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The New Guard
Guinea, Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

GuineaIbrahima Touré, the man on a mission to rebrand Guinea

SenegalAminata Kane Ndiaye, Orange Money's new boss in Dakar

KenyaNerima Wako-Ojiwa battles fake news

NigeriaSomachi Chris-Asoluka, Africapitalism's new ambassador

Congo, France
Congo leader's Falcon 7X remains trapped in legal tussle with Commisimpex

The legal tussle between the Congo state and the Lebanese firm Commisimpex over Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso's seized Falcon 7X continues after a French court on 29 March rejected an appeal from Congo to suspend the aircraft's sale.

Central African Republic, China
Beijing evacuates 80 Chinese nationals following killing of nine miners

Two weeks after the mysterious killing of nine Chinese miners in central CAR, a special Hainan Airlines flight called at Bangui-M'Poko International Airport to repatriate 80 Chinese nationals.

Burkina Faso
Junta pressures mining industry into contributing to war effort

The junta, which is in financial difficulty, particularly because of the cost of its battle with the armed groups rife in northern and eastern Burkina Faso, is doing all it can to get its hands on the cash generated by the mines.

Mali
Antonio Guterres to deliver MINUSMA ultimatum to junta leader Goïta

The UN mission in Mali has been hampered politically and operationally by the ruling junta. The UN secretary-general is now drawing up a list of conditions the junta must meet if the mission is to stay on in the country.

Kenya
Privatisation bill divides Ruto majority

The Kenyan executive is to submit a bill to the National Assembly which, if passed, would allow it to launch the privatisation of state firms without having to obtain parliamentary approval. The measure, which was not in President Ruto's election manifesto, is causing concern even within the coalition government.

Ethiopia, Kenya
Court hearings on Facebook moderators lawsuits put Meta on the spot in Nairobi

The social media behemoth, which farmed out the moderation of East African Facebook posts to subcontractors based in Nairobi, has failed to extract itself from legal proceedings brought against two of its subcontractors.

South Africa
Unions spark trouble for new electricity minister's Eskom plans

New electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramogkopa's speeches have angered the main union leaders at the troubled state-owned power utility. The heads of NUM and Solidarity hold that corruption is at the crux of the woes of Eskom and its employees.

Algeria
Sonatrach boss Toufik Hakkar barred from Houston trip by presidency

Toufik Hakkar, head of Algerian oil and gas company Sonatrach was prevented from making a trip to the United States by the presidency. His efforts to get the army chief of staff to help him keep his job displeased Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

Ghana, Libya
EU and UN consider sending AVs seized off Libyan coast to Ghana

The EU and UN are considering sending the armoured vehicles seized last October on the Dutch cargo ship MV Meerdijk by the EU's Irini sea patrol to Ghana to reinforce the country's armed forces.