Newly established in the DRC, the insurance subsidiary of Frontier Services Group, headed by private security magnate Erik Prince has won a contract from Chinese conglomerate CNMC, which has extensive interests in the Copperbelt.
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Mining 
The Congolese judicial authorities want details of any property acquired by President Félix Tshisekedi's former right-hand man, Vital Kamerhe, in France.
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Politics Regime figures who had lost their official functions have been given well-paid jobs in return for promising to play a role in the presidential elections, in which Idriss Déby will be running.
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Energy 
Mauritania's top military command has been reorganised. Loyal supporters of the president have been brought in, with, among them, a number of former opponents of former head of state Aziz.
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Politics After obtaining the right to mine on two bauxite permits, Chinese-Guinean consortium AGB2A has sent a first 200,000-tonne shipment to China
Eight foreign power producers and Millennium Challenge Account Benin II (MCA-Benin II) are now days away from signing their co-financing deal delayed by the outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Obliquum, the French think tank created by a dozen LREM MPs and two five-star generals, is ready to tackle Africa's security matters.
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Business 
French major Total's Ugandan activities, which have come under attack from several environmental groups, will be examined afresh by a French court at the end of June. Total is about to become the sole major decision-marker on the Tilenga oil project and is behaving as if nothing was amiss.
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Energy 
Even though works are set to start in the coming months, President Andry Rajoelina is backing the Eiffage-led consortium into a corner, demanding negotiations be reopened into the price of electricity that the Sahofika dam will generate.
The European Union's shock move to blacklist Mauritius for money-laundering and terrorist financing has sent investors scurrying for other markets, spreading alarm across the island's financial sector. But if private funds are running scared, European public agencies, major clients of the offshore centre, seem less distressed by the Commission's judgment.
Since waving goodbye to the Furi diamond mine, Aldemiro Vaz da Conceição has focused his attention on distribution but is also keen to revamp the magazines published by his company Media Rumo.
After TTA, the public airliner that transports oil industry workers, was put under administration, Algeria's business elite began lining up to snatch a share of the highly lucrative contract. But TTA has now risen from its ashes to renew its fleet.
