The former international striker's hold on the presidency of the Cameroonian Football Federation, a seat he coveted for nearly 10 years before his appointment in December, is shaky at best. He is facing the threat of a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the FIFA and the Confederation of African Football breathing down his neck.
The change of government in Lisbon has brought in a raft of new people in foreign policy, which has taken a decidedly more African turn with the arrival of foreign minister João Gomes Cravinho and minister of the economy António Costa e Silva.
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Nine companies were in the running for the construction of Kasumbalesa dry port, near the DRC-Zambia border. The tender was won by the Chinese firm SZTC.
Dominique Perben, who was a government minister throughout Jacques Chirac's presidency from 1995 to 2007, has been in Central Africa for over a week.
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The Indian company Dynamic Mining has obtained the renewal of a status granting it complete rights to build the infrastructures of its future bauxite mine at Bon Ami. Without this golden ticket, the project's progress could have been compromised.
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Mining Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema is scheduled to hold an African Union (AU) summit on humanitarian issues from 25 to 27 May in Malabo.
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The Treasury has chosen a team of six people to steer the sensitive and neglected task of privatising public enterprises, particularly in the sugar sector, which is set to be a hot topic for whoever heads the next administration.
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Business A week after the truce announced by the Ethiopian federal government, a convoy of 21 trucks left Semera yesterday. A few days before, fighting in the Afar between Tigrayans and local militias was still raging.
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The French oil giant is poised to resume its activities in the troubled Cabo Delgado province, where it intends to revive the construction of its LNG plant.
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As preliminary negotiations on Chad's national reconciliation continue in Doha, Egypt, which did not seek to have any role in the mediation, has found itself at heart of the affair. The 2020 arrest of a Chadian rebel leader's brother in Cairo has complicated matters.
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Diplomacy Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is planning to set up a base for the conversion of passenger aircraft into cargo planes, an activity whose growth has been boosted by Covid-19. The company may also expand to offer maintenance services, on Europe's doorstep.
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