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Spotlight | Libya
UNSMIL chief Jan Kubis seeks security affairs deputy

Jan Kubis, UN Special Envoy for Libya. © Kay Nietfeld/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The UN mission's new number two will oversee the disarmament and reintegration of militia forces as well as security sector reform, two crucial processes that for now are going nowhere.

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Central Africa

Chad, Sahel
Chad feels let down by EU and France as it battles on the Sahel and Libyan fronts

Chadian leader Mahamat Idriss Deby and French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the state funeral of late Chadian president Idriss Deby in N'Djamena, Chad, 23 April 2021. © Christophe Petit Tesson/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

As it ramps up its air operations against rebel groups in Libya at the same time as battling in the Sahel amid France's military drawdown there, Chad reckons France and the EU are falling short in their support.

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DRC
MPs ease off on ex-speaker Mabunda's money management

Jeanine Mabunda, in the 8th of October 2020,when she was leading the DRC's National Assembly. © Assemblée nationale RDC

A report on the Congolese parliament's finances highlights the real cost of its members' wages, totalling some $45m for 2020. It also counters the criticism of house speaker Jeannine Mabunda at the time of her dismissal in December.

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Chad
Why Delonex is talking with ex-Tullow Oil boss

Paul McDade needs to secure a first asset on the double so that he can launch his new company in style.

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Central African Republic
Lebanese firms battle over passport contract

Al Madina, which makes ID cards and other documents for Central African Republic citizens, wants to snatch the biometric passport contract held since 20210 by compatriot Africard.

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West Africa

Ghana, Rwanda
Maltese former political adviser pitches for consultancy work in Rwanda and Ghana

The co-founder of Seed Consultancy Jean-Paul Fabri. © Seed Consultancy

With his firm Seed Consultancy, former political adviser Jean-Paul Fabri is looking for business from African states. One of his avenues: his skills in economic policy and financial services, as his firm also does financial structuring for companies and the very wealthy.

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Guinea
Revamped mines ministry takes Soguipami back from Alpha Condé

The recent reorganisation of Guinea's mines ministry appears to have put it in charge once again of state-owned Soguipami. It also created several departments to help the country's key mining sector catch up with the modern world.

Subscribers only Mining

Gambia, Senegal
Gambian National Petroleum Company to train with Petrosen pending FAR drill results

Gambia will have its eyes fixed on the results of FAR's drilling campaign on offshore block A2 expected by the end of the year.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Act II of debt reduction to play out in Paris next week

Late last month Sudan returned the IMF's and the World Bank's fold, winning an initial $2.4bn loan as well as integration into the HIPC debt reduction initiative. Next week it is due negotiate a mammoth debt write-off package in the French capital.

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Africa, UAE
Africa Finance Corp prospects Emirati sovereign fund

The head of financial services at Africa Finance Corp (AFC), Sanjeev Gupta, will chair the first meeting in the United Arab Emirates of Invest Africa, a club founded by South African businessman Rob Hersov, on 13 July.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Comoros islands, France
Azali Assoumani tries to please France by tightening up control over migration to Mayotte

The Comoran president is trying to strengthen the surveillance capacities of his security forces in an attempt to curb the large-scale migration of his compatriots to the French island of Mayotte.

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Botswana
Debswana said to be seeking buyer for its Damtshaa mine

With the diamond sector battered by the coronavirus pandemic, Botswana giant Debswana is reportedly considering selling its Damtshaa mine, the smallest of its four operating sites.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Tunisia
Washington relaunches its plan to install surveillance aerostats on the border with Libya

Six years of consolidating the Libyan border. © Africa Intelligence/Indigo Publications-2021

The US justice department's counterterrorism division has revived its plan to acquire balloons to keep the border between Libya and Tunisia under surveillance. Following the failure of Lockheed Martin and TCOM, two other US firms are still in the running.

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