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Spotlight | Africa
IMF sets up anti-corruption unit and ponders making governance a condition for lending

The international financial institution is considering incorporating governance and anti-corruption into the conditionality of its lending programmes and for first time in its history has set up an anti-corruption unit.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

Central Africa
CEMAC struggles to draw up its 2022 spending programme

The extraordinary meeting was called by CEMAC chairman, former Gabonese prime minister Daniel Ona Ondo. © Facebook/Commission CEMAC

The institution headed by former Gabonese prime minister Daniel Ona Ondo has set its 2022 spending programme at 94bn CFA francs. This looks like an increase on the previous year but, in fact, the failure of member states to pay their contributions will lead to a drastic reduction in its operating costs.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Chad
Government requests doubling departure bonus in ExxonMobil/Savannah deal

The financials of the major's departure from the Doba Basin are being hashed out with the Chadian authorities. The matter is being taken up by the president's new secretary general.

Subscribers only Energy

DRC
Businessman Eric Monga serves his partner PowerChina notice on Sombwe dam

Kipay Investments's boss Eric Monga. © Kipay Investments

Kipay Investments' boss Eric Monga has chastised his partner Chinese construction giant PowerChina, with whom he is associated for construction of the 150 MW hydroelectric power station in Upper Katanga, for not respecting the project's timeline.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Gabon
Azerbaijani trader Coral Energy to replace Augusta

Coral Energy, a small structure, just won a highly-profitable contract from the Gabonese state-run oil company for one of its most sought-after products. The company that previously handled the contract is fighting SOGARA in court.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders

Chad, Sahel
Brussels and Madrid equip Chad's elite forces

Europe's GARSI (Rapid Action Groups - Monitoring and Intervention in the Sahel) project is to provide minidrones, body armour and uniforms to elite units in Chad.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Cameroon
Castel management in limbo after truck accident death

Emmanuel de Tailly, the boss of Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun, a Castel Group subsidiary, has tendered his resignation after an accident involving one of the firm's vehicles that resulted in a death. But it is not expected to be accepted.

Subscribers only Business

West Africa

Africa
Orange and MTN to share African telco towers

French Orange and South African MTN are considering sharing their telecommunications towers in the six African countries where they are both active. They have reportedly asked McKinsey to research the idea.

Subscribers only Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Civil war reignites Somali-Afar tensions

As Afar forces battle with Tigray Defense Forces in the region's north-west, Somali-Issa and Afar communities have begun fighting in the south-east.

Subscribers only Politics

Kenya
Kenyatta bestows honorary environmental awards on close allies before leaving office

Mark Rose (right), head of Fauna & Flora International. © Najib Balala/Twitter

As his term comes to a close, the Kenyan president has made a number of prominent public figures in his administration "honorory wardens" for their efforts to protect the environment, a largely symbolic title which adds weight when mobilising foreign investments for tourism projects.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Lesotho, SADC, South Africa
Josias van Zyl inches towards compensation for sunken diamonds

Josias van Zyl has won the latest battle in the legal war he has been waging on Lesotho and South Africa over the loss of his diamond concessions that were submerged thirty years ago when the huge Katse Dam was filled.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Morocco
Ukraine crisis puts Rabat's plans to diversify its gas supplies on pause

The sharp increase in European gas prices resulting from the Russian-Ukrainian war has raised questions over Morocco's plans to import gas from Spain now that it is no longer taking gas from Algeria. Rabat has slowed plans to reverse gas flows between Morocco and Spain and install a floating barge.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Algeria, Morocco
Morocco and Algeria hooked on Brazil's raw sugar

To satisfy the region's persistent sweet tooth despite the current surge in sugar prices, sugar producers Cosumar, from Morocco, and Algeria's Cevital, have little choice but to keep buying their supplies from Brazil, for which they rely on increasingly dominant heavyweights such as Sao Paulo's Raizen and Copersucar.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

North Africa
TLS Group prospers with German visas

TLS Group is boosting its presence in Africa in the field of visa application management for European countries.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

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