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Spotlight | Ghana
ENI and Accra on brink of divorce

ENI is developing the Offshore Cape Three Points project with Vitol and GNPC in Western Ghana. © ENI

The Italian oil company ENI is in open conflict with the government in Accra and may decide to pull out of the country.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
Touadéra and Moscow protect warlord Hassan Bouba from international justice

By targeting one of the emblematic figures of the Central African Republic conflict - livestock minister and former rebel leader Hassan Bouba - the Bangui special criminal court has thrown a spanner into an already uneasy mix of peace deals, jittery financial backers and Russian mercenaries.

Subscribers only Politics

Chad
Who is controlling the oil since Déby's death?

The political void created by the death of the president and patriarch Idriss Déby has enabled new players to take in hand the most lucrative sector of the local economy.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Mali
G4S and Relyant vie for contract to train MINUSMA's mine-clearing experts

British private security giant G4S and American subcontractor Relyant have applied to help the UN reinforce its strategy to keep its soldiers in Mali safe from improvised explosive devices.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Guinea
New seizures ordered on Monaco Resources assets

As a result of the dispute between the company and its subcontractor MCI, a court in Conakry has ordered exit bans and seizures of all of Monaco Resources' assets at the port and on the road to the company's bauxite mine in Guinea.

Subscribers only Mining

Senegal
Haranga Resources woos stock market in wake of UraMin scandal

Haranga is trying to relist on the Australian stock exchange, banking on investor interest in its West African gold licences and in its Saraya uranium project. Saraya once belonged to UraMin, the company at the heart of a scandal involving Areva.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Addis slows down Tigrayan offensive with its new drones and refurbished combat planes

Aware that control of the skies is its main, if not only, asset in the face of the Tigrayan TPLF-led assault, the Ethiopian federal government has bought drones from various suppliers as well as hastily refurbished its attack aircraft.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Egypt, Sudan
UN Security Council awaits status report from Khartoum representative

Volker Perthes, head of UNITAMS (UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan). © Volker Perthes/Twitter

Volker Perthes, head of UNITAMS (United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan) will soon submit a status report to the United Nations Security Council.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana
Ex-Debswana exec Leonard Makwinja advises buyer of Mowana copper mine

Leonard Makwinja, independent non-executive director of Minergy Coal. © Minergy Coal

To help with its debut in the copper industry, Max Power, the Mauritian company controlled by Dutch wealth manager Gregory Elias, has called on Leonard Makwinja's expert advice. The Bostwanan consultant is a veteran mining parastatals executive.

Subscribers only Mining

Mozambique, Russia
Moscow remains involved in Cabo Delgado despite Wagner's exit

As the US attempts to restore ties with the Mozambican army, Russia's deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov has offered Maputo Moscow's help in training the country's soldiers. Despite the official withdrawal of the paramilitaries from Wagner in 2020, Russian soldiers have never completely vacated Mozambican soil.

Free access Diplomacy

North Africa

Libya
Souha al-Bedri is Saif Al Islam Gaddafi 's voice in Paris

The consultant Souha al-Bedri. © Souha al-Bedri/Facebook

A thwarted candidate in the upcoming Libyan presidential election, Saif Al Islam Gaddafi can still rely on former members of his father's clan who have remained loyal to him to keep alive his international profile.

Subscribers only Politics

Morocco
Rabat opts for yet more Turkish armed drones to contend with Polisario and Algiers

The Bayraktar TB2 combat drone. © Baykar

Mohammed VI's army is about to place a second order for armed Bayraktar TB2 drones manufactured by Turkey's Baykar as tensions mount with Western Sahara and neighbouring Algeria. Other suppliers are being solicited too.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

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