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Spotlight | Angola
Banco Sol struggles to shake reputation as MPLA's bank

Coutinho Nobre Miguel, dubbed the MPLA's banker. He was the boss of Banco Sol until last year and remains a major shareholder. © Coutinho Nobre Miguel/Facebook

Thrown back into the limelight by a recent report, Banco Sol's deep and long-standing ties with President João Lourenço's party are weighing heavily on the financial institution's attempts to brand itself as just an ordinary bank.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Central Africa

DRC
Fortescue in Kinshasa to negotiate Grand Inga mega-contract

Executives from the Australian mining giant Fortescue have flown into the Congolese capital to discuss the modalities of a deal to generate a total 70 gigawatts of electricity in the country. Their trip comes as President Félix Tshisekedi prepares to choose between the various bidders for the Grand Inga project.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

France, Gabon
SEEG audited as Suez-Veolia merger battle rages

Recruited as a consultant by Gabon last spring, ex-Veolia CEO Henri Proglio is about to complete his audit of Société d'énergie et d'eau du Gabon (SEEG).

Subscribers only Business

Cameroon
Yaoundé aims to forego World Bank help on mining cadastre

Cameroon has hired consultancy Drake & Bart to design an institutional framework that would help wean the country off World Bank help in managing its mining cadastre.

Subscribers only Mining

DRC
Surestream still covets Ndunda block after ENI's exit

UK firm Surestream is betting on the political vacuum in the DRC to take over the unexploited oil block.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Ghana
Mota-Engil pays off its ex-partners on Accra-Tema highway project

The Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil has reached a financial arrangement with its French and South African partners Egis, Stoa Infra & Energy and AIIM, who have found themselves frozen out of the contract to upgrade the Accra-Tema highway.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Nigeria
Leonardo gives Nigerian Air Force a lift with its M-346 training jets

The Italian defence contractor Leonardo is poised to deliver as many as 24 Aermacchi M-346 training aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force. These planes are part of a drive to modernise the NAF, headed by Isiaka Oladayo Amao.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Gideon Moi wades into battle for control of Kenya's ports

Gideon Moi, politician, businessman and son of former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi. © Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

The businessman and political leader Gideon Moi, who has rallied to the Kenyatta camp, intends to have a say in the choice of the new boss of the Kenya Ports Authority.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics, Business

South Sudan
Pagan, Malong and Kiir negotiate on thin ice

Peace talks for South Sudan in Naivasha on 8 March with Pagan Amum Okiech, Barnaba Marial Benjamin and Paul Malong Awan(from left to right). © Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Twitter

Negotiations between South Sudan's government and remaining rebel groups have resumed in Kenya. But all parties are beset by internal tensions that render the outcome of the talks uncertain.

Subscribers only Politics

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