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In Focus | Nigeria
Mr Eazi's risky gambles with betting business betPawa

The Nigerian singer Mr Eazi. © Montage Studio Pachamama // Roger Kisby / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP // Alamy banque d'images/Frank Peters/Wirestock, Inc/D. Hurst // Shutterstock/ Projestus Prosper/Cafe Racer

The Nigerian Afropop star Mr Eazi built himself an online gambling empire with the brand betPawa. Through financial dealings and political connections, the musician took control of most of Softpawa, betPawa's UK parent company, headed up by his amenable Danish friend, Kresten Buch.

Subscribers only Business

Central Africa

Cameroon
Parliamentary commission aims to stop poison-pen letters

Cameroon's National Assembly has set up a new commission tasked with preventing irregularities in administrative acts. The move comes after an enigmatic series of poison-pen letters purportedly signed by the parliamentary speaker.

Subscribers only Politics

DRC
Secret details of SADC's decision to send troops to eastern DR Congo

Africa Intelligence has had access to a confidential document of the Southern African Development Community that details the thinking behind the decision, taken during the summit of the organisation's Troika on 8 May, to send a regional force to eastern DRC.

Subscribers only Defence

Chad
Fate of Griffiths Energy co-founder Naeem Tyab to be determined in August

A US court has set a sentencing hearing for 4 August for the co-founder of Griffiths Energy, whose company is suspected of paying $2m to Chadian officials to obtain oil permits.

Subscribers only Energy

West Africa

Mali
Malian junta fearful of ICC referral following damning report on Moura massacre

A Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) soldier in Ndaki in July 2019. © Benoît Tessier/Reuters

With the junta refusing to respond to the report on Moura, the UN human rights office has decided to go ahead and publish its findings on the 2022 massacre. These findings, and a possible referral to both the ICC and the ECOWAS Court of Justice, are of concern to Bamako.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Mali
AU chief Assoumani due in Bamako ahead of constitutional referendum

African Union chair Azali Assoumani is due to visit Mali in early June to see what measures have been taken to ensure that the constitutional referendum to be held there on 18 June is conducted properly.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
Gum arabic importers steel themselves for supply chain disruptions

Sacks of gum arabic ready for export in El-Obeid town at the state of North Kordofan in Sudan. © Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters

With Sudan accounting for 70% of global gum arabic production, leading international buyers are fearful of the repercussions of a prolonged conflict between Burhan and Hemeti. This rare natural resource is used in the making of Coca-Cola and certain cosmetics.

Subscribers only Commodity traders

Kenya
Kenyan diaspora counts on Ruto to relaunch university town project

A group of Kenyan professors, mostly based in the US, is pleased to see the current administration is extending a hand to move forward with a huge project to build a proper campus town in Kenya.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Angola
Kapose family, well-connected under dos Santos, thrives under Lourenço

Some politically well-connected Angolan families who were favoured by the previous government have boosted their businesses under the current presidency of João Lourenço. Silvestre Tulumba Kapose's clan, which is involved in the automobile and banking sectors, is doing particularly well.

Subscribers only Politics

North Africa

Morocco
Samir Goudar, president of Marrakech-Safi region, moves dam project ahead

Three engineering firms have been designated to carry out feasibility studies on six dams in the Marrakech-Safi region. The area has been hit hard with drought and is racing against the clock to build 16 reservoirs.

Subscribers only Infrastructure

Egypt
Curtain falls on billionaire Naguib Sawiris's French adventure

After paying off all debts and winning a legal battle, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has ended his business in France where he had hoped to relaunch hold mining with Cominor, a subsidiary of his holding La Mancha.

Subscribers only Finance, Mining

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