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Spotlight | Africa
Scathing audit fails to shift AU's discretionary hiring processes

The African Union's member states have been tyring to get the commission to shake up its human resources department following a string of damning reports but so far to little avail.

Subscribers only Politics

The Continent

Africa
Carlos Lopes lobbies the international institutions for industrial platform developer Arise IIP

Guinea-Bissau economist Carlos Lopes. © Ángel Medina G./EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Economist Carlos Lopes, who is at once a senior international civil servant, an economy professor and a consultant, is trying to help Arise IIP to develop industrial zones in Africa without crossing swords with the international financial institutions

Free access Finance, Commodity traders

Central Africa

DRC
Tshisekedi fights back against Dig Oil over $619m arbitration ruling

The president is expected to revoke the 2018 settlement with South African oil firm Dig Oil and go back to court.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa
Moscow uses civil defence as lever of influence

The Russian foreign ministry cherishes its relations with the International Civil Defence Organisation, whose member states are due to gather in Abidjan in October.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

DRC
Corneille Nangaa prevails against Rawbank in US sanctions dispute

Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo, président de la Commission électorale nationale indépendante (CENI) de RDC. © Stefan Kleinowitz/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The agricultural business interests of the national electoral commission's chairman had suffered under the measures taken by Washington.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics

West Africa

Sierra Leone
A second bauxite mine ready for production?

Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio is ready to compete with its bauxite-producing neighbour Guinea as Supreme Minerals promises it will be able to start exporting from its new mine by 2023.

Subscribers only Mining

France, Nigeria
France pulls out all the stops for Wigwe's Access Bank new Paris branch

The French government is fostering its ties with Nigeria's captains of industry, and in particular Herbert Wigwe, who recently announced that his bank would open a Paris branch.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Senegal
Damen Shipyards beats off Turkey's Desan and Tais

The Dutch shipyard has been contracted to deliver three military logistics ships to the Senegalese navy, even though two rival Turkish firms were favourites for the business. These ships could help improve the army's deployments in the insurgent province of Casamance.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Ivory Coast
Behind the scenes of Ouattara and Gabgbo's cold war

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on his return to Abidjan on 17 June 2021. © Macline Hien/Reuters

Despite attempts by their entourage to bring them together, the dividing lines between former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and his successor are getting clearer.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Tanzania
Ex-president Jakaya Kikwete uses influence with Samia Suluhu Hassan to China's favour

Tanzania's former head of state Jakaya Kikwete with Tanzania's president Samia Suluhu Hassan. © Evrard Ngendakumana/Reuters

Former Tanzanian head of state Jakaya Kikwete, who was sidelined during the presidency of John Magufuli, has become an unofficial adviser to new president Samia Suluhu Hassan. He has been pressing for China Merchants' giant Bagamoyo port project, blocked under Magufuli, to resume.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Tsogo Sun's Western Cape legal victory changes the game in the local casino business

By contesting a decision taken by the gaming authority in the Western Cape, casino and hotels giant Tsogo Sun has won a legal victory but has also forced the province to review its gaming legislation.

Subscribers only Business

North Africa

Inner circles | Libya
Libyan Coast Guard under the influence of Libyan militias and foreign governments

Rescued illegal migrants are taken to the Tripoli navy base in the capital of Tripoli. © Hamza Turkia/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

With attempts by migrants to cross the Mediterranean from Libya on the increase and the European Union trying to set up its migration controls ever further from its own borders, Libya's coast guards are facing all kinds of pressures, from Libyans and foreign governments alike.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Tunisia
Moez Chakchouk takes charge at the port of Radès to ensure it gets $330m in US aid

Tunisia's transport minister Moez Chakchouk. © Jdidi Wassim/SOPA Images/Sipa via Reuters Connect

Foued Othman, adviser to transport minister Moez Chakchouk, is to move to the ports and merchant marine office. His job will be to ensure that the partial privatisation planned for the port of Rades is carried out, enabling it to receive a $330m grant from the US's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Libya, Russia
Chief of staff Mohamed Al Haddad heads to Moscow

Libyan army chief of staff Mohamed Al Haddad is due to travel to Moscow on 10 July 10 for a five-day visit.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

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