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Dan Gertler made a secret trip to meet Félix Tshisekedi before Antony Blinken's arrival

Breaking news published on 11/08/22 at 18:05 - Less than 24 hours before the arrival in the DRC of the head of US diplomacy Antony Blinken, Dan Gertler visited Kinshasa. With great discretion, Washington is preparing files for possible sanctions targeting advisers of President Tshisekedi involved in the agreement with the Israeli billionaire. [...]

Palace intrigues: Denis Sassou Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Nasser Bourita

Intrigues big and small. Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond. This week: Denis Sassou Nguesso takes a break in Turkey; Alassane Ouattara gets a third palace in Abidjan; Rabat upset over the twinning of the French town of Ivry with the district of Mijek in the Western Sahara. [...]

Kenyatta leaves DP World headache to successor amid mounting anger

With less than two weeks to go until the general election, and in the face of public indignation, the Kenyan government has postponed plans to entrust the management of the country's main ports to the Dubai-based company. This very sensitive issue will now be inherited by the next administration. [...]

President Hassan Sheikh bets the house on containing Al-Shabaab

As well as carrying out a rare attack on Ethiopian territory, the Al-Shabaab terrorist group is taking advantage of the disarray among the security forces to take up position around the Somali capital. Somalia's recently elected president is looking to secure the resources he needs to wage the open war he has declared against it. [...]

Doumbouya treads fine line with massacre of 28 September trial

The president of the Guinean transition has pledged that the oft-postponed trial relating to the terrible repression of 2009 will finally take place by this September. A decision that contrasts with the favourable treatment reserved by the transitional authorities for Colonel Claude Pivi and former president Moussa Dadis Camara. [...]

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Dan Gertler made a secret trip to meet Félix Tshisekedi before Antony Blinken's arrival

Eskom's fate caught up in the clash between Ramaphosa and Mantashe

Spymasters stand in as mediators for Doha talks

Guinea, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Abiy-Kenyatta talks focus on Oromo rebels

ANC concerned at South Africa's declining influence on continent

UN experts uncover Kabila regime's cunning arms supply scheme

Habibo poised to take over Star Madagascar's Coca-Cola licence

French businessman Yazid Sabeg caught up in Samanah Country Club's hellish paradise

Doumbouya confident of facing down ECOWAS

Ouattara speeds up wheels of justice in cocaine trafficking affair

French foreign ministry ex-North Africa director Christophe Farnaud appointed as special envoy

Abiy irked by choice of Somalia's new PM

PhosAgro, Uralchem, Eurochem: how Russian fertiliser giants cope with sanctions Free

In Focus

Zelensky's Sudan connection - how Ukraine armed itself in Khartoum

Inside Sudan's labyrinthine military-industrial complex

Libya's agri-food tycoons position themselves to tackle crisis

Zelensky's Sudan connection - how Ukraine armed itself in Khartoum

Inside Sudan's labyrinthine military-industrial complex

Libya's agri-food tycoons position themselves to tackle crisis

The Continent

The New Guard: Guinea, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana

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Antoinette Sassou Nguesso plays queenmaker for African first ladies

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Volion Global Logistics gears up to take post-Antonov African pickings

Nouakchott to launch tender for $323m Nouadhibou deepwater port

Vaalco profits as Ukraine war drives Russia's Gunvor out of Block I

Volion Global Logistics gears up to take post-Antonov African pickings

Nouakchott to launch tender for $323m Nouadhibou deepwater port

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ruto and Odinga snub religious leaders' call for peaceful elections

Beleaguered PM Hamza Abdi Barre struggles to form a government

Petronas vs Khartoum arbitration fizzles out

Former finance minister Hiba Ahmed takes over as head of Islamic Development Fund

New AU mission head to be named soon

Kenyatta leaves DP World headache to successor amid mounting anger

President Hassan Sheikh bets the house on containing Al-Shabaab

Odinga and Ruto swamped by allies demanding government posts

Southern Africa and islands

INA Industrija Nafte quietly says goodbye to sub-Saharan Africa

Mabuzas invest lottery profits in $10 million jet

Retail and construction tycoons Ottapathu and Boxshall-Smith invest in Mokolodi reserve

Two bigwig ANC ministers allegedly burgled

Explosives inquiry opened after Mozambican citizen arrested

ExxonMobil and ENI leave TotalEnergies in lurch over Afungi

Lord Hain takes up case of former president Ian Khama in House of Lords Free

Madagascar's government takes aim at car dealers

West Africa

New cocoa initiative still far cry from Ouattara and Akufo-Addo's chocolate heaven

Rémy Rioux set for third term as AFD head

French ex-foreign minister coaches successor and new defence minister on African issues

OIF sends a new delegation to Conakry

Doumbouya treads fine line with massacre of 28 September trial

Accra delays sale of Chirano mine to Asante in hope of better deal

Ivorian football supremo Idriss Diallo hunts for new sponsors

Central Africa

DRC sets 15-year deadline for digitalising its land register

ENI and TotalEnergies circle as Gertler's former blocks go on sale Free

Kabila's PPRD to hold party conference in September

4-star general to take over as French ambassador in Yaoundé

MONUSCO boss Bintou Keita on European tour

MONUSCO seeks to boost military arsenal to contend with M23

Pascaline Bongo and Omar Denis Jr Bongo are latest to be charged in 'ill-gotten gains' case

Mahamat Idriss Déby expected to make official visit to Riyadh

North Africa

Secret talks in Dubai: after the NOC, Dabaiba willing to offer several key ministries to Haftar clan

Reverend Zaki discreetly lobbies Washington on Sisi's behalf

Sonatrach claims major Hassi R'Mel gas discovery

MbS due in Algiers to talk oil and Arab League

Helene Le Gal tipped to become new EU chief for North Africa

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