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Spotlight | Africa
Ukraine war leaves Russia's Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil in limbo in Africa

The conflict in Ukraine will completely block Russian oil companies' access to European, American and Asian lenders. Finding alternative funding, in particular from China, will be difficult.

Subscribers only Energy

Central Africa

Chad
Doha Sheraton the focal point of the reconciliation attempt between rebels and Kaka

The opening of the preliminary dialogue, in Doha, Qatar. © Twitter@GermanyinQatar

The inter-Chadian preliminary dialogue, which had been postponed several times, finally got underway on 13 March. A host of key protagonists, curious to see how Qatar would find the means to reach a deal, came to the meeting.

Subscribers only Politics

Cameroon
Israeli securocrat Eran Moas behind Augentic-IN Group's push for ID cards

To win the next contract for Cameroon's biometric identity cards, fledgling German company Augentic, in partnership with French firm IN Groupe, is relying on the intense lobbying of Israeli securocrat Eran Moas, an adviser to President Paul Biya's praetorian guard.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

DRC, United States
Glencore strives to reach compromise with US Justice Department

The trading giant, which last month said it had set aside $1.5bn to settle US and UK investigations into its activities, is trying to negotiate a compromise with the US Department of Justice, in particular on the Congolese part of Washington's probes.

Subscribers only Mining

Chad, France
Former French ambassador Bruno Foucher returns to duty

French diplomat Bruno Foucher has returned to working on diplomacy regarding Chad. He is currently in Doha where a pre-dialogue with more than fifty armed groups began on 13 March under the auspices of Qatari diplomacy.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central African Republic
EU considers resumption of financial aid to Bangui

The European Union has not ruled out resuming financial support for Central African Republic. An EU delegation was in Bangui last week to discuss how it might resume the payment of budgetary support, estimated at €30m.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Gabon
Frédéric Bongo is referred to a disciplinary board

Breaking news published on 14/03/2022 at 11h45 : For a long time Ali Bongo's eyes and ears, the Republican Guard's former head of intelligence Frédéric Bongo is being sidelined, as tensions between the president's family and Omar-Denis Bongo Jr, the son of former President Omar Bongo rise.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Ivory Coast
SAF's unpaid debt now the "Enron" of the cocoa industry

Saf cacao, an export firm in San-Pedro, Ivory Coast. © Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters

Five years after SAF Cacao went bankrupt, its accumulated €158m in debt owed to 11 banks remains outstanding. The creditors have formed an underwriting banking syndicate but have struggled to mortage SAF's new owner SACC's assets.

Subscribers only Finance, Commodity traders, Business

West Africa
Ukrainian Antonovs still supplying French forces in the Sahel, for now

Redeployed to reinforce NATO's eastern flank, Ukrainian operator Antonov Airlines' surviving fleet of An-124s are also backing France's military efforts in Africa. But the clock is ticking...

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya, Tanzania
Kenyatta and Suluhu attract Islamic finance

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta. © Twitter/@SpokespersonGoK

Arabian Peninsula funds are preparing to embace a dynamic Kenyan market and the opening up of Tanzania by Samia Suluhu Hassan. The heads of state of both these African countries recently visited the Gulf.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy

Qatar, Somalia
Qatar resumes its role as Farmajo's number one ally

Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was received ceremonially by Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in his Diwan Palace. © Twitter/@AmiriDiwan

The gas-producing emirate rolled out the red carpet for Somali leader Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed when he visited Qatar in early March. Relations between the two countries had cooled recently following repeated postponements of the elections in Somalia and the subsequent political crisis there.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

South Africa
War in Ukraine spells good news for South African coal

Following two years that have been marred by the Covid-19 pandemic and the state-owned railway operator's logistical problems, the South African coal sector is suddenly being courted by European consumers. In an European market previously dominated by Russia, it now plans to regain a slice of the pie.

Subscribers only Mining

North Africa

Algeria
Ukraine war impacts Thales, Safran military contracts

The two French defence giants are doing business with Russia to kit out Algerian combat aircraft. Sanctions are set to complicate those arrangments.

Free access Defence, Business

Libya
First of three war crime trials against Haftar resumes in US

After being stalled for several months, one of the "war crimes" trials against Khalifa Haftar has resumed. On 11 March, judges decided to continue proceedings, in which Haftar faces Canadian-Libyan plaintiff Ali Abdallah Hamza. The legal case has been suspended since 4 Nov last year.

Subscribers only Politics

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