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Spotlight | Guinea, Turkey
Coup stops Turkey's Africa push in its tracks

Turkish Ambassador to Guinea Volkan Türk Vural (left) during a meeting with Guinean Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana on 21 April 2021. © Office of the Republic of Guinea/Twitter

Turkey's diplomats have been hard-wired to reject military rule ever since the failed 2016 coup attempt in Ankara, but they now find themselves having to make pragmatic choices with Guinea's new leaders to maintain an air of influence.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

DRC
Lualaba interim governor lets ore trading posts flourish to keep the peace

Lualaba vice governor Fifi Masuka Saini. © Fifi Masuka Saini/Facebook

Illegal ore trading posts have been springing up in Lualaba after Richard Muyej took leave and his deputy Fifi Masuka has opted to avoid tensions until her position is more secure.

Subscribers only Mining

Central African Republic
Voyageur Aviation and Heli Air take MINUSCA peacekeepers to the skies

Drawing on solid experience working in African skies, the private Canadian and Bulgarian operators will soon be transporting troops for the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic under General Traoré's command.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

DRC
Miga to the rescue of North Kivu's solar plans

Nuru (formely Kivu Green Energy), a DRC electricity company which is already active in North Kivu where it manages two solar mini-off-grids, has plans to expand in the area to raise its total output to 15.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

West Africa

West Africa
How the World Bank plans to distribute $465m pledge to regional power pool

The Bretton Woods institution has committed to financing an ambitious project to beef up the West African Power Pool (WAPP). Niger, Senegal, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, and Mali are the main beneficiaries.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

France, West Africa
Victor Fotso's death comes back to haunt American Hospital of Paris

The private clinic located in the French capital and favoured by African VIPs, is facing a claim for "negligence" and "fraud" relating to its treatment of the late business tycoon Victor Fotso, from Cameroon, who died in the hospital on 19 March 2020.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Rwanda
Kigali financial hub moves closer to its Singaporean model

The new agreement between KIFC and the Monetary Authority of Singapore enshrines President Kagame's ambition to emulate the Asian city-state, a global benchmark in offshore finance.

Free access Finance, Politics

Kenya
Kenyatta battles to revive trade talks with EU and US

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) met European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels in June 2021. © State House Kenya/Twitter

Although President Uhuru Kenyatta wants Kenya to play a leadership role on trade liberalisation in Africa, his trade minister, Betty Maina, is struggling to get trade talks going in Brussels and Washington.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Lesotho
Maseru takes a hard line with diamond producers

Following the recent inauguration of the first diamond mine owned by a Mosotho, the government is looking for an independent diamond valuer to reduce reliance on selling prices decided by the mining companies. It is also considering raising the bar regarding the minimum local shareholding in foreign mining ventures.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
What really went on behind NOC boss Sanalla's pseudo sacking

From left to right: Libyan Minister of Hydrocarbons Mohamed Aoun, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) Abdelhamid Dabaiba and NOC boss Mustafa Sanalla. © Government of National Unity/Twitter

The chairman of the Libyan national oil company was suspended then brought back in the space of ten days. The whole affair proved to be an act staged by prime minister Dabaiba with help from his ally, the vice minister of hydrocarbons Al Abbar.

Subscribers only Energy

Morocco
Gazoduc Maghreb Europe : break with Algiers prompts crisis summit between Naturgy and ONHYM

Antonio Basolas, the Spanish company's boss, met Amina Benkhadra, Morocco's top official for hydrocarbons and mines, in Rabat to discuss the future of the Maghreb Europe gas pipeline. The project is under threat following the recent rift between Algeria and Morocco.

Subscribers only Energy

Algeria
Lamamra's robust diplomacy aims to regain initiative on Sahel, Libya, Sahara

Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra. © Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

The foreign minister's major diplomatic reshuffle is aimed at restoring Algeria's pre-eminence in the Sahel and in the handling of the crisis in Libya, where arch rival Morocco is trying to muscle in.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Egypt
Who will be the next ambassador of Egypt to the European Union?

Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry is set to appoint his deputy responsible for European affairs, Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty, to replace Khaled Aly el-Bakly as the head of Egypt's ambassador to the #EU.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

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