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Focus MOROCCO 24/02/2020

Naval Group and Piriou want to set up a shipyard to serve the Moroccan navy

MOZAMBIQUE 14/02/2020

Costs of American embassy continue to spiral

Costed at $160 million in 2015, the US State Department will now have to shell out over $205 million to [...]

HORN OF AFRICA 14/02/2020

Djibouti fearful of exclusion from regional cooperation

Having not received an invitation to the meeting held on 27 January in Asmara that was attended by the Ethiopian [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES MOROCCO 20/02/2020

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan makes up with Mohammed VI and boosts the family business

ALGERIA 18/02/2020

How Patrick Pouyanné inadvertently led to Kamel-Eddine Chikhi's ousting from Sonatrach

Kamel-Eddine Chikhi only managed to hold on to the top seat at Sonatrach for just two short months. Behind his fleeting career at the top of the national oil firm lies a tug of war with the Algerian generals over [...]

LIBYA 20/02/2020

Italians and Greeks clash over Libya

GUINEA 24/02/2020

Summa, WIETC and Sogea-Satom vie for Conakry Airport contract

Turkey's Summa, the Chinese company WIETC and France's Sogea-Satom are all bidding for the tender to expand Conakry Gbessia Airport. [...]

AFRICA 18/02/2020

Tullow Oil's Dorothy Thompson flogs family jewels for cash

MOROCCO 21/02/2020

Rabat brings into service the two maritime surveillance aircraft it has bought from Leonardo

The Royal Moroccan Navy is to benefit from the arrival in service of two Beechcraft King Air 350 maritime patrol aircraft, which have been fitted with high-tech equipment supplied by Leonardo. This will enable Morocco to reinforce airborne surveillance of its maritime zones, proposed extensions of which are being challenged by Spain. [...]

KENYA Corridors of power 14/02/2020

Kenyatta ignores NIS warnings over simmering political tensions

President Uhuru Kenyatta has no intention of dialling down his campaign to promote the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). This despite [...]

Corridors of power

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Breaking newsIVORY COAST 21/02/2020

Nicolas Sarkozy receives red carpet treatment on business diplomacy mission

Ivorian officials have been treating Nicolas Sarkozy's private trip to Abidjan like a state visit. When he landed in the [...]

TUNISIA 20/02/2020

Kaïs Saïed attacks Baccouche's TV project

Kaïs Saïed has instructed foreign minister Sabri Bachtobji to cut short Taïeb Baccouche's mandate as head of the Arab Maghreb [...]

ANGOLA 18/02/2020

Sonangol privatisation: behind the scenes of Lourenço's last chance operation

While the economy is continuing to suffer with the drop in national oil output, Luanda is busy preparing the sale of the state-owned firm in the background. Here's how. [...]

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MOROCCO 20/02/2020

Mezian Benjelloun's arts and crafts museum runs into problems

FRANCE |SIERRA LEONE 19/02/2020

Paris to open diplomatic outpost in Freetown

KENYA 14/02/2020

Cuba urges Kenyatta to pay al-Shabaab ransom for abducted doctors

FRANCE MADAGASCAR 14/02/2020

Scattered Islands bring latent tensions to surface

Ever since the Madagascan president Andry Rajoelina, aka TGV, publicly urged Emmanuel Macron on 29 May 2019 during his visit to Paris ‘to find a solution for dealing with the issue of the Scattered Islands and returning them to Madagascar', [...]

AFRICA 11/02/2020

Legal haze holding back renewable energies in mines

Many of those present at the Renewables for Mining in Africa workshop held by West African Renewables & Environmental Actions [...]

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Business circles

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MOROCCO 20/02/2020

BMCE and CCCC still negotiating on prices at Tanger Tech

BMCE Bank and construction giant China Construction Communication Co (CCCC) have delayed until June the signing of a contract for [...]

ALGERIA 20/02/2020

Ahmed Karim Benmansour takes a back seat at Innomedia

Ahmed Karim Benmansour, the nephew of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is preparing to share control of his urban advertising group [...]

WEST AFRICA 19/02/2020

French private security firms home in on airports

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) guidelines recommending the privatisation of inspection and screening procedures have helped French operators to snap up contracts at African airports. [...]

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CONGO 19/02/2020

Clan war at Pointe-Noire docks

GHANA 18/02/2020

Total could be tempted to give up on Anadarko's assets

MADAGASCAR 14/02/2020

Brand-new contracts for Jirama

ANGOLA 19/02/2020

In-house shake-up at Gemcorp, the state's favourite financier

Having become in just a few years the Angolan state's leading financial partner, the Russian-British investment firm has lost one of its key executives. [...]

ANGOLA 18/02/2020

Block 2/05: Amni hesitates, Somoil courted by trading giant

The Nigerian firm's position as Somoil's main partner on the block is looking shaky and could slip from its hands while another big player is ready pounce. [...]

MOZAMBIQUE 18/02/2020

INP roasts ExxonMobil, ENI and Total over local content

The three majors have been given a stiff warning over their laxist approach to the country's local content laws. [...]

UGANDA TURKEY 14/02/2020

Turkey's AKP marshals its pawns in Kampala

As organisations and businesses set up shop with the support of Istanbul, Fethullah Gülen's networks remain firmly in the Turkish government's firing line… [...]

AFRICA DRC 11/02/2020

The American private security tycoon Erik Prince. ©Melissa GOLDEN/REDUX-REA

How Erik Prince is building his niche on the continent

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Power brokers

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DRC 19/02/2020

Freddy Kita Bukusu, minister of a thousand networks

The deputy minister for economic planning, Freddy Kita Bukusu, has been chosen to represent President Félix Tshisekedi in Malabo on [...]

News In Brief

TUNISIA 20/02/2020

Football lawyer Maher Somai sets up a national lawyers' association

ALGERIA 20/02/2020

Ali El Hamel hands over the reins at Tazliza mineral water company

TUNISIA 20/02/2020

The Bouchamaouis go for fast expansion of new KFC network

MOZAMBIQUE 18/02/2020

ENH: why did Omar Mitha step aside for Estevão Pale?

Omar Mitha's replacement as the chief executive of ENH had been on the cards since President Filipe Nyusi's re-election in [...]

TANZANIA 14/02/2020

Deusdedit Kakoko steers port of Dar to digital

Under pressure from the chair of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, Naghenjwa Kaboyoka, the director-general of the Tanzania Ports Authority [...]

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SENEGAL Infrastructure & Power 24/02/2020

EMT, Nexcon, Transvial consortium drops out of Dakar BRT tender

A consortium of the Paris regional transport company RATP, the [...]

DRC ZAMBIA Infrastructure & Power 24/02/2020

South Africa's Toll Infrastructure joins highway project led by Katumbi's brother-in-law

Toll Infrastructure Services has teamed with GED Africa, owned by Hungarian businessman René Hutton-Mills, to build a cross-border road between Zambia and the DRC. [...]

RWANDA Infrastructure & Power 24/02/2020

Prime Energy looks to strengthen its position in Rwandan electricity

A fifth hydroelectric dam is in the works for Prime Energy, which is headed by former economy ministry official Sandy Rusera. [...]

MALI Defence & Security 21/02/2020

CAE, MAG and Leonardo among the contenders for MINUSMA's spy plane contract

The world's specialist airborne intelligence contractors, who are already active in the Sahel for the French and American armies, are [...]

Breaking news IVORY COAST 20/02/2020

Maurice Bandaman Ivory Coast's new ambassador in France

After intense discussions, Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has decided to appoint Maurice Bandaman as Ivory Coast's new ambassdor in [...]

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