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Spotlight | Congo, Gabon
Bongo's high-stakes carbon gamble ahead of COP26

Moukalaba National Park, Gabon. © Quentin Hulo/Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect

Before the next round of climate negotiations, Gabon is attempting to revise the United Nation's method of calculating a country's carbon footprint with the goal of quickly selling its emission permits.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Central Africa

Cameroon
Perenco installs new MD in Cameroon to do battle with Addax/Sinopec

The French oil company Perenco has opted to promote a young drilling engineer to the top job at its Cameroonian subsidiary, one of its biggest on the continent.

Subscribers only Energy

DRC
Tensions at the top over Tenke Fungurume mine

Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge is furious that his government has no representation on the commission set up by the president's office to reassess the reserves of Tenke Fungurume Mining's copper mine.

Subscribers only Mining

DRC
EU court maintains sanctions on Kabila allies Numbi, Mutondo, Shadary and others

On 15 September, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dashed the hopes of eleven top Congo officials close to former head of state Joseph Kabila by refusing to annul sanctions imposed on them since 2016 by the European Council.

Subscribers only Politics

West Africa

Inner circles | Togo
Gnassingbé beefs up army to contend with pending threats

Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe inspects the army during a military parade celebrating the 55th anniversary of Togo's independence in Lome on 27 April 2015. © Xinhua/Zhang Gaiping/MaxPPP

Faced with a jihadist threat on Chad's northern border and with troops engaged in peacekeeping operations in Mali, Togo's head of state has spearheaded a major shakeup of the army and defence ministry's leadership to prepare for challenges ahead.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics

Guinea
Simandou, SMB, William Bourdon... UMS served a full plate

As it adjusts to post-coup Guinea, the local mining logistics provider UMS, headed by Fadi Wazni, is also facing an arbitration where the firm of French lawyer William Bourdon is representing a client who wants to regain control of a plane both parties are claiming ownership of.

Subscribers only Mining

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Sudan
ICC team on reconnaissance visit to Khartoum

A team from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was in Khartoum this week

Subscribers only Diplomacy

Southern Africa and islands

Mozambique
Nyusi launches his Security Council campaign

The only declared candidate for the African seat on the UN Security Council for 2023-2024, Mozambique is now looking to garner support in Europe.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy

Brazil, South Africa
Brazil's choice of Pretoria ambassador sparks diplomatic cold spell

Former mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella. © Tomaz Silva via Ulan/Pool / Latin America News Agency via Reuters Connect

Jair Bolsonaro has put South Africa in an awkward position. He hopes to curry favour with evangelicals at home by appointing the former mayor of Rio as his new envoy there. Pretoria is far from pleased but, instead of rejecting Marcelo Crivella outright, has chosen to run the clock down.

Subscribers only Diplomacy

North Africa

Tunisia
Washington maintains aid programs and security cooperation with Kais Saied

Although the Biden administration called on the Tunisian president to rapidly restore the country's democratic institutions in mid-August, it has continued to cooperate with Tunis on several fronts, not least via its MCC and USAID development agencies.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

Chad, Libya, Sudan
Mahamat Déby's Herculean labours to secure Chad's borders

Chadian Transitional Military Council (TMC) President Mahamat Idriss Déby (right) meeting with Vice President Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, in late August 2021. © Presidency of the Republic of Chad

The Transitional Military Council first secured the country's left flank by sealing a pact with Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum, and is now hoping to consolidate its western and northern borders in the face of the persistent threat of rebel attacks.

Free access Diplomacy

Morocco
Financial compliance expert Square Facts sets up shop in Rabat

The French firm Square Facts, which specialises in risk management and compliance, opened a subsidiary in Rabat in September.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

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