Turkish paramilitary company Sadat, headed by former Turkish general Adnan Tanriverdi, has set up a partnership with Fawzi Boukatif-led Libyan company Security Side to train the forces fighting for Fayez Sarraj's Government of National Accord.
Not only is the Cameroonian president's own health failing but so too that of his constitutionally designated replacements.
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Politics Having taken on Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein in the courts and defended Playboy against the White House, the American lawyer Theodore Boutrous has now been retained by the computer maker Dell in a case involving alleged forced labour in Congolese mines.
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Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been trying for several weeks to bring his influence to bear on the situation in the Sahel. He is relying particularly on African Union peace and security commissioner Smaïl Chergui, who is leading an intense lobbying operation in favour of deployment of a 3,000-strong AU force in the region.
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Oil junior Tullow Oil presses on with its disengagement from the exportation of crude oil from the Turkana region.
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Energy Businessman Benson Ndeta is set to provide his Savannah cement firm with a clinker factory, taking on Kenya's market leader, Narendra Raval's Devki Group.
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Business With no end in sight to protests in the United States against police violence targeting African-Americans sparked by the 25 May death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, US embassies are worried about potential fallout in several African countries.
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State-owned Qatar Petroleum, which has been increasingly buying into African offshore blocks, is looking to further its expansion drive in the Namibe Basin, one of American major Exxonmobil's most promising exploration zones.
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Energy The South African banks RMB and Standard Bank are providing substantial financial backing for Total's Offshore Area 1 liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique with the help of experienced oil and gas financiers.
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Energy Hungary, which in 2018 supported Angolan energy projects carried out by Portugal's Aenergy and its US partner General Electric, is again working to support the country's electrification.
The minister of industry is due to select a business intelligence firm to set up a new strategic monitoring arsenal. Though he has often favoured foreign consultants in the past, this time he may be inclined to recruit more "locally".
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Business The Armée Nationale Populaire is making little headway in the sphere of cybsersecurity. A planned centre to counter cyber-attacks is already behind schedule.
