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Spotlight | Africa, Russia
Russian ambassadors in Africa in combat mode

A parade organised on 26 February 2022 in the streets of Kinshasa in support of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. © Russie en RD Congo/Twitter

For several weeks, Russian diplomats all over Africa have been using all the means at their disposal to justify their country's invasion of Ukraine and limit its impact on Russia's interests on the continent.

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The Continent

Africa
Morrow Sodali, shadow adviser for mining deals

Morrow Sodali, a consultancy specialising in managing hostile takeovers and disgruntled shareholders, has recently supported several transactions involving mines in Africa.

Subscribers only Mining

Central Africa

Chad
Military group representatives still waiting on their tickets to Doha

FACT leader, Mahdi Ali Mahamat, who has been slow to obtain valid travel documents to go to Doha. © Facebook Mahdi Ali Mahamat

Despite notable progress, the peace talks between Chad's armed political groups and the N'Djamena government is due for further delays. The reconciliation process to be held in Doha last week was postponed.

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Central Africa
Nicolae Buzaianu pitches bitcoin venture in CAR

Swiss-Romanian businessman Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu, who is energetically courting officials in the Central African Republic, is looking beyond timber into generating cryptocurrency and setting up bitcoin mining centres in the country.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Central African Republic, United Nations
Luanda keen for MINUSCA role

While Rwandan Valentine Rugwabiza has just been appointed head of the UN mission in CAR (MINUSCA), replacing the Senegalese diplomat Mankeur Ndiaye, another position within the UN operation has also attracted interest in recent weeks: that of Force Commander.

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West Africa

Nigeria
Leonardo joins Airbus and Turkish Aerospace in the race to supply combat helicopters

Italian defence giant Leonardo, already well known in Nigeria, has offered its AW109 light attack helicopters to the land forces. But the competition is going to be tough in the face of Airbus, India's HAL and Turkey's TAI.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Mauritania
Addax-Oryx and the troublesome issue of the Mauritanian fuel contract

Oryx Energies's fuel and gas oil terminal at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, strategically placed to supply Mauritania. © oryxenergies.com

Oryx Energies seems determined to make a fresh offer in the round of tenders scheduled for 21 March for the supply of fuel to Mauritania, despite Nouakchott just reporting that all tenders on 6 January were unsuccessful and relations with the country's authorities remaining complicated.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders

Senegal
Major solar street light project nixed over no tender contract

Senegal's ANER renewable energy agency, whose boss Djiby Ndiaye had announced a vast solar street lighting project in eight regions, will have to review its plans after the public procurement regulator rejected its plan to use a direct agreement contract.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Horn of Africa
In Tigray, an uncertain lull

Direct clashes between federal troops and the TDF have subsided. Meanwhile, African Union envoy Obasanjo is staffing up a mediation team that has been stalling for months.

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Southern Africa and islands

Zimbabwe
Makomo Resources preps for first creditors' meeting while in corporate rescue

Zimbabwe's private coal champion, Makomo Resources, will soon see its creditors meet for the first time since it was placed in receivership last November, while Chinese businesses already have their eye on its concessions.

Subscribers only Mining

Africa, Mozambique
Medical care service Doutor Urgência expands outside oil sector

Doutor Urgência, a medical care service currently serving mainly oil firm expatriates, has signed a deal with national airline Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique to treat passengers who fall ill during a flight.

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North Africa

Algeria, Mauritania
Algerian state throws lifeline to Algiers-Nouakchott sea link

A cargo ship belonging to Algerian state-owned CNAN Med that was recently banned from European waters, has been reassigned to serve Mauritania. The route was until now operated by an association of two private firms.

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Libya
Tripoli's last Antonov heavy cargo aircraft at risk in Kyiv

The Antonov An-124 belonging to the Libyan state in May 2019 at Sviatoshyn airport. © Africa Intelligence

Sent to Ukraine for maintenance 10 years ago, the last Antonov An-124 held by the Libyan state is in danger of being destroyed in the battle for control of Kyiv.

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