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Spotlight | Sahel, United States
Biden pitches plan for more NATO and less UN in Sahel

US President Joe Biden (left) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. © Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Joe Biden's engagement with the Sahel has been heavily anticipated, especially given his predecessor Donald Trump was noted for his isolationism. He has been working on his approach to this region since early 2021 with a new Africa team.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
The secret mission of Guy Moskit, Touadéra's new special adviser

The Central African Republic president appointed the former journalist in early December to help keep watch on his opponent Karim Meckassoua's movements. Moskit knows the former speaker of parliament very well.

Subscribers only Politics

DRC
Yuma's sidelined rivals rise to top at Gécamines

The new Gécamines chairman, Alphonse Kaputo Kalubi, was for a long time sidelined by Albert Yuma, who has just been ousted from the helm of the state-owned mining company. It seems that the new managing director appointed at the same time was not a Yuma favourite either.

Subscribers only Mining

West Africa

Niger
Arms top Bazoum's Christmas list

Less than three weeks after signing with Turkey's TAI and Baykar for unmanned aerial vehicles and observation aircraft, Niger is already thinking of acquiring two more MI-24 helicopters.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Mauritania
Ghazouani seeks to secure Grand Tortue by boosting navy

Nouakchott is determined to play its part in securing the offshore natural gas project Grand Tortue Ahmeyim and has contacted TKMS and Fincantieri shipyards about purchasing new patrol vessels. But its budget does not live up to its ambition.

Subscribers only Defence, Energy, Business

Nigeria
Shell seeks rapid SPDC sale despite legal wranglings with NNPC

The British-Dutch major will find it hard to sell its Nigerian subsidiary, SPDC, which is owed $1.2bn by the NNPC and is in dispute with it for more than double that amount.

Subscribers only Energy

Ghana
No end in sight for negotiations with ENI and Vitol on Block 3

Despite having been awarded exploration rights on the Tano Basin offshore block in July 2019, ENI and Vitol have so far been unable to agree terms with the Ghanaian energy ministry.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

China, Tanzania
Beijing and Dodoma seek to mend fences via defence and infrastructure

Tanzanian foreign minister Liberata Mulamula met with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Dakar on 29 and 30 November 2021. © Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania/Twitter

Tanzania's erstwhile primary trading partner China is still struggling to resurrect its business and diplomatic ties with Dodoma after the brutal hiatus of the Magufuli era.

Free access Infrastructure, Energy, Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana
Lawyer Rizwan Desai expands mining investments

Top lawyer Rizwan Desai, founding partner of the influential Gaborone law firm Desai Law Group, registered the company Mining and Power Resources on 29 November. He is the company's sole shareholder.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Libya
Pro- and anti-Haftar supporters united in opposition to Stephanie Williams' return

The UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams. © Martial Trezzini/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The nomination of Stephanie Williams as special adviser on Libya has for once brought pro- and anti-Haftar lobbyists into agreement. Both camps are against her return, laying the blame for the current political crisis on her.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Tunisia
Middleman Ayachi Ajroudi hangs up his cowboy hat from Cannes to Hammamet

The French-Tunisian businessman Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi. © Ajroudi.com

The Franco-Tunisian businessman Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi is to dissolve AES, the company through which he acted as a middleman in the Gulf. His grand plans in Tunisia and Libya have not worked out either.

Subscribers only Business

Algeria
Billionaire Abdelmalek Sahraoui's clan back on track in state construction

The former FLN MP for Mascara, Abdelmalek Sahraoui, a key business figure of the Bouteflika era, has been in prison for corruption since April. His construction company Irrigout, run by his brother Omar Sahraoui, has however just won an important road contract.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

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