In his battle against predecessor Joseph Kabila, President Félix Tshisekedi has turned to neighbouring head of state Denis Sassou Nguesso for help in building a new political coalition.
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Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, which recently changed its name to Sculptor Capital Management, has settled its dispute with former Africo shareholders over its takeover of the Kalukundi copper project in association with Dan Gertler. It still faces the threat of further legal action, however, from civil society interests.
Expertise France has pocketed nearly €200m in European funds over the past two years for a variety of G5 Sahel projects that include military equipment delivery and army support programme management.
Following a six-month selection process, French gendarmerie general Bettina Boughani has been appointed by the United Nations' Department of Peace Operations to take charge of the United Nations Police unit within the UN's MINUSMA mission in Mali.
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has for weeks been working on reconciliation with Eritrea in an effort to break the Cairo-Asmara-Abu Dhabi axis. It was fear of having to pay the price for this rapprochement that leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front - who have repeatedly clashed with Eritrea - rebelled against the Ethiopian federal army last week.
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Diplomacy In mid-October Engie gave formal notice to the Kenya Electricity Generating Co (KenGen) that it was pulling out of the race for the 140MW Olkaria VI project
Breaking news, Monday 9 November 2020, 2:20 p.m. - Worried that they could be attacked by Eritrea to the north and the federal army to the south, Tigray's leaders have appealed for help from the chairman of the pan-African institution, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Angola Cables, the leader in undersea fibre optic cables in Angola, has decided to part ways with its long-serving but dos Santos-marked managing director ahead of President Lourenço's plans to have the company privatised in 2021.
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Business The Qatari specialist in transportation between offshore oil rigs and onshore bases, Gulf Helicopters, has been investing in all of the same countries as its former owner, the state-run Qatar Petroleum.
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Energy To be part of the military operations carried out against the Cabo Delgado insurgency despite the strict lockdown measures imposed on the region, Lionel Dyck has reinvented himself as a humanitarian aid operator.
Fifteen consulates but not a single consul: the diplomatic offices opened in two cities of the disputed territory are still empty and Rabat is even paying the rent for some.
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Diplomacy Last summer, TAV Airports attempted to seize on €15bn in frozen Libyan funds at Euroclear Bank in Belgium. The attempt failed and Erdogan is doing nothing to help.
A serious contender for being the next boss of Total, Stéphane Michel will soon leave behind his role with North Africa and the Middle East, peppered with complications, to move one step closer to his goal.
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Energy Annoncé en août 2019, le rachat de 39 % du capital de BNP Paribas dans l'UBCI par Carte assurances, détenu par le groupe Doghri, vient d'être approuvé par la Banque centrale tunisienne.
