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The Burkinabe president Roch Kaboré wants to negotiate a status quo with jihadists.

Focus BURKINA FASO MALI NIGER 22/04/2019

Kabore follows Compaore's example and talks to the Jihadists

LIBYA Business circles 18/04/2019

"Big Four" give up on Libyan central banks audits

The audit of Libya's two rival central banks, which had been called for by the United Nations Support Mission in [...]

SOUTH SUDAN 09/04/2019

B1/B2: PetroSA gains ground as Juba continues to hash out plans with other partners

According to our information, last week South Sudan's minister of petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, dispatched a team to meet with PetroSA senior staff in South Africa. [...]

SUDAN 19/04/2019

'The Fall of Political Islam', Act One

GUINEA 16/04/2019

Signs pointing to a Beny Steinmetz-Rio Tinto "rematch" over Simandou

The amicable settlement Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) was able to reach with the Guinean state over Simandou has far from put an end to the scuffle for the iron ore deposit. [...]

CONGO-B CHINA 10/04/2019

Sassou promotes Beijing's projects despite IMF misgivings

ALGERIA 18/04/2019

Ahmed Gaid Salah's drops new election date

Two weeks after having speeded up the end of the reign of his old ally, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Ahmed Gaid Salah [...]

DJIBOUTI 19/04/2019

Ismail Omar Guelleh, a bone of contention between China and US…

The commander of the Republican Guard and cousin of Ismail Omar Guelleh, Colonel Mohamed Djama Doualeh, is set in the [...]

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KENYA MAURITIUS 19/04/2019

Pabari Investments hangs over Kenyatta's official visit

With outstanding debts owing to SBM, the Kenyan investment firm was not invited to Port-Louis. [...]

TUNISIA 18/04/2019

Court of Accounts reform provokes new row with IMF

Relations between Tunisia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which are already strained, risk degenerating into open warfare over the planned reform of the Court of Accounts. According to our sources, the IMF has made the affair a casus belli [...]

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KENYA 19/04/2019

William Ruto brings his own waves to Coast

LIBYA 18/04/2019

The Tarhunas are Haftar's key hope in Tripoli offensive

CONGO-K 16/04/2019

Haut Katanga communities to get their share of mining fund at last

ALGERIA 09/04/2019

Political crisis: Kaddour fears delays on new hydrocarbons code

TUNISIA 26/03/2019

The American law firm setting a cracking pace on hydrocarbarons code re-write

GABON 26/03/2019

Dussafu: here's why Gabon Oil Co will now never see its 10%

UGANDA 16/04/2019

Yoweri Museveni would rather renew Kilembe alone than in poor company

President Yoweri Museveni is calling for his government to be sole in charge of the rehabilitation of the southwest Kilembe [...]

CAMEROON 10/04/2019

First lady Chantal Biya may have her say in her husband's successor. ©Reuters

Riddle of who will take over from Biya the Sphinx

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Business circles

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MADAGASCAR MAURITIUS 19/04/2019

Mamy Ravatomanga upsets Mauritian protocol

During the visit of the Madagascan president to Mauritius, the presence of the businessman took the Mauritian authorities by surprise. [...]

MOROCCO 18/04/2019

EDF wins Midelt CSP contract, ACWA's photovoltaic bid is rejected

The big Noor Midelt solar power project, which was launched in 2015, has once again blown a fuse. According to [...]

ERITREA 16/04/2019

Nevsun's "forced" workers given respite on document secrets

Extra time has been given to the employees accusing Nevsun of forced labour after its request for key documents to be submitted. [...]

ANGOLA 10/04/2019

Brewers drink to sorrows of Isabel dos Santos

A target of Joao Lourenco's regime, the daughter of the ex-president is struggling to run her local businesses, including the Sodiba brewery, and her rivals are taking advantage. [...]

NIGERIA 09/04/2019

Toscafund, San Leon's overbearing guardian angel

By rushing in to the junior's rescue over the last years, the British asset fund manager has a stronger hold over the oil and gas firm. [...]

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UGANDA 19/04/2019

Ex-dissident Aggrey Kiyingi starts to make waves again…

According to Ugandan security sources, Esther Kampororo, an official at the Rwandan foreign minister, has met on several occasions with [...]

IVORY COAST 16/04/2019

Douglas Chikohora makes comeback to country's mines

Less than a year after founding his group CAA Mining in London in July 2018, Zimbabwean engineer Douglas Chikohora opened [...]

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ALGERIA 18/04/2019

Redha Kounineff leads the quiet life in Hydra

TUNISIA 18/04/2019

China's CNBM set to invest in Hannibal Jegham's cement plant

MOROCCO 18/04/2019

BMCE "green" finance boss Ghizlaine Nourlil sets up on her own

GABON 10/04/2019

Edgard Anicet Mboumbou Miyakou, Bongo's go-to man for legal affairs

The 53-year-old minister of state for justice and human rights, Edgard Anicet Mboumbou Miyakou, is taking care in Libreville of [...]

TANZANIA 09/04/2019

Kahyoza sent on kamikaze mission to save Magufuli's LNG project

As Africa Energy Intelligence understands, it will be a veteran of Tanzania's ministry of energy, Norbert Kahyoza, who will handle [...]

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Kigali fears escalation of violence Free

Following the commemoration of the Rwandan genocide on 7 April, President Paul Kagame played down the risk of a confrontation [...]

MOZAMBIQUE Business circles 19/04/2019

Diageo ups its imports of alcohol

The British brewer Diageo is planning to quadruple the volume [...]

KENYA ETHIOPIA Business circles 19/04/2019

Brookside Dairy seeks to expand into Oromia

As he negotiates access to the Tanzanian milk market (ION [...]

MOZAMBIQUE Business circles 19/04/2019

Westfalia Fruto reaps fruits of IFC

The South African avocado cultivator Westfalia is to receive a [...]

MAURITIUS Business circles 19/04/2019

Trouble at top of SBM

The visit of the Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta (see here) [...]

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