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After several months of delays at the Prime Minister's Office, plans to build a railway line between the Sanaga-Maritime department's capital and the southern deep-water port are set to move forward. A memorandum of understanding is due to be signed to launch feasibility studies.
The president of Paris-based Musée du Quai Branly, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, is in Lagos, where he met with the director of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments. At the same time, he is in talks with Ivorian authorities over their planned new museum in Abidjan.
The tone is hardening between the junta and the French embassy. Despite fraying bilateral relations, Paris is striving to maintain a delicate diplomatic balance with the country in order to counter Russia's ever-growing influence.
