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Focus AFRICA FRANCE 17/02/2020

The big clearance sale of "France-Africa" Gatsby Vincent Miclet

WEST AFRICA 19/02/2020

UAE goes on military and diplomatic offensive

With Abu Dhabi poised to disburse an additional €20 million to the G5 Sahel, the emirate is establishing closer military ties with the capitals of the region. [...]

ALGERIA 18/02/2020

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

BENIN 10/02/2020

French, UK, German and UAE firms compete for 50 MW contract

A score of companies are vying for a tender initiated by the American Millennium Challenge Corp. program to build four solar farms. [...]

GUINEA Infrastructure & Power 17/02/2020

Mota Engil teams up with AFC to clinch coastal road contract

The American private security tycoon Erik Prince. ©Melissa GOLDEN/REDUX-REA

AFRICA DRC 11/02/2020

How Erik Prince is building his niche on the continent

ALGERIA Business circles 13/02/2020

Saïd Chengriha resumes hunt for aerostats without Lockheed

Less than two months after having succeeded army chief of staff Ahmed Gaïd Salah, Saïd Chengriha has relaunched the National Popular Army's (ANP) procurement programme. [...]

LIBYA 13/02/2020

Khalifa Haftar starves militias of fuel and cash

By cutting off supplies via the pipeline from the Sharara oil field to the Zawiya Refinery on February 8, General Khalifa Haftar made use of a new weapon to help him capture the town of Zawiya, 30 km west of Tripoli. [...]

Central corridor: Burundi or Rwanda? ©Indian Ocean Newsletter/Indigo publications

TANZANIA Document 14/02/2020

Potential new rival to Rwanda rail link project

The viability of the Isaka-Kigali rail link project has been thrown into doubt by the new roadmap for the Central Corridor. [...]

Corridors of power

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GABON 19/02/2020

'Scorpion' becomes a French affair

In the space of less than three months, the major anti-corruption drive that has claimed the scalps of Ali Bongo's former chief of staff and his allies has become a bone of diplomatic contention between Libreville and Paris. The West [...]

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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FRANCE |SIERRA LEONE 19/02/2020

Paris to open diplomatic outpost in Freetown

KENYA 14/02/2020

Cuba urges Kenyatta to pay al-Shabaab ransom for abducted doctors

LIBYA 13/02/2020

Saleh al Fandi tries to unite the tribes behind Khalifa Haftar

TUNISIA 13/02/2020

Jihadists' return worries Bergamini

The return of Tunisian Jihadists who fought in Syria is increasing worrying the European Union delegation in Tunis under its [...]

AFRICA 11/02/2020

Legal haze holding back renewable energies in mines

Many of those present at the Renewables for Mining in Africa workshop held by West African Renewables & Environmental Actions [...]

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Business circles

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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. [...]

AFRICA 18/02/2020

Tullow Oil's Dorothy Thompson flogs family jewels for cash

As we revealed, Tullow Oil executive chairman Dorothy Thompson announced on February 5 that the company will be cutting its [...]

News In Brief

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

MADAGASCAR 14/02/2020

Brand-new contracts for Jirama

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… [...]

KENYA 14/02/2020

A eurobond to finance BBI referendum?

Uhuru Kenyatta's new Eurobond has become a political rather than economic matter. Despite their reservations, he is pressuring his advisors to secure the loan ahead of the referendum. [...]

MOROCCO 13/02/2020

Mahdi El Majidi eyes security market with Delta Drone

Drones, artificial intelligence and privileged access to companies controlled by royal holding company Al Mada. These are the key assets [...]

DRC 11/02/2020

Gécamines wages attack on Pengxin over Shituru copper

In its vast partnership audit launched in 2018 (AMI 431), Gécamines has unearthed details it felt warranted the filing of [...]

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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

WEST AFRICA 19/02/2020

David Fofana raises €40 million

TUNISIA |LIBYA 13/02/2020

Former Petro Air boss Maatoug takes over at Joint Oil

MOROCCO 13/02/2020

The Freidjis have their ad contract renewed by Casa Transports

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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Tony Blair negotiates with Libreville and Nouakchott Free

Already advising six African governments, the former British PM's public-private outfit is now looking to set up shop in Gabon and Mauritania. [...]

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AFRICA Business circles 19/02/2020

Insign to take care of PR for Africa 2020 season

The Parisian agency Insign has been chosen by the Elysée [...]

BURKINA FASO Business circles 19/02/2020

Ouagadougou calls Emirates to rescue of Air Burkina

The struggling airline Air Burkina is urgently trying to find [...]

IVORY COAST Business circles 19/02/2020

Serge Kouakou sets up on his own

The managing director of the Ivorian outpost of the security [...]

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