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In Focus | Brazil
Bolsonaro under pressure to allow Lula's flagship development bank to return to Africa

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and BNDES president Gustavo Montezano, in March 2020. © Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

Once the financial arm of President Lula da Silva's policy of strengthening ties with Portuguese-speaking Africa, Brazilian development bank BNDES suddenly withdrew from the continent four years ago in the wake of the Lava Jato anti-corruption investigation.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy

Central Africa

DRC
World Bank takes lead in financing Mwinda fund to electrify rural areas

The Congolese authorities hope to raise $500m to bring electricity to rural areas but none of its financial backers have yet committed to a fixed amount.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Gabon
Assala learns from Shell's export mistakes at Gamba terminal

The Carlyle-financed junior Assala Energy is determined to avoid export interruptions. This is how it plans to go about it.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Guinea
Financial intermediary Lilium Capital targets opportunities in agriculture

Best known in Guinea for its banking activites, financial intermediation specialist Lilium Capital, which works out of New York and Burkina Faso, is looking at projects in agriculture, a sector getting strong support from President Alpha Condé.

Subscribers only Business

Ivory Coast
Ouattara follows up on cocoa price increases with national preference quota plan

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on World Cocoa Day, 1 October 2020. © Alassane Ouattara/Twitter

The big agricultural trading houses, which are still resisting the minimum pricing system introduced by Ivory Coast and Ghana last year, now risk seeing their share of the chocolate market reduced in favour of their Ivorian competitors.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Nigeria
Buhari names diplomats for capitals of UN Security Council states

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally made public the names of the 95 ambassadors who will be in their postings until his mandate ends in 2023, with special attention paid to the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Togo
Gnassingbé to pay official visit to France in the spring

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé received at the Elysée Palace by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte in September 2019. © Christophe Morin/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé is due to pay an an official visit to France for several days in the spring.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya, Uganda
Kenyatta dashes Bobi Wine's asylum hopes

Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine. © STR/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Bobi Wine had hoped to challenge his 14 January presidential election defeat to Yoweri Museveni from neighbouring Kenya, but this plan was flatly rejected by Uhuru Kenyatta, who is keen to stay on good terms with his Ugandan counterpart.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Djibouti
IOG and Macron at odds over French military base

French Mirage fighter jets flying over Djibouti. © Ministère de la défense français/EMA - FFDJ

The two presidents fail to see eye to eye on the future of France's base on the Ilôt du Héron.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

South Sudan
South Africa's Safair to resume UNMISS flights

South African cargo carrier Safair Operations has made a South Sudan comeback.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Zambia
Lusaka to list mines alongside Euronext's big players

The national mining company ZCCM-IH is seeking consultants to help it switch Euronext markets in the coming months with the hope this will win over institutional investors, making it less vulnerable to price manipulations and ultimately earn more profit.

Subscribers only Mining

Mozambique
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi irked by Nyusi going it alone

President Filipe Nyusi's non-responsiveness over Cabo Delgado has prompted the Saudi and UAE ambassadors to work together to protect their interests in Mozambique.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

Angola
Qatar Petroleum makes its offshore debut with Total, Sonangol deal

On 1 February, mining and oil minister Diamantino Azevedo signed a decree authorizing the state-owned Qatar Petroleum to take a 30% stake in Block 48.

Subscribers only Energy

Madagascar
Andry Rajoelina looks for a way to respond to the opposition's power drive

Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina. © Yara Nardi/Reuters

Breaking, published on 06/02/21, 7.00 a.m. - Without a prime minister and under heavy pressure from the opposition, the Madagascan president has turned to his closest advisers to help him find a way out of the impasse.

Subscribers only Politics

North Africa

Libya
Libya's executive Bombardier jets still mired in Malta

Maltese courts have settled the case between EACS and UAC over two luxury planes, but the power struggle over who will foot the maintenance bill to get them back in the air continues.

Subscribers only Business

Morocco
Ex-ONCF maintenance director Mustapha Hanyn starts out in consultancy

The director of maintenance at the national railway operator ONCF, and head of production of its subsidiary Infraway Maroc until January, Mustapha Hanyn is moving on.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

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