Following the peace deal, four rebel chiefs are in the running for the three new available seats on the Sovereign Council, the body overseeing the transition in Khartoum.
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Politics 
The appointment of Weiquan Xia as head of the Kinsevere copper mine marks a switch to Chinese management of MMG's business in the DRC in line with its majority ownership. The new general manager will first have to sort out a number of long-standing issues: construction of a sulphide processing plant, acquisition of new permits and a dispute with former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi's company MCK.
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Mining 
These days, Marc Honda Sendanki is giving the Russian firm Litasco the benefit of his extensive networks in the region.
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Energy Guinea, which re-established diplomatic relations with Israel in 2016, has been concerned to see the DRC, Senegal and other countries competing for the favours of the Jewish state in recent years. It plans to take steps to ensure that it stays in the good books of the authorities in Tel Aviv.
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Business The Chinese major CNOOC has put in a substantial offer to acquire Occidental Petroleum's 30,000 barrels a day in Ghana, but it is not the only firm in the running.
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Energy For lack of funds, Senegalese subcontractor Maor Technologies pulled out five months ago from the coal-fired station run by Compagnie d'Electricité du Sénégal.
With the presidential election just weeks away and the contract seemingly already in the bag for China Railway, the Ivorian president has in the end decided to award the contract to extend Abidjan airport to France's Bouygues.
Under pressure from the FATF, west African governments are trying to improve the performance of their financial intelligence services.
As his associates step up their investments in Cotonou, Ali Bongo's former chief of staff is jetting across Europe.
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Business 
The new Nairobi Securities Exchange chairperson Kiprono Kittony was part of the Kenyan delegation visiting Paris with president Kenyatta from 29 September to 4 October and took the opportunity to make an initial overture to Euronext.
Moulaye Abdellah Lalami, who was a simple legal adviser at Société Fiduciaire du Maroc during the reign of Hassan II, has under Mohammed VI become the trusted trustee of the king's entourage, discreetly handling the most sensitive affairs.
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Business Very much in the good books of the Algerian president, the Turkish construction firm Atlas génie civil recently landed a new contract worth $21m in the wilayah of Annaba, thereby further consolidating its position in the Algerian market.
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