Focus AFRICA
Several ministers, including the prime minister, will be running for office in the Central African general elections scheduled for 27 December and are therefore obliged to step down from their posts. [...]
Italy's Teleconsult, a service provider for the Congolese telecoms and pay-TV sector and, more discreetly, for the country's security services, has taken legal action against the French businessman François Gontier for breach of contract. [...]
Hassen Taïeb Ezzraïmi has taken over the reins of the holding company founded by his father, the industrialist and MP Abdelkader Taïeb Ezzraïmi, who died in April. His brothers have kept control of parts of the group. [...]
The majors present in Tunisia, already struggling to contend with Covid-19, could leave the country altogether because of the highly volatile social situation there. New energy and mines minister Salwa Sghaier is taking up her post at a time of tension in the Tunisian oil sector. [...]
South Africa's Petra Diamonds, which has been absent from Angola's diamond sector since 2009, is in talks with the government to develop new projects in the country. The firm is one of a growing number of foreign investors being courted by President Lourenço's administration. [...]
Unlike other African countries, which are reducing the volume of fertilisers they are ordering for 2021 in response to the Covid-19 crisis, Ghana plans to increase its fertiliser imports. It wants to avoid food shortages but also to avoid problems for President Nana Akufo-Addo as he prepares to run for a fresh term in December. [...]
Chinese aluminium and electricity producer Hangzhou Jinjiang has applied for bauxite prospecting rights in Guinea. To prepare its arrival, it has made use of Chinese trade promotion events and its contacts with China's Chalco and TBEA groups, which are already active in the Guinean bauxite sector. [...]
