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Spotlight | Ethiopia
Large companies under threat of tax clampdown in Ethiopia

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks in Parliament during a session to approve the country's 2024/25 budget in Addis Ababa, on 4 July 2024. © Tiksa Negeri/Reuters

Grappling with a chronic shortage of revenue, the Ethiopian government is tightening the screws on foreign investors. The new budget, explained by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed last week, is part of this trend.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

Chad
Mahamat Idriss Déby expected at Elysée Palace

Chadian president Mahamat Idriss Deby in N'Djamena on 23 May 2024. © Joris Bolomey / AFP

The Chadian president is due to meet Emmanuel Macron in Paris on 15 July. Their discussions will focus on the future of France's presence in Chad.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

DRC, Rwanda
Who is Stockholm's candidate for EU Great Lakes representative post?

Among the candidates that member states have put forward for the post of European Union special representative for the Great Lakes region is Swedish diplomat Johan Borgstam.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Cotton king Koné Daouda Soukpafolo set to acquire Versus Bank

The Ivorian businessman who heads up EKDS is finalising his bid to buy the state-owned Versus Bank.

Subscribers only Finance

Nigeria
Interior minister looks to absorb customs and anti-drugs agencies

The Minister of the Interior is hoping to get his hands on three major Nigerian institutions after taking over the first in September 2023.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Spotlight | Africa
The Rassemblement National's African legion

Marine Le Pen with Jordan Bardella, President of the French far-right Rassemblement National party, Paris, France, 9 June 2024. © Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

The French far-right party, which is at the gates of power, has been trying for a decade to spin its web in African presidential palaces. To achieve this, it has formed a close-knit guard with a strong presence on the continent.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Senegal
Dakar set to call time on Akon's smart city project

US-Senegalese singer Akon at the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles, 30 June 2024. © Michael Tran/AFP

The Senegalese government is preparing to take back 50 of the 55 hectares granted to the Senegalese-born US musician in 2020 for a smart city megaproject if work does not resume within a fortnight. The remaining five hectares were sold to the star as a land deed.

Subscribers only Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Djibouti, Somalia, Somaliland
Djibouti-Somaliland tensions rise

President of Somaliland Muse Bihi (left) and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti. © Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu/Eduardo Soteras/AFP

The presidents of Djibouti and Somaliland have accused each other of destabilisation. Djibouti is quietly training new republican guard recruits and denies any malice towards its neighbour, but is having trouble digesting the deal Somaliland signed with Ethiopia in January.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Lundin Group says its goodbyes to Africa

The family-owned Swedish group is little by little withdrawing from its oil and gas activities on the continent. The chief executives of Africa Oil and Africa Energy Corp have already left.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Algeria
New internal intelligence chief reallocates Algeria's media supervision

The once highly influential broadcasting and communications centre has been shut down at the request of Algeria's new head of internal intelligence, Abdelkader Haddad.

Subscribers only Defence

Morocco
French Egis-Systra duo still in running for Kenitra-Marrakech high-speed rail line

French Egis teamed up with compatriot Systra and Moroccan Novec in the race against Spanish engineering giant Ineco to win the project management contract for the high-speed rail line connecting Kenitra and Marrakech.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

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