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Spotlight | Africa, Turkey
Turkey's diplomats pave the way for Erdogan's African Show

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (foreground) and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat (background). © Omer Messinger/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

In the run-up to the African Union summit on 6 and 7 February in Addis Ababa, Turkish diplomats are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the third Turkey-Africa summit, scheduled for September, features prominently on the agenda.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Congo
Sassou receives a fillip from Turkish billionaire Ali Metin Kazanci as he bids for re-election

As Denis Sassou NGuesso seeks a fourth term as president, Aksa Enerji, a firm owned by a Turkish oligarch close to Ankara's ruling party, is speeding up its plans to increase electricity supply to Pointe-Noire, a city that has traditionally been hostile to the Congolese leader.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

DRC
Businessman Roger Abotome's winning political formula

Recently hit by revelations about his business ties with the ex-head of the electoral commission, the businessman Roger Abotome Bekabysia has turned his association with ex-president Joseph Kabila's political movement into a veritable business model.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

West Africa

Ghana
Shell profits from falling out between ENI and state-owned GNPC

The Anglo-Dutch major Shell has taken advantage of the deterioration in relations between the state-owned GNPC and its longstanding partner ENI, whom the government has accused of manoeuvring it into signing an unfavourable contract on Sankofa.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Somalia, Uganda
Kampala Executive Aviation running flights for UPDF in Mogadishu

Enjoying a strong network of connections within the Ugandan army and US Department of Defense, Kampala Executive Aviation is deploying its helicopters in Mogadishu.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Ethiopia
Tigrayan resistance in Kola Tembien dogs Abiy

The Ethiopian government has announced the end of hostilities in Tigray province, but the TPLF, several of whose top leaders are still on the run, has formed pockets of resistance in mountainous areas in the centre of the country.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

South Sudan
Kiir fans flames of ethnic rivalry near Upper Nile oilfields

President Salva Kiir has appointed a Padang Dinka as deputy governor for Upper Nile state, home to over 70% of the country's crude oil output. Though intended as a conciliatry gesture towards this community, it could well spark fresh clashes with Shilluks and Nuers.

Subscribers only Politics

Djibouti
IOG finally gets his foot in the Elysée door

Emmanuel Macron and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, in 2017 in Paris. © Leon Tanguy/MaxPPP

At long last, French president Emmanuel Macron will meet with his Djiboutian counterpart Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) on 12 February.

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Southern Africa and islands

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa's tax gift to mining magnate Tagwirei

The magnate Kuda Tagwirei, who is an advisor to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has been granted a substantial tax exemption on one of his mining companies. He is already suspected of being the éminence grise behind Harare's new parastatal, Kuvimba Mining House.

Subscribers only Mining

South Africa
Russian PhosAgro plots course for big break into local phosphates market

The Russian fertiliser giant has opened two warehouses in Cape Town and plans to soon do the same in Durban so it can directly sell its products to South African clients and boost its presence in the country.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Morocco
Petrol king Dahmane Derham alone at helm of tanker fleet

Sahrawi business baron Dahmane Derham is asserting his control over his oil tankers that bring fuel imported from Spain to the entire kingdom.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Libya
Mohamed Siala sends strategic players to Rome and Washington before the new administration takes over

Mohamed Taher Siala, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Libya in the Government of National Accord. © EPA/MAXPPP

Determined to leave his mark before the change in government, particularly in Rome and Washington, the minister of foreign affairs has placed 171 diplomats in new positions.

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Algeria
Tebboune moves to root out Gaid Salah's legacy in intelligence services and army

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his Chief of Staff Said Chengriha on 10 October 2020. © Algerian Ministry of National Defense

Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his military chief of staff Said Chengriha want to erase the legacy of Chengriha's predecessor Ahmed Gaid Salah, who had put the intelligence services under the control of the army. This major overhaul could take place as soon as the president returns from Germany.

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Algeria
Petrofac files for arbitration at risk of losing Sonatrach markets

The gas installations of In Salah, Algeria. © Petrofac

Petrofac had no other choice but to bring the courts into its dispute with the oil trio Equinor-BP-Sonatrach but may end up paying a high price for the move.

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