The second development phase of the giant Grand Tortue Ahmeyim gas field will not be as ambitious as Macky Sall and Mohamed Ould Ghazouani had hoped. As for the third...
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The youthful heir to the Israeli Rapaport diamond family is leveraging his extensive network for the benefit of international clients hoping to invest in African agribusiness.
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Founded by Joseph Kabila's former prime minister, Congo Challenge has won a contract to help the government with its post-Covid economic policy.
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Business In his speech on 6 December to enact the coalition between his party, Cap Pour le Changement (CACH), and Joseph Kabila's Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC), Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi seems to have omitted a constitutional provision.
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Guinean authorities found holes in Niron Metals' feasibility study for the Zogota iron ore project.
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Mining Ghanaian authorities are up in arms after Tullow Oil replaced local managers with foreign ones. The British junior is trying to make amends.
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Energy The former prime minister and National Assembly speaker, who was banned from running in the presidential elections in mid-November, has begun a low-profile regional tour to plead his case in different ECOWAS capitals.
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Politics CNPS, Ivory Coast's pension fund for private sector workers, is continuing its drive to invest in the domestic economy. Its latest target is Eranove, where it hopes to take a 12% stake.
Cannabis-grower King Kong Organics is knocking on the doors of numerous African heads of state in the hope of breaking into the continent.
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Business Humanitarian logistics specialist CTG, which is already well established in Africa, is to diversify its activities. It is to help set up firing ranges for the training of Somali army troops, using European Union funding.
Vice president Riek Machar is insisting on having army commander Johnson Olony as head of the oil-producing state of Upper Nile. South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has refused to approve the appointment, however, even though, in so doing, he risks endangering the country's fragile transition process.
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The US development agency has revised its $30m tender to boost tourism in southern Tunisia, which has long taken a beating.
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Business In the battle for control of the country's oil money, Prime Minister Sarraj could succeed in having the Central Bank of Libya board dismiss its governor Al Seddik Omar Al Kabir.
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