Spotlight | Africa
Touton's sale to hedge fund Hartree clouds cocoa and coffee outlook

Spotlight | Cameroon
Yaoundé's €274m debt to French firms increasingly problematic in Paris

The Cameroonian government owes several hundred million euros to its French creditors, a debt that continues to grow. NHPC and Tollcam, whose majority shareholders are French, as well as TotalEnergies, are among the firms to which moneys are owed.

Inner circles | DRC
Saleh Assi, a businessman shunned by his Lebanese compatriots

Despite being under US sanctions since 2019, the Lebanese national has prospered in his home country, DRC and Europe. Growing pressure from Washingon has failed to stem an empire bolstered by political connections.

Spotlight | DRC
US banking company's $4bn lawsuit puts Tshisekedi in tight spot with Washington

Inner circles | Nigeria
The architects behind President Tinubu's diplomacy

Nigeria's 100-plus embassies have gone without ambassadors for two years, as the head of state increasingly relies on a select group of businessmen and diplomats to shape his foreign agenda.

Inner circles | Ethiopia
Inside Abiy Ahmed's circle of new business barons

Spotlight | Tanzania
ExxonMobil hopes for support from Trump on LNG

Spotlight | Mozambique
ENH increasingly encroaches on ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies and ENI

The state-owned company is a dead weight on the country's gas development sector, absorbing all local content benefits itself and preventing foreign and domestic private sector companies from gaining a foothold.

Inner circles | Madagascar
All the president's military men

The organisation of the Présidence de la Refondation de la République marks a significant shift towards the militarisation of Madagascar's executive branch. The new structure concentrates power around the colonel and his four advisers.

Inner circles | Morocco
The key lieutenants of royal adviser Fouad Ali el-Himma

Spotlight | Morocco
Big wig businessman Chakib Alj comes to the rescue of Forafric