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In Focus | Zimbabwe
Time is nigh to settle accounts between von Pezolds and Zimbabwean regime

The house overlooking the Gota Dam in the Forrester Estate in Mvurwi, Zimbabwe, owned by Elisabeth and Heinrich von Pezold. © Studio Seilern Architects

The European aristocratic von Pezold family seem to be on the cusp of success in their efforts to reclaim more than $200m of state compensation for agricultural land expropriated during the Mugabe era. Their success in this mission would consolidate their dominant position in Zimbabwean agriculture but also, more widely, in southern Africa.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

Cameroon
After Eramet, BWA pursues rutile exploration

Britain's BWA Group is to embark on a second phase of exploration at its Dehane rutile project in Cameroon. The decision comes just months after the French company Eramet made a similar move, and it boosts Yaoundé's hopes for the development of the country's mining sector.

Subscribers only Mining

Burundi
Why OMP Solutions is supplying Egyptian APCs to Burundi's blue helmets

The Marck subsidiary is to supply Burundian troops in MINUSCA with a batch of 16 armoured vehicles designed by Egyptian firm Kader. The arrangement comes amid warming relations between Evariste Ndayishimiye and Abdelfattah al-Sisi.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Frustrated Abidjan hires lobbying giant APCO to boost its credit rating at OECD

Considering that its OECD credit risk rating is unjustified and penalises the country on capital markets, Ivory Coast has hired APCO to try to get it improved.

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Mauritania
McDermott teams up with Bolloré to work for Kosmos and BP

In Nouakchott, US engineering firm McDermott has joined with Sogeco, whose director is also active in promoting US-Mauritanian business relations.

Subscribers only Energy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
KenGen resumes development of Olkaria VII geothermal site

A geothermal production well at the Olkaria geothermal power plant in Naivasha, Kenya on March 15, 2019. © Daniel Irungu/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Five years after the World Bank's disastrous withdrawal from the project, the state power firm still hopes to build the seventh generating plant in the south-eastern Olkaria geothermal field.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Kenya
Kenyatta's bid to grab the Commonwealth's secretary general post angers members

Kenyan defence minister Monica Juma with Kenya's head of state Uhuru Kenyatta. © Compte Twitter Monica Juma SG Candidate for the Commonwealth

The Kenyan president's efforts to get his defence minister Monica Juma elected as the Commonwealth's secretary general during the 7 September summit has annoyed the alliance's other members, who dislike Kenya's attempts to monopolise positions in all other international organisations.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Explosive document could reignite EastPlats's Canadian court woes

The South African platinum producer's managers had been hoping to put a two-year legal battle over the construction of a tailings unit behind them, but an explosive new document could set it all off again.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Tunisia
Washington poised to supply surveillance balloons to the National Guard

A 28M surveillance balloon manufactured by TCOM. © TCOM

After putting off its decision for two years, the US Justice Department is about to supply tethered surveillance balloons to Tunisia's national guard. TCOM, Raytheon and a consortium composed of Novetta and Drone Aviation Corp are taking a keen interest in the deal.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Algeria
Regime uses carrot and stick to bring media to heel

Online media is eagerly awaiting the promised creation of a dedicated advertising agency and the fresh revenues that will come with it. Control of the agency is being fought over, however, by President Tebboune and communication minister Ammar Belhimer, who is also preparing to submit two media reform bills to the National Assembly, which Africa Intelligence has consulted.

Subscribers only Politics

Algeria
Equinor consolidates its presence, minus BP

Equinor CEO Anders Opedal (left) with Sonatrach CEO Toufik Hakkar. © Sonatrach

Abdelmadjid Tebboune's government has rolled out the red carpet for the directors of the Norwegian major, which unlike other oil firms wants to invest more in the country.

Subscribers only Energy

Algeria
Spain's OHL excluded from Annaba-Ramdane Djamel rail works

Obrascon Huarte Lain (OHL), the Spanish firm selected to modernise the 77-km railway between Annaba and Ramdane Djamel has been removed from the project and replaced by three state-owned Algerian companies.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

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