Rwanda is about to send a new ambassador to Luanda. President Kagame has again chosen a high-flyer for the strategic embassy as relations with Angola, particularly on the security front, grow ever stronger.
The Pacific Ocean country says Malabo's months-long seizure of a BP-chartered ship bearing its flag violated the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. For Malabo, the fault lies with Nigeria.
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Defence DRC president Felix Tshisekedi will travel to Beijing on 26 May for a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, during which an attempt to find a solution to the dispute over the mining firm Sicomines could be made.
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Mining 
Now that the Liptako-Gourma region has become the main centre of jihadist activity in the Sahel, Mohamed Bazoum is trying to revive military collaboration with Bamako. The chances of cooperation have been weakened, however, by mistrust between the Nigerien president and Mali's junta leader Assimi Goita.
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Defence A task force is preparing to submit a report on the Senegalese health system to President Macky Sall. This will be the first time that a public policy will have been subjected to a comprehensive assessment by the Senegalese state.
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Politics American-Canadian mining magnate Robert Friedland no longer believes that he can complete the Nimba iron ore mining project being carried out by his High Power Exploration (HPX) group and its local subsidiary, Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée.
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Mining 
The president may have turned the page on some of John Magufuli's most authoritarian traits, but she has yet to bow to opposition demands to repeal certain controversial laws. The course has been set, but Samia is dictating the tempo.
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Politics 
Though tension between Paris and Rabat is high, massive Moroccan phosphate miner OCP may sponsor the upcoming French event.
