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Spotlight | Angola
Lourenço solicits cooperation from the Emirates, Mauritius and Monaco in battle against Dos Santos family

The Angolan Ministry of Justice is requesting help left and right to round up and potentially freeze the assets of the former president's daughter, Isabel Dos Santos.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

In Focus | DRC
Tshisekedi's advisers split over response to $617m arbitration award

Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. © Carsten Koall/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

The arbitration ruling won by Dig Oil against the DRC has put the head of state's advisers at loggerheads. Felix Tshisekedi's inner circle are pressing him to seek a settlement with the South African oil company, while one of the country's legal advisers is pleading for an energetic legal counter-attack.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast's freemasons begin planning Bakayoko succession

The death of its grand master, Hamed Bakayoko, leaves a void at the head of the Grande Loge de Côte d'Ivoire, which it must rapidly fill.

Subscribers only Politics

Mauritania
Royalties and taxes at heart of battle between Quantum Minerals and Nouakchott

Mauritanian Copper Mines, a subsidiary of Canada's giant First Quantum Minerals, has launched an arbitration against the Mauritanian state, arguing that it was not liable for certain taxes it has paid.

Subscribers only Mining

Ghana
Transport minister urged to take action over Maersk's new Tema Port fee

The new $60 tax Danish shipping giant Maersk will apply as of 15 March to each container unloaded in the Merdian Port Services has sent shock waves among the importers, exporters and freight companies that use the port.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Senegal
Indonesian Aerospace and Gaby Peretz deliver a second maritime patrol aircraft to Dakar

Senegal's air force is this month due to receive another maritime patrol plane, a CN-235, from the state-owned Indonesian Aerospace.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Benin
Talon dishing out honours left, right and centre

Patrice Talon, President of the Republic of Benin. © Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

One month before the election, the National Order of Benin grand chancellor Koubourath Osseni has presented a particularly homogenous group of honourees to President Patrice Talon.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Hamdok under pressure to do away with debt

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok. © Thomas Padilla/MAXPPP

The prime minister's recent visits to Cairo and Riyadh were in part intended to enable Sudan to move forward on its debt. At a time when the country's finances are at their worst, Khartoum is grappling with the opposing forces of citizens' discontent and external pressure to carry out unpopular reforms.

Subscribers only Business

Great lakes, Turkey
Ismail Demirtas, the new bridgehead of Turkish military business in the Great Lakes

Ankara's new military attaché for the Great Lakes will need to maintain Turkish defence industry's excellent relationship with Uganda but also develop opportunities in Rwanda and Burundi, despite these two countries' troubled relations with Kampala.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Namibia
Canadian mining firms prefer gold over uranium

The annual PDAC jamboree, which took place virtually this year, provided confirmation that the Canadians are more interested in Namibia's gold than its yellowcake.

Subscribers only Mining

South Africa
Minister Mantashe on long and winding road to PetroSA-IGas-SFF merger

South African Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe. © Kim Ludbrook/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

The creation of a single state-owned firm combining the three subsidiaries of the Central Energy Fund (CEF) is a top priority for the energy ministry. But the project is stuck in a bureaucratic mess.

Subscribers only Energy

North Africa

Morocco
Afrique Advisors sets out to conquer Washington

Consulting firm Afrique Advisors, founded by Laïla Slassi and Talal Belrhiti, has opened a branch in Washington DC to conduct lobbying activities in the United States.

Subscribers only Business

Libya
Sarraj slips away to Rome before leaving government jet to Dabaiba

Hours after the vote of confidence for the new unity government, outgoing prime minister Fayez Sarraj slipped away to Rome. He might not attend the handover ceremony for Abdelhamid Dabaiba.

Subscribers only Politics

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