SpotlightDRC
Appointed prime minister on 11 June, Henri-Marie Dondra has the difficult task of reassuring the cash-strapped country's financial backers while dealing with heightened tensions over the December elections and growing Russian influence. The appointment of his cabinet will be a baptism of fire. [...]
By appointing Ruth Ssentamu as energy and mineral development minister, the Ugandan president has put this key post in the hands of a trusted and devoted collaborator. With her highly political, non-technical profile, she will have the job of dealing with opposition calls for greater transparency over oil contracts. [...]
For all the media spin of President Tebboune, the Algerian-Chinese mega-project slated for 2022 to exploit the phosphate deposits in the south of the country has been torpedoed by the withdrawal first of Wengfu and now of Citic. A new partner now needs to be found... [...]
#India #Kenya Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) talked up military cooperation between New Delhi and Nairobi after he met President Uhuru Kenyatta on 14 June. https://t.co/6Lx7qzzOe0
#Sinohydro #Benin In mid-June, the Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro won the entire contract for developing and asphalting the 210-km road between the central town of Djougou and Banikoara in the north. https://t.co/gG4aAKWO6q
The #US is worried that violent unrest in the northern province of Mozambique might spread to neighbouring states. The State Department plans to closely monitor Mozambique's border with Malawi. #CaboDelgado #Mozambique #Malawi https://t.co/FtzoxFFo17
