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Inner circles | Algeria
How OAIC cereals board provides daily bread to Algerians despite Ukraine war and scandals

The logo of the Office algérien interprofessionnel des céréales (OAIC) on a silo in the port of Algiers. © Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Algeria's national cereals board, the OAIC, is the focus of major government spending and a key political tool for its bilateral relationship with France. The organisation is tasked with ensuring Algeria is supplied with wheat, despite the current high prices and the sometimes competing demands of millers, bakers and consumers.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Central Africa

DRC
Behind Perenco's plans to extend its reign in Kongo Central

The Franco-British firm which specialises in optimisation of mature fields whose oil production has hit its limit in the country, hopes to acquire two exploration blocks that it has been eyeing for several years. It plans to invest €200m in its gas development project, on which it has just reached an agreement with Kinshasa and the local consortium Congo Energy.

Subscribers only Energy

Congo
After Paris, PM Makosso flies off to Washington then London

Congolese PM Anatole Collinet Makosso, having hosted the Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame in Brazzaville at the start of the week, in the company of President Denis Sassou Nguesso, is now on a trip to Paris.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Cameroon
French company Louis Berger takes Yaoundé to court for unpaid bills

French engineering consultancy Louis Berger has turned to the courts to claim around €1.5m in invoices left unpaid since 2019 by the Cameroonian state.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

West Africa

West Africa
Between Mali pullout and Ukraine, French military cooperation budget reaches delicate equilibrium

Despite the reallocation of European security cooperation funds to Ukraine, Paris has made a point of reassuring its West African partners by releasing other funds their way.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy

Mali
French firm Eranove still hopeful for Kenié power plant project

The future of the Kenié hydroelectric power station project is still in doubt, nearly seven years after the Malian state signed a concession contract with Eranove.

Subscribers only Energy, Business

Ivory Coast
Sport ministry and prime minister battle over Ebimpé stadium revamp contract

Ebimpé stadium in Ivory Coast. © Alassane Ouattara/Twitter/Office national des sports

The Olympic stadium, an emblem of Alassane Ouattara's presidency, must be refurbished before 2023. The sports ministry is lobbying for a no-bid contract to be given to Egyptian construction group Arab Contractors, while the prime minister's office want to launch an international tender

Subscribers only Business

Ghana
Atlantic Lithium hires matchmaker to choose suitor

Lithium ore crystals. © Twitter @AtlanticLithium

Global battery giants have been battling for stakes in lithium projects under development in Zimbabwe and Mali. Now they have set their sights on one run by Atlantic Lithium in Ghana. The British junior has hired consultants to help it scrutinise the offers it is getting.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
The two French operators hogging Sudan's gum arabic

Gum arabic on an acacia tree in Sudan. © Piye/Alamy Banque d'Images

French operators Nexira and Alland & Robert buy over half of Sudan's gum arabic production between them, squeezing out local actors who struggle to make a place for themselves in this market.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
With a little help from its Lusophone friends, Luanda makes fresh bid to recover stolen assets

Recovering illicit assets lodged abroad by the dos Santos clan is one of the biggest challenges facing President Joao Lourenco, leading him to solicit support from the club of fellow Portuguese-speaking nations which meets in Luanda later this month.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

South Africa
ANC's step-aside rule more of a headache than a corruption cure for Ramaphosa

Cyril Ramaphosa talking to his supporters in Johannesburg on 29 October 2021. © Kim Ludbrook/EPA/MaxPPP

For the past five years, any ANC official charged with graft has been pushed to step down. But this rule faces stiff opposition from the president's foes within the party, which will hold its five-yearly national conference at the end of the year.

Subscribers only Politics

North Africa

North Africa, West Africa
From Bamako to Bangui, Walid Arem takes over Libya's problem hotels

Tunisian businessman Walid Arem. © Walid Arem/Instagram

Walid Arem has taken over the famed Ledger Plaza hotel in Bangui, which is owned by the Libyan state through its Laico fund and is at the centre of a bitter power struggle. Arem was already running two other Laico hotels in Bamako, as well as a seaside resort in Tunisia.

Subscribers only Business

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