ahizoune has put on a new hat... that of binman! The sudden departure from Morocco of waste collection market leader Derichebourg has forced the former telecommunications minister to fly to the aid of his son Youssef [...]

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UGANDA 15/11/2019

Electricity alliance between UETCL and Ethiopia

SIERRA LEONE 12/11/2019

Marampa PR battle over, arbitration on

WEST AFRICA 06/11/2019

Société générale active on every front

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Jaâfar Heikel is partnered by TGCC boss in clinic-building project

High profile media personality Dr. Jaâfar Heikel has consolidated his plans to set up a network of private clinics in [...]

BURKINA FASO 12/11/2019

Ouagadougou pushes local business leaders into Kiéré manganese

While the Burkina Faso authorities want the Tambao project to be taken over by a foreign firm (AMI 449), they [...]

SWAZILAND 12/11/2019

Sergey Bozhko, pioneer of gold prospecting in kingdom

The fledgling Muscovite mining firm Africa Gold is preparing to send geologists to Eswatini in November to start exploration on [...]

IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Concrete gains for Emmanuel Macron ahead of Abidjan visit

In the run-up to Emmanuel Macron's visit to Abidjan in early December, French construction firms are being showered with contracts. [...]

AFRICA 05/11/2019

Where are Total's dead zones and what are its golden tickets for Patrick Pouyanné?

There is little chance Total will be tucking into projects of any significance in Congo-B or Gabon in the near future and its Angolan is continuing to fall, pushing the French major to be far more risk-taking in new territories. Namibia/South [...]

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Power brokers

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EAST AFRICA 15/11/2019

How Workeneh Gebeyehu secured IGAD post

On 7 November, the former Ethiopian foreign minister Workeneh Gebeyehu, who since March had been heading up the UN office [...]

News In Brief

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Omar Alaoui moves from the CGEM to ESL & Network

TUNISIA 14/11/2019

Former TFBank chief executive Houssein Mouelhi turns consultant

MOROCCO 14/11/2019

Ex-OCP security chief Ahmed Fouad Bahbouhi sets up on his own

IVORY COAST 06/11/2019

Marcel Amon Tanoh set to ambush Amadou Gon Coulibaly?

Openly sceptical of the chances of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly if, as seems likely, he runs for president in [...]

NIGERIA 05/11/2019

Why do NNPC's Mele Kyari and minister Sylva only have eyes for Moscow?

NNPC group managing director Mele Kyari and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva joined President Muhammadu Buhari [...]

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AFRICA RUSSIA Infrastructure & Power 18/11/2019

Power Machines seeks to bolster its presence in Africa

Faced with US sanctions, the Russian electrical engineering firm is eyeing contracts in Sudan, Angola and Tanzania. [...]

KENYA Infrastructure & Power 18/11/2019

Senior Kenyan official negotiates financing of Nairobi airport rail link during Paris trip

While in France, Charles Hinga discussed the funding of the project to link the city to Jomo Kenyatta airport. [...]

KENYA Corridors of power 15/11/2019

Uhuru Kenyatta already looking to replace Supreme Court president Free

President Uhuru Kenyatta is disappointed with the performance of the courts in stamping out corruption. Although in principle he has [...]

MADAGASCAR Business circles 15/11/2019

Devendra Curpen moves into construction

The Madagascan partner of the auditing firm BDO, the accountant [...]

MOZAMBIQUE Business circles 15/11/2019

Transcom JP, the economic arm of the Mocuba administrator

In late October, the administrator of the district of Mocuba [...]

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