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Spotlight | Nigeria
Rotimi Amaechi stakes presidential ambitions on rail expansion

Nigeria's Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi. © Twitter/@MinTransportNG

With elections scheduled for 2023, the transport minister is stepping up investments, riding on projects set in motion by the previous government.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics

Central Africa

DRC
Via subcontractors, China Railway moves in on all Congo's major mining projects

A company in which China Railway is a shareholder has taken over a subcontract at the Tenke Fungurume copper-cobalt mine. The contract was the subject of a dispute between the mine operator and its former subcontractor.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining

Central African Republic
Touadéra seeks support in Luanda to circumvent impasse in Bangui

Faustin Archange Touadéra was already welcomed by his counterpart João Lourenço in Angola in May 2021. © Ampe Rogerio/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

On 23 December, the Central African president Faustin-Archange Touadéra is due to meet Angolan and Rwandan heads of diplomacy and review the peace process roadmap, as part of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).

Subscribers only Diplomacy

West Africa

West Africa
ENI, Mercuria, TotalEnergies and Shell aim to revive Gulf of Guinea next year

African E&P may have focused on the south of the continent lately, but the west is still very much in the game.

Free access Energy

Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara's secret government reshuffle plan

Ivory Coast's president Alassane Ouattara. © Julien de Rosa/ POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The Ivorian presidency is drawing up plans for a government reshuffle. It is likely to include the merging of some ministries and reducing the number of ministers and secretaries of state, which currently stands at 41.

Subscribers only Politics

Ivory Coast
Ouattara struggles to implement preference for national cacao suppliers

Ivory Coast has new rules that oblige international operators to award 20% of their cocoa bean supply contracts with confectionary manufacturers to Ivorian producers. But the sector's foreign giants have still dominated over local players in the 2021-2022 cocoa harvest.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Africa
Sierra Leone given free run as Nigeria gives up on UN Security Council seat bid

Nigeria has decided to withdraw its bid for a non-permanent member seat on the UN Security Council for 2024-2025, leaving Sierra Leone alone in the running.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
The five ministers making life difficult for Hamdok

When he ousted the prime minister on 25 October, General al-Burhan chose to keep on board the government members of the rebel groups signatory to the Juba agreement, whose presence is proving troublesome for the prime minister as he picks out a new team.

Subscribers only Politics

Kenya
Odinga's campaign short on bankrollers

Presidential candidate Raila Odinga. © Facebook/Raila.Odinga

By extending support to Uhuru Kenyatta's preferred presidential candidate, the oligarchs of the powerful Mount Kenya Foundation fear they will be dragged into funding his entire campaign.

Subscribers only Politics, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Zimbabwe
Beijing makes the most of Harare's isolation

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the African leader's first visit to China on April 3, 2018. © Parker Song/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

As one of the few southern African states to have been excluded by Washington from its Democracy Summit, Zimbabwe has been conducting an intense communication campaign in recent weeks, touting its proximity to Beijing, one of President Mnangagwa's few international allies.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Morocco
'Team Akhannouch' locks down top jobs in PM's office

Thirty-six-year-old Wafae Jamali has been appointed as Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch's secretary general. She takes her place alongside several young and loyal lieutenants who have followed Akhannouch into his new realm.

Subscribers only Politics

Egypt
Leonardo close to selling its training jet to Egyptian Air Force

The Italian manufacturer, which late last month attended the Air Power Symposium organised by Cairo, is expected to win a contract to supply its M-346 jet for use by Egyptian pilots training to fly Rafales, a second batch of which Cairo has just ordered.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Libya
Faisal Feituri sets up pro-Haftar lobbyist in US called Dolton Fonseca Group

Faisal Feituri, the Libyan businessman and lobbyist for Khalifa Haftar in the United States, is boosting his US networks with a new lobbying firm in Washington called Dolton Fonseca Group.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy

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