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Spotlight | Tanzania
Tony Blair, Samia Suluhu Hassan's new ally

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair with the president of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan. © Présidence tanzanienne

The Tanzanian president has hired the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to handle two of her administration's key projects. Britain's former prime minister has been tasked with restoring Tanzania's image among foreign investors and with advising the government on Covid-19.

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Central Africa

Inner circles | Gabon
Eco-diplomat Lee White marshals his green warriors on eve of COP26

Gabonese Minister of the Environment Lee White (left), with President Ali Bongo, 28 September 2021. © @PresidentABO/Twitter

Having progressed in the space of a decade from head of national parks to architect of the green diplomatic strategy that Gabon is trying to promote throughout the world, Gabonese environment minister Lee White is running his campaign with a handful of key collaborators.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Cameroon
Bidders queue up to build new oil pipeline for port of Douala

In mid-September the Société camerounaise des dépôts pétroliers (SCDP) issued a restricted call for tenders to construct a 4 km oil pipeline at a cost of FCFA 3,935bn (€6m) linking the terminal to the Bessengué storage facility.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Energy

West Africa

Mali
African Gold bigs up its prospective new Malian gold mine

The Canadian junior, which is looking for finance to build its Kobada gold mine in Mali, has issued a stream of bullish statements about the site. The highlight of the charm offensive was the publication of its final feasibility study.

Subscribers only Mining

Ivory Coast
Ouattara finalises purchase of Bouygues stake in Socoprim

Henri-Konan-Bédié bridge in Abidjan. © Bouygues construction

The Ivorian state has signed off on its acquisition of the French construction group's shares in Socoprim, the company that runs a major toll bridge in Abidjan.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics

Mauritania
French operator Orange set to connect the country's overlooked interior

Faced with a failing internet network that has not been adequately rolled out in the country's interior, Nouakchott is working with French operator Orange on a broadband cable project estimated to cost nearly €150m.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Mali
MINUSMA finally deploys its MAG Aerospace surveillance aircraft

Since late September, the UN peacekeeping force in Mali has been deploying surveillance aircraft supplied by the US military contractor MAG Aerospace. A bolstering of its capacities that comes at an opportune moment as the troops of France's Operation Barkhane get ready to withdraw from the north of the country.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Nigeria
UK court of appeal blocks pollution class action against Shell

The UK courts recently inflicted a setback on the 27,830 Nigerian claimants in the Shell FPSO oil spill case, ruling that a class action cannot be brought.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Rwanda
Indra, AirMap and Innov'ATM battle for Kigali airport security contract

Several air security firms are in the race to bag the lucrative security contract for the Rwandan capital's airport. Innov'ATM's bid will get a boost from the upcoming visit of France's trade minister, who is on a mission to promote French business in Rwanda.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Horn of Africa
Macron bolsters French presence in Horn

Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and French president Emmanuel Macron. © Ian Langsdon/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Ambassador Frédéric Clavier is to be France's new special envoy for the Horn of Africa. His job will be to follow the conflict in Tigray and consolidate the work of his predecessor in Sudan since 2019.

Free access Diplomacy

Kenya
Kenyatta's risky strategy over Pandora Papers revelations

Breaking news published on 07/10/21 at 1.00 p.m. - The Kenyan president was abroad when the international investigation into tax avoidance broke. He has been making frantic phone calls to Kenya's political heavyweights ever since to convince them, without success, to reveal their own offshore investments.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

SADC, Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa touts tobacco industry progress in bid to get Western sanctions lifted

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa. © Aaron Ufumeli/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Emmerson Mnangagwa knows that in order to get Western sanctions lifted he needs to give his country's strategic tobacco sector a facelift. To this end he sent his top lieutenants to sweet talk international NGOs at a special SADC meeting.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Libya
EU calls for closer migration cooperation between Libya, Niger and Frontex

To shift the burden of migration control to the Sahel, the European Union is considering a partnership between EUBAM in Libya, EUCAP Sahel Niger and the European border guard agency Frontex.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Tunisia
Tunis takes delivery of its first Turkish armed drones

In late September Tunisia took delivery of its first Anka-S armed drones.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

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