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Spotlight | Algeria
ENI remains on course to become oil number one

The Italian major ENI is working to consolidate its stature as Algeria's future leading private oil and gas producer. It is preparing to buy BHP Billiton's assets, as well as BP's.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

DRC
Congo hold-up investigation: Simon Cong's affairs flourish while Global Witness preps fresh revelations

The Chinese middleman Simon Cong was named in the Congo hold-up report on embezzlement by the Kabila family, and is about to be named in another investigation. He has recently expanded his mining interests in the DRC.

Subscribers only Mining

Gabon
Colas in the hot seat over cost of Libreville motorway upgrade

For asphalting the road, it was estimated that the firm Colas charged €15m per kilometre. © Facebook Groupe Colas

The Gabonese authorities are contesting the price Bouygues subsidiary Colas is charging to upgrade the sole road that provides access to the capital city.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Congo
The great sell-off of Congo's real estate is underway

The sale of two real estate assets belonging to Congo, to the benefit of Orange and Lebanese businessman Mohsen Hojeij's Commisimpex, is likely to be less lucrative than expected.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Senegal
Airbus, Arquus and Safran schmooze African decision-makers at Dakar Forum

Macky Sall, President of Senegal, at the Dakar International Forum for Peace and Security. © @DakarForum

French defence industry giants, hoping to beat off stiff competition in Africa with solid support from Paris, used the Dakar Forum to cosy up to the continent's leaders and try to consolidate their positions.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Mali
New sanctions against Bamako on the agenda for 12 December Ecowas summit

ECOWAS meeting on the 7th November 2021 at Accra. © Présidence de la République du Bénin

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold an official summit on 12 December and the Malian situation will be at the centre of discussions in which all the heads of state of the West African organisation are due to participate.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Nigeria
What next for the $42 million from Galactica Star super-yacht sale?

Enron Nigeria Power Holdings, a subsidiary of the defunct gas giant Enron, still has its eye on part of this sum.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
The Gogo hydroelectric dam's potential for the mining industry

The project to quadruple the capacity of the small 2MW Gogo hydropower plant in south-western Kenya (Migori County), on the border with Tanzania, has been given a major boost.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Botswana Diamonds eyes Angolan stones

South Africa's Vutomi Mining, a subsidiary of John Teeling's Botswana Diamonds, has created a new Angolan investment structure. This comes as international investors are making a comeback in the country.

Free access Mining

United Kingdom, Zimbabwe
House of Lords' finger pointing disrupts London-Harare rapprochement

The concern shown by members of the UK parliament over human rights issues in Zimbabwe has infuriated President Emmerson Mnangagwa, members of his government and ZANU-PF officials.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Morocco
CCCC eyes gas terminal deal and rail project after Tanger Tech victory

The Chinese state construction giant and its subsidiary CRBC, in association with the Wison group, hope to snag the contract to build Morocco's first floating regasification unit (FSRU). The unit will allow the kingdom to import gas by ship, after Algeria shut down the GME pipeline.

Subscribers only Business

Tunisia
Kaïs Saïed to keep a more watchful eye on Tunisians in France

Former Tunisian Interior Minister Ridha Gharsallaoui. © Presidency of Tunisia handout/EPA/MaxPPP

Appointed as consul in Paris by President Saïed, the former Minister of the Interior Ridha Gharsallaoui will increase the surveillance of the Tunisian diaspora in France. A security attaché, Maher Addala, had already started work on this at the beginning of the summer, taking over from Lazhar Loungou.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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