SpotlightDRC
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. [...]
The South African manufacturer of mining explosives AECI has initiated arbitration at ICSID with the Burkinabe state, which has seized its bank accounts and brought legal action against it over import duties. [...]
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. [...]
While Kenyatta favourite @RailaOdinga reaches out to the opposition, @MusaliaMudavadi and @DrMukhisaKituyi have called on their sponsors to support their bid in State House to be designated as the president's new candidate. #Kenya https://t.co/YnuyhmZnPo
The Congolese president will likely reassert his control over the handling of the mega-dam, leaving little room for his new ministers to have much political sway. #DRC https://t.co/AsJRLPP4jP
Elisabeth Barbier, the secretary-general of the France-Africa summit due to be held in Montpellier on 8-10 July, has thrown in the towel. https://t.co/kG1ZeHAyB8
