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SPOTLIGHT SUDAN 22/09/2017

Does lifting sanctions depend on normalising relations with Israel?

Statements made in late August by the deputy prime minister and minister for investment, Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi, concerning relations between Sudan and Israel have triggered a polemic. Is Omar al-Bashir's regime going to have to establish closer ties with Benjamin [...]

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LIBYA 21/09/2017

Ghassan Salame faces competition on all sides

Even before presenting his "road map" to the United Nations on September 20, UN special Libya envoy Ghassan Salame was confronted with competing initiatives from Tunisia, Egypt and even Congo-Brazzaville. In Tunis, Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi is trying to [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Document 22/09/2017

Trump Tower lookalike for the minister of cabinet affairs

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NIGER 19/09/2017

The juniors laying money on an uranium upturn

While French nuclear group Areva has put its Nigerien Imouraren uranium project under wraps for the time being, some investors are taking the opposite approach. With optimism abound, they are banking on prices recovering and jostling to get a foothold [...]

Corridors of power SOMALILAND 22/09/2017

The Emirates count on Musa Bihi to parry the Saudis

The Emirates government is prepared to support the Kulmiye party's candidate in the president election in Hargeisa. His opponent, meanwhile, is toeing the Saudi line. [...]

MOROCCO 21/09/2017

All change for Jouahri, Baraka and Zaaboul

Mohammed VI having extended his stay in Paris, Rabat high society is buzzing with speculation over the game of musical [...]

TANZANIA 25/08/2017

Did Egypt's Sissi manage to cozy up to Magufuli?

In his grand tour of Africa, Egyptian leader Abdelfattah al Sissi dropped in on Dar es Salaam on Aug. 14 for an official meeting with president John Magufuli. Apart from the traditional pledges to strengthen trade ties, the Egyptian rais [...]

NIGERIA 12/09/2017

Is Addax Petroleum about to be taken to court in the US?

With its troubles with the Genevan procurer behind it, the Chinese major may now feel the force of the American judicial machine over its activities in Nigeria. [...]

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UGANDA 22/09/2017

The National Security Council, a pro-Museveni instrument

Theoretically a consultative body, the NSC has become the president's direct line to the police, whose activities are becoming increasingly [...]

MOROCCO 21/09/2017

Benatiq struggles with ECOWAS quandary

Morocco's application to join ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States), which it launched soon after its return to [...]

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MADAGASCAR 22/09/2017

A former minister refuses to pay his fines

TUNISIA 21/09/2017

Maher Sellami lands Chahed office job

BURKINA FASO 19/09/2017

Oumarou Idani counting on Rabat's help in mining sector

NIGER 12/09/2017

CNPC ditches all Agadem's crude export projects for time being

IVORY COAST | LIBERIA 12/09/2017

Liza sweeps ExxonMobil out of West Africa

SOUTH SUDAN 12/09/2017

Salva Kiir clears away cobwebs at Nilepet

NIGER 19/09/2017

Niamey invents new permits to help fill State coffers

Nigerien mines minister Hassane Barazé Moussa, who wants to increase the number of active mines in the country and extend [...]

UNITED STATES AFRICA 13/09/2017

Donald Trump names his ambassadors

After months of procrastination, the American president has more or less finalised his diplomatic representation in Africa. [...]

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MADAGASCAR 22/09/2017

Turbulence on the horizon for Air Madagascar

Negotiations between Air Madagascar and Air Austral are dragging on and threatening to scuttle the partnership. [...]

ALGERIA 21/09/2017

Tahkout bids for leadership of auto spare parts market with PEC

Mahieddine Tahkout is sparing no effort to establish himself in a leading position in the automobile industry. His factory in [...]

TANZANIA 19/09/2017

Norton Rose, Barrick's envoy to John Magufuli

Caught in fiscal wrangle with president John Magufuli over Acacia Mining, Canadian firm Barrick Gold has roped in law firm Norton Rose to handle talks with Tanzania. [...]

CHAD 13/09/2017

Inquiry into Air Inter 1 aircraft in Syria and Iran

The Chadian aviation authority is looking into the operations of this local airline. [...]

AFRICA 12/09/2017

Lawyer Clement Fondufe muscles in on major oil deals

The head of Latham & Watkins's Africa practice has gradually made a name for himself as the go-to legal advisor for any oil dealings on the continent. [...]

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MOZAMBIQUE 22/09/2017

Lawyer Pedro Macaringue stakes out his mining claim

The Mozambican lawyer Pedro Macaringue seems determined to carve himself out a niche in his country's mining sector. In March, [...]

CONGO-K 19/09/2017

Simon Youds' plans to defuse diggers' revolt

Australian entrepreneur Simon Youds, who develops gold projects in the Maniema province of eastern Congo-K via the firm he heads, [...]

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MOROCCO 21/09/2017

Malak Benchakroun to co-pilot PSA in the Maghreb

TUNISIA 21/09/2017

Condor director Amir Benhamadi goes into consulting

TOGO 13/09/2017

Jose Symenouh expands La Protectrice Assurances

IVORY COAST 13/09/2017

DTTV, the new battlefield for national and foreign operators

The opening up of the Ivorian audiovisual landscape has triggered a war without mercy between operators keen to tap into lucrative advertising revenues. The French businessmen Martin Bouygues, Vincent Bollore and Xavier Niel, along with the Ivorian tycoon Jean-Philippe Kabore, [...]

UGANDA 12/09/2017