Trasta, which was briefly the operator of the Ras Lanuf refinery, the Emirates' principal asset in Libya, has accused Tripoli of having failed to adequately protect the refinery. The case is to go to arbitration and the two sides have now chosen their arbitrators. [...]
The US Department of State will be entrusting the logistics of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali to private American operators. [...]
The Ivorian president has come in for criticism from Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa for deciding to run for a third term in office. With Kutwa due to retire as cardinal next year, Ouattara is worrying that Pope Françis may name an even more outspoken prelate in his place. [...]
The Conseil Café Cacao (CCC) is no longer holding its revenues with the Ivorian branches of French banks, preferring instead to use African establishments as a matter of course. [...]
The Seychelles government has created a new made-to-measure diplomatic post for Dmitry Sergeyevitch Kislov, the son of the billionaire Sergei Kislov who made his fortune in sunflower oil production and grain export in Russia. [...]
Gambling his international image on the properties of the anti-Covid infusion that he has been promoting relentlessly, Andry Rajoelina has parachuted an ally, Holijaona Raboana, in as head of Pharmalagasy, the laboratory that will make the miracle product. [...]
Hassan Beklhayat's strategic consulting firm has no lobbying experience but has been hired to help Rabat convince Africa CDC to move its headquarters to Morocco. The firm may receive a hand from its partner, Lionel Zinzou and Donald Kaberuka's Southbridge Group. [...]
If he inherits the Cairo ambassador post, the ex-diplomat and current spokesman for President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will have to tread a fine line, with Egypt and Algeria at loggerheads over the situation in Libya. [...]
Nairobi has extended Tullow Oil's Turkana production permit by 15 months. [...]
The Trump administration is financing a project to tackle child labour in Madagascar's mica mines, confronting Beijing, the main buyer of the mineral, on a sensitive human rights issue. [...]
State-owned Guinean mining company Soguipami analysed SRG Mining's performance on the Toronto stock exchange before deciding whether or not to take a stake in the company developing the Lola graphite mining project. [...]
