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Spotlight | Africa, Japan, Tunisia
Japanese diplomats scramble to shore up their TICAD Africa aid summit in Tunis

Japanese diplomats are busy preparing the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development to be held next month in Tunis. Japan has been promoting the event but there have been shortcomings in its organisation despite Tokyo's ambitious objectives for the continent.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Central African Republic
NGOs and airlines struggle as Wagner monopolises dwindling kerosene stocks

AA World Food Programme plane over Bangui in 2016. © Siegfried Modola/Reuters

Central African kerosene reserves have dwindled to almost nothing, and with the state having requisitioned what little remains, the UN and airlines have cancelled a raft of flights. Stocks of diesel and petrol are also starting to run low, though Bangui is expecting fresh supplies as of August.

Subscribers only Energy, Commodity traders

Cameroon
Residents take Nachtigal dam grievances to World Bank

Communities living near the 420 MW Nachtigal dam construction on the Sanaga River, some 60km north of Yaoundé, have turned to the World Bank's inspection panel to complain about the project.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

France, Sahel
Special forces general Bruno Baratz set to take over helm of Barkhane

The three-star general Bruno Baratz, the head of France's special forces and former leader of the Eléments français au Sénégal (EFS), looks set to take charge of French operations in the Sahel in the coming days.

Subscribers only Defence

Nigeria
Local magnates hopeful as BW Offshore puts Nigerian FPSOs up for sale

The Norwegian crude oil storage vessel firm wants to leave Nigeria to focus on other more promising markets in Latin America. The takeover of its assets is turning into a battle between local and foreign firms.

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Eastern Africa and the Horn

East Africa
Rivalry between hotel chain Accor and US competitors switches to Horn

Neither Covid-19 nor regional instability have so far dampened the ambitions of top-end hotel groups in East Africa and the Horn, where the Big Four (Accor, Radisson, Hilton and Marriott) are continuing to prospect for business.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
Rifle-maker Truvelo in legal and financial turmoil

Truvelo, a leading sniper rifle manufacturer, is under investigation by South African police on suspicion of illegal firearms exports and is experiencing serious financial trouble. It is also dogged by tension between chairman Heine van Niekerk and its deputy CEO.

Subscribers only Defence

South Africa
Ajay Gupta cooperated over brothers' arrest in South Africa corruption scandal

Ajay Gupta has avoided arrest with Pretoria's blessing, while his two younger brothers are being held in Dubai over a major state graft scandal in South Africa. Sources say the eldest brother's cooperation aided his siblings' arrest.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Algeria, United States
US firm GHSN to pioneer foreign hospital management alongside Groupe Souakri

Groupe Souakri, the Algerian partner of the LafargeHolcim cement firm and Renault Trucks, has asked Global Health Services Network to design its future private hospital and paramedical training centre in Meftah. The American group will also manage the new complex, at least during the early years.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

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