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Spotlight | Morocco
Reacting still distributing health ministry medicines despite recent scandals

Khalid Aït Taleb, Minister of Health since September 2019. © Ministère de la santé du Maroc

Linked to preferential treatment scandals at the health ministry, Reacting remains on good terms with Khalid Aït Taleb. It recently landed a new public contract to distribute medicines for the ministry in Berrechid and Casablanca.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

Congo
Cameroonian company called in to save ailing SNPC refining subsidiary CORAF

Congolaise de Raffinage (CORAF) is to be restructured. The State has called in a Cameroonian audit firm to help it carry out the titanic task.

Subscribers only Energy

Gabon
Food aid makes for healthy public relations

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, leading political figures and entrepreneurs are finding that food donations are good for their image.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Guinea
Research chair funded by Orano, Eramet and Imerys to focus on bauxite

Mining colleges in Paris, Nancy and Alès are soon to establish an academic chair funded by three French mining giants. Initial research will examine the impact bauxite mining in Boké has on the environment and local populations.

Subscribers only Mining

Senegal
First two Korea Aerospace attack aircraft touch down in Dakar

Korea Aerospace Industries KA-1S. Two of these light aircraft have already landed in Senegal as part of a bigger order. © KAI

Korea Aerospace Industries' delivery of two light attack aircraft to the Senegalese Air Force in April marked Seoul's first ever export of planes to the African continent. This contracts opens the way for stronger military cooperation between Senegal and South Korea.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Ghana
Accra-Tema highway: AIIM adds muscle to Mota-Engil and Egis' offer

The Portuguese construction giant Mota-Engil-French engineering firm Egis consortium has secured backing from African Infrastructure Investment Managers to bolster its bid for a contract to upgrade the highway between Accra and the port of Tema.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Ethiopia
Abiy Ahmed Ali harnesses technical expertise to boost chances of general election victory

The Ethiopian prime minister is leaving nothing to chance as he plots his path to victory in the general election, which should take place at some point later this year. He is relying in particular on allies with a sound technical grasp of Ethiopia's electoral system and its political landscape.

Subscribers only Politics

Uganda
Consolidated Africa finally sells Orom graphite but retains stake

Australia's Consolidated Africa, after nearly two years of seeking a buyer for its Orom graphite venture, has finally clinched the deal, taking out a 25% stake in the buyer as part of the agreement.

Subscribers only Mining

Southern Africa and islands

Zimbabwe
AU-feted mobile money magnate Strive Masiyiwa vilified by Harare

Strive Masiyiwa, the London-based Zimbabwean finance, tech and telecom mogul. © Reuters/Gus Ruelas

The African Union may have appointed him to tackle the coronavirus pandemic across the continent, but Strive Masiyiwa does not enjoy the same level of confidence from authorities in his native Zimbabwe. The country's central bank has clipped the wings of EcoCash, Masiyiwa's mobile money business, which plays a key role in the country's economy.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

Madagascar
Andry Rajoelina's 'Marshall Plan' struggles to raise enough money

Even though Madagascar's economic recovery plan was finalised on 7 May, the government is dragging its heels to announce it. Why the delay? President Andry Rajoelina has gathered less than half of the funds needed.

Subscribers only Politics

North Africa

Algeria
Automotive: SNVI boss Mustapha Meghdouri hands over SAFMMA's car keys to army

Since 13 April, the Algerian-Emirati SAFMMA joint venture that manufactures Daimler engines under licence for both the military and civilian market has been under the stewardship of Colonel Ghani Badaoui.

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Algeria
Oxy left holding Anadarko assets with Total excluded and Sonatrach cash-strapped

Although Sonatrach had exercised its right of pre-emption over the Algerian assets of Anadarko - acquired by Oxy and for which Total had made an offer - the boss of the state-owned oil company has had to face up to reality: his company's ambitions outstrip its means.

Subscribers only Energy

Morocco
Construction mogul Mohamed Bouzoubaa moves into real estate development

The Covid-19 crisis has done nothing to dampen Mohamed Bouzoubaa's real estate ambitions. On 6 March, the head of construction giant TGCC set up a property development company called BFO Office.

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