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Spotlight | DRC
Tshisekedi seeks to renegotiate Kabila-era deals with China

DRC's President Felix Tshisekedi meets with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kinshasa. © Gao Junya / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

The Congolese government is trying to renegotiate contracts signed with Beijing during the long reign of former president Joseph Kabila. Some of their terms are now deemed contrary to the national interest.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Central Africa

Central African Republic, France
Russia's presence further widens wedge in Paris-Bangui axis

Cuts to French aid, a freeze on military cooperation... relations between Paris and Bangui continue to cool. France suspects several of Touadéra's close advisors of waging anti-French campaigns while Russia is not far from the picture.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa
After Abidjan, Mikati family's ACC prospects in Brazzaville and Douala

Arabian Construction Co (ACC), having lost its position as the leading construction contractor in the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, has been redeploying in Africa since last year and recently sent a delegation to Cameroon and later to Brazzaville.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Total said to be backing out of Abidjan LNG import terminal

For a time, Total was the leader of the CI-GNL consortium in charge of the construction and operation of the future gas import terminal in Vridi, south of Abidjan, but it seems to have thrown in the towel.

Subscribers only Energy

Guinea
Under IMF's watchful eye, Conakry cracks down on money-laundering

At the end of April, Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana had to give the International Monetary Fund proof of progress in the fight against financial crime. The National Assembly passed a law on the subject the same month.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics

Niger
Bazoum turns to Eastern Europe to beef up his air force

Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum. © Tagaza Djibo/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Barely elected as Niger's new president, Mohamed Bazoum wants to acquire a new attack helicopter for the air force. He intends to pursue other acquisitions in Eastern Europe, despite accusations of irregularities in contracts concluded in recent years with Ukrainian and Russian companies.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Guinea
Prospectors seek nickel and platinum near Dinguiraye gold mine

Tinkisso Ressources, a new Guinean company, in mid-April applied for a permit to look for nickel and platinum near Dinguiraye, which is better known for its gold mines.

Subscribers only Mining

Sahel
Madrid to provide helicopters for EU mission in Mali

Spain plans to send part of its fleet of NH90 helicopters, made by the European manufacturer NHIndustries, to Mali in the second half of 2021.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Burhan and Hemeti questioned over Khartoum massacre

Generals Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo are being questioned about the chain of command on 3 June 2019 when armed forces opened fire on protestors and at least 127 people were killed.

Subscribers only Politics

Somalia
Amid political crisis, AU yet to name special envoy

The African Union decided last week to appoint an emissary to Somalia to lift the country out of its political impasse and pave the way for elections by the end of the year.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Kenya
John Ngumi seeks to crown himself king of Kenyan logistics

John Ngumi, head of the state-owned Industrial & Commercial Development Corp. © LinkedIn

The former banker, now head of the parastatal Industrial & Commercial Development Corp (ICDC), is lobbying the Treasury and the president's office to take control of Kenya's ports, railways, and pipelines.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
TechnipFMC leaves ENI in the lurch on Coral FLNG

The French-US oil services giant has decided to follow the general retreat from Mozambique's Cabo Delgado region begun by Total.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Algeria, Tunisia
New Stellantis regional manager facing baptism of fire

Hakim Boutehra, director of the new European automobile giant's Maghreb activities, will start the job facing an explosive law suit in Tunisia with Citroën and a blocked factory in Oran for Peugeot amid a brewing diplomatic crisis between France and Algeria.

Subscribers only Business

Libya, Tunisia
Tunisair's Libya link struggles under fallout from Covid and insurance premiums

The re-opening of the Tunisia-Libya air link first scheduled for November 2020 and then on 27 April, has been pushed back once again.

Subscribers only Business

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