The United States and France are worried that Wagner, which is already heavily involved in the Central Africa Republic and Mali, is now trying to get a foothold in Congo. Fears that the mercenary group might be trying to set up shop in the port of Pointe-Noire are being taken very seriously. [...]
Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics. This week: Papa Amadou Sarr (Senegal), Schwan Badirou Gafari (Benin), Linet Chepkorir (Kenya), Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (Somalia). [...]
Newly installed as president of Kenya, William Ruto hasn't wasted any time relaunching a partnership with the UAE, where much of the preparations for his presidential campaign took place. Now several burning issues are back on the table. [...]
Consensus is sorely lacking in when it comes to tackling Somalia's humanitarian emergency and likely famine, to the detriment of international aid cooperation and the country's citizens. [...]
With the adoption of a new oil law still far off, companies are losing patience - and missing no opportunity to take the state oil company and energy ministry to task over the project. [...]
The aristocratic von Pezold family nearly saw its $200 million land-seizure compensation suit collapse after they addressed court documents to a Zimbabwean minister who had died months earlier. [...]
China Harbour Engineering Company, which has been present in Ivory Coast since 2015, has just pocketed a new contract estimated at 26bn CFA francs (€39m) in Abidjan. [...]
Morissanda Kouyaté recently travelled to New York and Washington for the United Nations General Assembly. The foreign minister made the most of his trip to boost Conakry's ties with a number of Gulf countries and improve its fraught relationship with the Biden administration. [...]
Niger businessman Aboubacar Hima, also known as Petit Boubé, visited Dakar discreetly from August to September to meet with the head of the Senegalese gendarmerie Moussa Fall [...]
The general manager of ExxonMobil's local office and Chad's oil and energy minister were able to meet on 24 September. That encounter may spell progress in the debate over the fiscal terms of the US major's withdrawal from the country. [...]
A key player in the agreement between Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler and Kinshasa, Rabbi Moyal invited Félix Tshisekedi and his associates out to dine on 22 September in New York. [...]
Egypt is pitted against Ethiopia in the race to sell electricity to neighbouring Sudan, which is plagued by recurrent power cuts and must respond to growing consumption. [...]
The Higher Council of the Magistrature plans to appoint judges dismissed by Kais Saied as court presidents. This would qualify them to become members of the future new Constitutional Court, something which Saied wants to avoid at all costs. [...]
