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In Focus | Africa
The African secrets of wealth management firm Helin International

Alexey Alexandrovitch Korotaev, Anastasiya Abramova, Hedayatollah Bakhtari Musa, Aleksei Korotaev. © Montage Studio Pachamama // Africa Intelligence // AFP/Marcel Van Hoorn/ANP // Alamy Banque d'images/ Stephan Langhans / byvalet / Juergen Ritterbach / Matyas Rehak / Lesia Chuprynska / Ivan Vdovin

The hunt for the firm's embezzled funds continues. From Dubai to Djibouti, via Kyiv and Dar es Salaam, tens of millions of dollars have passed through suspicious entities. US, Swiss and French investigators are continuing their probes into a complex financial network controlled by Russians.

Subscribers only Finance

Central Africa

DRC
Sonahydroc's management fraught with tension over mysterious Omani deal

Relations are strained among the leadership of Sonahydroc, the Congolese state-owned oil company, over a deal struck in late 2022 with an Omani firm for delivery of petroleum products.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Mauritania
Army gets two new public works contracts

Mauritania's military engineering corps has just secured two healthy, public works contracts worth $22m for projects in Nouakchott.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
African Union set to decide on who should secure Khartoum airport

Satellite image of Khartoum International Airport, 17 April 2023. © Courtesy of Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters

It is currently impossible to fly into the Sudanese capital because of the fighting. The AU is in the process of deciding how best to secure the site so that humanitarian workers and African and Western mediators can begin their work on the ground.

Free access Defence, Diplomacy

Tanzania
Media organisations make a cautious comeback under Samia Suluhu Hassan

President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks after the swearing-in ceremony in March 2021. © STR/AFP

The Tanzanian president is little by little relaxing restrictions on the country's media, which faced constant persecution under her predecessor, John Magufuli. She has not yet revoked the restrictive laws introduced by the previous administration, however.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana
President Masisi stifles debate on diamond renegotiations

As the government edges closer to clinching a new agreement with diamond giant De Beers and puts the finishing touches on its partnership deal with Belgian trader HB Antwerp, Gaborone has tended to brush off any criticism by attributing it to the opposition behind former president Ian Khama.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders

South Africa
Riyadh donates $3m to oil lobbyist NJ Ayuk's African Energy Week

Saudi Arabia recently committed $3m to African Energy Week to be held in Cape Town in October 2023. The event is organised by the African Energy Chamber oil lobby chaired by NJ Ayuk.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Libya
Emirati ADNOC gets into Ghadames basin game

National Oil Corp continues to look for foreign investments and is in discussions with three industry giants over the exploration of oil and gas fields in the Ghadames Basin. They include Emirati ADNOC, a further sign of the recent financial interest Abu Dhabi has for Libya.

Subscribers only Energy

Egypt
Sudan war deals fresh blow to struggling Egyptian economy

The risk of disrupted food supplies from Sudan has sparked fears of further price hikes in Egypt, while Cairo's exports to its southern neighbour, its third-biggest market in Africa, may also be badly hit.

Subscribers only Business

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